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I'm late in commenting here...but if you're still in need of an in-drawer knife block, we custom make them (as well as drawer inserts) and ship them to you. These are inserts that are sized for and placed into your existing drawer.

Our online design wizard walks you through the design and ordering process.

Let me know if you have any questions.

-Bethany

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I have a tall liebherr frig, biodraws with two drawer freezer on bottom. It's about 2 years old now. I'm 5'2 so it took some getting used to the tall space. But I really like this frig. It's bright, and I actually found that I can see stuff on the top shelf because of the glass shelving and the height angle. In the other frigs, stuff just got lost in the back which ended up spoiling. I do need a step stool to access the top shelf, and also the controls on the top. We also live on and island, so keeping produce and veggies fresh was a big challenge with our other frigs.

Pros:

1. love! love! the fact that I can keep my fruits and veggies way beyond their normal shelf life in the biodraws. Strawberries and lettuce, baby greens will last at least 2 weeks. My prior frigs, I would have moldy, wilty stuff within a few days.

2. the no frost is a lifesaver. No more frosted stuff in my freezers. In fact I had completely forgotten about that, and when we had a service call, I asked the tech how to defrost the frig.

3. Cleaning is really easy, both in the main frig and freezers

4. Cleaning the vent is incredibly simple too. Easy to remove and a quick wash.

Cons.

1. Poor, poor door design. In my frig you are suppose to lay your soda/water/wine bottles ontop of the bio draws (there are shallow indents to keep them from rolling). But when you do, you can't shut the door, because more-often-then-naught the bottles are too long. My guess is because the frig is european in design. When in Europe I've noticed that most beverage containers are smaller/shorter. Unfortunately here in the states, they are just to big to fit. So I really can't fit wine or soda bottles in the frig at all. We have a basement frig for additional supplies and that's where they go.

2. Poor, poor door design. The shelves in the doors are roomy, but when the door completely shuts they jut into the shelving space in the main part of the frig. about an inch. So the door will pop open, because the stuff on your main shelves (which are not hanging out) will interfere with the stuff on your door. I find I cannot fully utilize the door space because of this.

3. Poor, poor door design. The shelving brackets on the door also are not very tall, so taller jars tend to fall over whenever you close or open the door.

So if it weren't for the doors I'd really, really have nothing to complain about!

If you do get a Leihberr, I recommend having a professional Leihberr install. We had our contractor, and he was somewhat confused with the European directions, and didn't quite adjust the door properly. It kept popping open slightly after it was heavily shut (as kids tend to do) and when we had a repair this summer the tech pointed that out to us. Now the door shuts perfectly even when slammed.