Whirlpool Corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Whirlpool Corporation Whirlpool Corporation logo.svg Every Home⦠Everywhere⦠with Pride, Passion and Performance Type Public Traded as NYSE: WHR S&P 500 Component Industry Household appliances Founded St. Joseph, Michigan (1911) Founder(s) Louis Upton Emory Upton Headquarters Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States Area served Worldwide Key people Jeff M. Fettig (Chairman and CEO) Products Major and Small appliances Revenue Increase US$ 18.143 billion (2012)[1] Operating income Increase US$ 869 million (2012)[1] Profit Increase US$ 401 million (2012)[1] Total assets Increase US$ 15.396 billion (2012)[1] Total equity Increase US$ 4.260 billion (2012)[1] Employees 68,000 (2012)[1] Website www.whirlpoolcorp.com Showroom in Hong Kong Whirlpool Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor, Michigan.[2][3] The company is listed in Fortune 500 and has annual revenue of approximately $18.4 billion, more than 70,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Gladiator GarageWorks, Inglis, Estate, Brastemp, Bauknecht and Consul. After acquiring the Maytag Corporation on March 31, 2006, the Whirlpool Corporation surpassed Electrolux to become "the largest home appliance maker in the world."[citation needed] In the U.S., Whirlpool has 8 manufacturing facilities: Amana, Iowa; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Cleveland, Tennessee; Ohio: Clyde, Findlay, Greenville, Marion (and Ottawa).

I recently had the same predicament with my KitchenAid s/s. It is 15 years old and under normal circumstances I would replace it, but we are selling the house and don't want to spend a lot of money right now. We got an estimate on the repair for $1500 so we set out to research what a new one would cost. For something that would fit in the same space (it's a built in) the cost was at least $6000. We decided on the repair and the serviceman told us it was good for many years. It was completely rebuilt and has run great since that time. Only you can decide what your pocketbook can tolerate, but new b/I ref are really expensive and if you like your ref then I would go for the repair. Since I've had my house on the market, about 5 months, I've had a repair on my stove, my hot water dispenser died, my microwave died, and Friday my plumber told me we might need a new furnace! It's like it knows we're leaving and is getting even with us!

Thanks for your reply! I am curious about what kind of trim will be required between the units if I go this route. I'm meeting with our kitchen designer tomorrow and will bring subzero spec sheets, hopefully we can get an idea. Interesting that you say you like the look of them opening the same way, I'm glad! I've never seen an example but will try again to hunt down some photos. Thank you for the other suggestions as well - not sure about switching the two but I do have a little bit of flexibility and might be able to separate them. I also had another idea that struck me as genius for a moment - just get the 30" fridge and put the freezer separately under counter. Either a set of 30" drawers or a 24" unit. Everything will be panelled so doesn't have to be the same brand. Slightly less capacity but probably still sufficient given that I have another upright freezer in the garage, which is easily accessible. This would give me so much flexibility in my layout and look so much better! Then I remembered that my husband and kids consider an exterior water and ice dispenser to be absolutely essential (I could care less but they'll pull the plug on the entire reno if I try to negotiate out their water and ice!). As far as I can see, these only come on freezer units, not fridge. So now I'm researching water and ice units that I could build into a cabinet....

oh, ok, that's better. yeah, I'd incorporate the entire space and build up underneath the stairs. do a nook or desk area for the kids. why don't you look at 'built ins under staircase' ideas and look at all the pics? you could easily enclose that one side that steps down. bring up a wall and have all sorts of things. imagine this one wall going up to the stairs and now you have this enclose little bench/reading spot I'd probably remove the step up altogether and take it down level w/the floor. you'd still keep your step at the beginning of the stairs, but this one portion, make it like shown above this make sense? extra storage if you level that 'stage', then you could do something like this w/pull out drawers and a little play area so many cool ideas. but definitely remove the step-up