New Kitchen Appliances

The only appliance the house came with was a white Kenmore range in the kitchen, so we had quite a few appliance purchases to make. I'm not going to make a post about our washer and dryer, but that was the first thing we bought. We chose an LG set in white. Since they were going in the garage it didn't matter what the finish was, but in the kitchen we wanted all stainless.

The space for a refrigerator is limited in our galley kitchen. As you can see below, there is no 'built in' area for one; the only space where it could go is against the wall on the right. At first we considered one with french doors, since that would provide half-sized doors that when opened wouldn't make the kitchen feel too tight, but the problem with most nice refrigerators these days is that they are HUGE.

We didn't want something big. Our eating habits do not include a lot of frozen or refrigerated foods that take up space, instead buying lots of fresh stuff which gets used quickly. We've always gone to the store every other day or so rather than once a week.

We started looking at shallow counter-depth fridges and liked the idea of those better, but then discovered and and ultimately decided on this even smaller European-style refrigerator that sits on a footprint of just over 24 inches deep/27 inches wide. It's also 6 feet tall:

The brand name is Summit. It's super efficient because the freezer is on the bottom. Everything in the upper fridge is easily accessible because it's all at waist height or above, so there's no bending over like in a traditional freezer-top version. There's even a built-in 5 bottle wine rack, which will always have at least one sparkling apple cider, one white wine, and one champagne chilling.

There are more shelves and two drawers not pictured, all equally sparse

And just today we got our new range. Since we had an existing one we were fine using for a while, it wasn't a priority. But with Thanksgiving next week and us hosting Nick's family the following week, it was time for that new one. 

Here is the old:

And the new: