FRIDGE FREEZERS BUYING GUIDE

When it comes to designing the space for your fridge freezer, you need to think about how you like to move around the room. It will be important to make sure your kitchen and appliances work with you. Things you need to consider are:

Consider your cabinetry

With your fridge freezer, you need to ensure it fits within the cavity you have allocated for it, and it needs not to be a tight squeeze as each fridge freezer has its own ventilation or breathing space requirements.

Kitchen triangle or work zones

When planning the layout of your kitchen, you need to think about how you want to work, whether it be collaboratively or together. You can look to having a kitchen triangle or work zones configuration, and ultimately it comes down to the space you are working.

Work zones have it broken up into five zones: consumables, non-consumables, cleaning, preparation and cooking zones which is the best layout for working with someone else. If your space is smaller, you should consider a kitchen triangle which your fridge freezer, cooking appliances, and sink/dishwasher creating a triangle as if a line is drawn to link them together.

Purpose of your island bench

Whilst the position of your island bench does not have an enormous impact on your fridge freezer purchasing decision it is still something to consider when moving platters and other ingredients in and out of your fridge freezer. 

Lifestyle

Lifestyle considerations may be things such as whether you need a large freezer space, high energy efficiency or a particular configuration such as a freezer on top or bottom.

Household Size

Whether you are living in a family home or with housemates, the amount of people in your household will affect what is ultimately the best fridge freezer capacity for you. If you are on the fence about whether to go bigger or smaller, we advise you to go a little bit larger than you think as you will always at different times of the year start storing more food than expected.

Does it fit in your hallways and doorways?

You need to consider how much space you need to safely deliver your fridge freezer into its new home, measure the clearance before you buy.

What way does it need to open?

Whilst selected fridge freezers can have their doors reversed; it is essential to consider what way you need to have your fridge freezer door open, which could be limited by cabinetry and walls.