Our refrigerator died. I tried to revive it, but my handyman skills have been well documented on this blog.
Manina now understands my ineptitude and called an appliance repairman. But, when the seasoned professional arrived, he gave us the same diagnosis: this fridge is dying, get a new one.
Yay! Shopping for appliances is so much fun. Blech.
We spent an hour or two looking at Costco, Lowes, and Home Depot. We settled on one but decided we should go home and measure one more time just to triple check our measurements. It was a good thing we did.
What started out as a pretty simple (although expensive) home project now turned into something more like the projects we are used to seeing: a nightmare. You see, our space was the correct width and depth, but nearly a full inch and a half too short. Somehow our cabinets were made just wrong enough that none of huge models we were considering would fit. So, time for more shopping.
We learned that we could get a model that fit our height requirements, but it wouldn’t be nearly as efficient, it would be a lesser brand and model, and it would cost us $600 more than the previous model we’d decided on. At this point, we discussed altering our cabinetry, but that lead to even darker places, so we quickly squashed that idea. We bit the bullet and purchased the fridge meeting our height requirements.
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