We have a 48 inch KA side by side built-in, probably 15 years old, so don't know it our experience can tell you anything but we have been happy with it. We kept it when we did the remodel as there was really no reason to replace it. KA has had many problems with ovens but their refrigerators and dishwashers seem to be pretty good.

I had a french door KA in our old house, which I hated! Another poster (nini) just commented on her new KA french door refrigerator. My old one was mechanically sound and we never had problems, but the functionality totally stunk (IMHO). When we did our new build, we went with KA again, but I went with the side by side and I LOVE IT!

Yup...totally agree with Brianadarnell...I put all KA in our new build because, well frankly I am not enough of a cook to warrant Wolf or Sub Zero anything :) AND growing up my family always had KA appliances that wore like iron. While I crazy love the 36" dual fuel and really like the DW, too...the fridge is eh. Way too small, I think I would have been better off with a side by side. Either my family just plain drinks too much milk, tea, soda, and juice (which could be possible) or this fridge is seriously lacking in areas to put large bottles. I have so many things laying on their side!

But now, I imagine it will run like a champ, never give me problems and I will be stuck with it until the end of time! I hear some fridge drawers clamoring to be put min my island!

We have a KA CD FD fridge. Very happy with it. I like that things don't get lost in the nether regions only to be discovered later when any hope of discerning what the green, fuzzy item used to be is a pipe dream. Okay, it wasn't quite that bad but there were many times when I would pull something out from the back and have to toss it because it was too old to eat.

We generally have 3 gallons of milk in the fridge, OJ and another juice but not much soda. We don't keep a zillion types of condiments on hand but I do have to have 2 types of soy sauce, etc, because I'm gluten free. We got the fridge when we were a family of 4, now down to 2 (just packed the last one off to college) but even when there were 4 of us, the only time I felt the fridge wasn't large enough for us was during the holidays when we hosted family meals. We used the plenty cool enough garage for short term overflow storage of pies and such.

I think it's a bit noisier than when we first bought it (almost 3 years ago) but certainly not as noisy as our old fridge.

HTH!

My old kitchen had a sturdy KA fridge. It was old, small, and had a top freezer (never again) but worked well. I choose a KA for the new kitchen. KA still makes a great fridge, and I would choose it over many other brands.

Have you tried posting your model number on the Appliances forum? Or running a search there? There are dozens and dozens of threads on fridges, including KA. Its well respected over there, too.

We have a KA french door, too. It is plenty roomy for the 2 of us, but if looking again I'd probably do more of a roominess comparison among brands because it's not the most space-efficient. We are very happy with the fridge performance, though.

i currently have a KA french door counter depth that has been installed for 6 years now. i will definitely not go this route again. the doors never close properly on their own (though the good thing is there is a door alarm that works very well). for my family of 4, the counter depth is just not enough space. Also, when the fridge is too full, things start to freeze and the water supply gets frozen so no more filtered water too.

We have a KA SxS built-in. We purchased and installed ours in late spring/early summer 207, right when the new models/design became available (we waited for it to come out). We had had two Whirlpool fridges prior, and were happy with them, so the KA was the closest thing to those. We liked the interior layout/shelving configuration the best of the ones we saw, and we really liked that the ice-bucket/dispenser is in the door, rather than in the freezer cavity itself (more usable freezer space it seemed to us).

Slight downside to the in-door ice bucket; during periods of really high humidity (for long stretches of time), there might be some dripping from/around the gasket/ice dispenser door. We still like this set-up though.

Lemons don't seem to keep too well in the bottom crisper, I keep meaning to store some in the upper one to see if they last any longer there, but haven't yet. I don't remember if they kept appreciably better in our old fridge or only somewhat better. Everything else stays fresh, and we haven't noticed any transference of food smells between the fridge and freezer compartments, nor in (on?) our ice cubes.

Curious to know if those who say that the CD model doesn't have enough room have water and ice in the door. We don't. I've never been a fan of this feature for many reasons, including the amount of valuable storage room that this feature takes.

We have a new counter-depth side by side Kitchen Aid, 72" tall. We're happy with it. We did not get the water / ice dispenser on the outside so we use a Brita pitcher in the fridge which takes up quite a bit of room. The ice dispenser is on the freezer door, inside.

We also have a beverage fridge where we've been keeping kids drinks, small water bottles etc.

For some reason the extra height seems to help quite a bit. Plus I think the taller fridge looks more substantial. I am glad we bought this instead of a built- in fridge. We have had a SubZero in the past and I don't think there was substantially more room. ( I'm sure the specs will say otherwise but that's just my opinion.)

Good point, cmm6797. Our fridge is also the 72" tall model.

We have a SS KA CD French Door no ice or water on door. It has an interior spout for water inside the fridge on the left hand side. It just has the one big drawer on the bottom. Our feeling was that it has drawers on the inside so why do I need them on the outside. The freezer would probably be kind of small for a family unless you have a secondary fridge but for just the two of us it's great. We do have a fridge in the basement for soft drinks, beer, bags of ice for summer entertaining. The KA is doing fine, no complaints except that if I had my preference I would like only one single door at the top because it would just be easier not to have to open two doors to find something, not a big deal but you have to be sure you close them both securely because it can be easy to not close them properly. I didn't want the ice on the door as I didn't want to sacrifice the interior space and it's just not a big deal. It doesn't make tons of ice and seems a little slow at it but it's adequate for us.

our CD french door model has one freezer drawer on the bottom and the french doors on top. The fridge part only has filtered water on the inside, not in the door. i don't think it takes up too much space as the water spigot is built on the side of the inside of the fridge. the fridge compartment is still too small however but the main annoyance is that it freezes all our veggies all the time. the ice maker is the kind that is just a bin that you have to scoop manually. It works great but it does take up a lot of space in the freezer. and the freezer is definitely too small so that we have to use an extra deep freezer in our garage.