I have heard better things on a more consistent basis about LG. I have heard really mixed things about Fisher Paykel both on Gardenweb and from other sources.

I love my Fisher Paykel fridge.

Donaleen- which fisher paykel do you have?

We have FP E522BRX. It is almost two years old. We replaced a somewhat larger fridge by cubic footage but I swear this one has more usable space. The shelves are completely adjustable and their brackets take no room.

I love how it looks. It has never given us any issues. And it just works like a champ. And it is quiet.

It has a lower energy rating than some but recently an appliance person (not anyone we bought it from) explained to me that it will last longer because of the compressor and how they use it. Apparently the high energy rating ones often cycle their compressors in such a way that they wear out faster.

Now having said all that, our FP oven gave us fits at first. It was a customer service nightmare. It turned out to be wired a little wrong (two wires were swapped). Once that was fixed, it's been great. I think in this day and age, customer service is generally difficult. Things are built more reliably but companies have cut their customer service to the bone so if you have a problem, it can be hard to fix. It took several service calls and endless phone time to get it fixed. Finally I got someone smart enough to figure out what was wrong.

We bought it from a local business, expecting that we would get better service from them. Not so. The service guy who fixed it said we would have been better off buying it from somewhere like Lowes because they would have swapped it themselves rather than making us deal with FP. He said bigger volume companies have more clout with the appliance companies. Sad, sad, sad.

Here is a link that might be useful: FP E522BRX

Donaleen- thanks for the info! That is the model I am looking at. How do you find the freezer? We generally don't use the freezer alot but is it too small?

We do fine with the freezer. I, too, was worried about the size.

Here is what we use it for: We make our own chicken broth (we make it in our five gallon pot but it only makes about 8 quarts or so) and we freeze it. I also freeze pie cherries and blueberries; enough for about 8 cobblers. We just made chicken broth and the cherry harvest is pretty recent so that pretty much fills the bottom drawer.

The rest of the freezer is some convenience foods (such as pot stickers), frozen veggies, ice cream, bagels, some other bread.

We don't freeze a lot of stuff. In the summer before we started making broth again and before the cherries came in, I actually froze several quarts of water just to take up the space (they say freezers work better full).

Once again, I think the freezer space works better than our old fridge even though it is smaller.