Lots of online retailers have installation guide pdfs posted on their sites (I've found that retailers do a better job of doing this than the manufacturers themselves!). For example, abt.com and ajmadison.com do this, but others do too. Use those documents to determine the specific space requirements your refrigerator will need.

Depends, I think, on whether you want to swing parallel to the exterior of the house or at right angles. At right angles unless the swing was at the very end of the porch, you'd need enough space to walk around it comfortably, and be eye sweet. If parallel I think 3 feet in front and the same behind, though you could probably get away with having one of those less. So figure with a 2 foot deep (front to back swing) you'd need a porch of 3+ 2+ 3 or eight feet. I think you could get away with 7, particularly if the swing was out at the end of the porch and you didn't have to walk past it to get somewhere. Nice to think about a porch swing on a day like today. It's in the teens here and I'm up on my porch roof trying to hang gutter! Tedious project, because every day I spend half the available daylight chipping the ice off the porch roof so I can move around safely and set the ladder to reach the second story fascia board. I hope in another day (two, at the worst), I'll be done. Then I can rip the blasted porch down ... I have been longing to do that for as long as I've lived here and finally wore my DH down. Porches have their places, I suppose, but not on my southern exposure! I'm hoping it won't take me more than a week to tear the 8 by 38 foot beast down. Molly~

Cloud_swift is absolutely correct about trees and shade around your home. Color is very difficult in my house because I am surrounded by trees and hills. I have a very tall, steep hill (small mountain) directly behind my house (east) covered in huge oak trees, plus a covered patio, so I get NO direct light in my kitchen...the lights need to be on ALL DAY. Because of this hill, it is around 10-11:00 am before I get the direct sun coming over the hill top and the tree line. I have large maples at each end of my house (north and south) that provide wonderful shade, but again, the end of my house that is slightly north-east gets very little direct sunlight. There are huge pines, spruce, etc in front of the house, which block the evening sun. I do get some nice direct south-west sun in the afternoon at one front corner (office and bedroom), Just to give you some examples: Beiges and tans look dirty/murky in my home. Golden tans look dirty (I tried Believable Buff - terrible - looks great in good light). I have a true soft butter yellow in my DR (front of the house) which is beautiful day or night. Greens look good in my home. I have the feeling the currently popular grays will not look good in my home. I have the feeling the blue-greens or green-blues will look good (thinking Sea Salt, Wyeth Blue, Quietude, etc). Have never used dark colors and don't care for them, but I believe they would "show" well. The point I am making here is the outside greenery and the shade SIGNIFICANTLY factors into my paint colors. Hope this helps also.

Depending on the shape of the swing seat but for most swings we allow minimum 3' in the back and 4' in the front