Our new fridge was installed today. The delivery came around 11am. Because our house is our house the fridge could not come in through the door closest to the kitchen. It had to come in the front door and then through the dining room and then into the kitchen. This meant that I had to remove the swinging door between the dining room and kitchen. I had no idea how to do this but I figured it out. I know the delivery guys were not thrilled to see the way to bring it in. But it got in.
Our house being our house again meant that the space where the fridge went was not plumb and level. When I removed the old fridge there was a set of shingles used as a shim. I had taken them out but when I put the new fridge int he space I knew I needed to put them back. Then when I did that I had to cut a board to put under the right front foot to level it out. I have not used an actual level but it is much more level than it had been and looks pretty straight in the space.
I did try and find a fridge that would allow us to open the doors to the cabinets above the fridge. No such luck, however I can cut the doors to the cabinet above so that they can be opened. I just need some time to do that. The space above is about he only space in the kitchen to really store oversized things that we do not use often like giant muffin pans that should be in an industrial kitchen and not in a regular home. We’d been storing them in the basement but I’m trying to clean up that space as well so upstairs is the better place for them.