25 years ago, you would purchase an Amana 21 or 23 cubic foot top mount refrigerator for your family. If you wanted an upscale refrigerator you bought a side by side. Then bottom mounts, French doors, double drawer French doors and now four as well as five-door refrigerators became popular.
Topics: Top Mount Refrigerators
by Danny Nguyen
Appliances are designed to follow cabinet sizes. The three most common cabinet widths are 36", 30" and 33", in that order. 30 inch is really the standard in most city apartments and smaller kitchens.
Topics: Top Mount Refrigerators, Bottom Mount Refrigerators, Refrigerators, French Door Refrigerators
Top mounts are a neglected category. My family had an Amana 23 cubic foot top mount when I was a kid. Now everyone is buying french doors.
Having a bottom freezer is more convenient for refrigerator access. You can, however, have more cubic footage in a top mount than any other configuration in popular 30 inch cabinets.
Topics: Top Mount Refrigerators, Frigidaire
This article will address the four largest top mount refrigerators in the industry. Top mount refrigerators have a freezer on top and refrigerator on the bottom. These refrigerators are the most economical but are not manufactured in counter depth sizes. If you are planning to replace your old top mount refrigerator or are remodeling on a budget these four refrigerators are Energy Star Certified and offer optimal storage space and high end features at a lower price.
Cabinet Sizes
Refrigerators (and appliances in general) are designed to fit within cabinets. The most common cabinet sizes are 30", 33" and 36" wide. The other less common sizes are 24" as well as 42" and 48" width. Top mount refrigerators are designed for the 33" and especially 30" widths.
Topics: Top Mount Refrigerators, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, KitchenAid, LG Electronics
Top and bottom freezer refrigerators are the least represented products. Manufacturers have focused on the more glamorous side by side, French door, integrated and professional categories. Part of the reason is more stringent energy efficiency standards. Most companies simply stopped producing products instead of reinvesting in new tooling to build new ones.
Topics: Top Mount Refrigerators, Bottom Mount Refrigerators, Frigidaire, Maytag, Amana
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