A sales person at a nearby appliance store, which carries many different brands, including kitchenaid, GE, subzero, viking, and others, recommended an electrolux fridge. It is stainless, bottom freezer,counter depth, french door, water and ice in the door. The shelves are a curved glass, which to me, seemed that it made for a separation of shelves instead of one long one across the width of the fridge. Anyway, he said that this is one fridge that he sells with little or no repair needs.

He also thought that the Electrolux electric range or the GE electric range were good-either. The electrolux range had these pull out oven racks... I thought they looked like a pain to take in and out for cleaning oven or rearranging for size of baking something.

As for a dishwasher, he recommended the Asko.

Anyone with experience with these appliances? I have been reading on GW, have been to Sears x2, have read recent consumer reports, and everything is so conflicting! I am especially having trouble choosing the fridge.

Consumer reports does not rate Electrolux bottom freezer fridge. For the side by side it is second to last. It is a fridge brand recommended for a built in style. ( I am not going this route)