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Top Freezer is going to be your basic, traditional refrigerator on the bottom freezer on the top. They're very good if you need to fit it into a smaller space because they do come in sizes that the others don't. Bottom Freezers are also going to be good for the smaller spaces. It's nice to have everything at waist level. French Door is going to be that same style with the freezer on the bottom, and it's just going to have two doors in the front. Usually the largest cubic feet you can get in a fridge is in a French Door. The really nice thing, though, is when you open those two doors you have everything right out in front of you. A side by side refrigerator is basically once side will be dedicated to the refrigerator and then once side would be dedicated to the freezer. For those people that 50% of their time is split between the refrigerator and the freezer. Counter Depth refrigerators are a little bit more shallow. It'll have a little bit more of a built-in look. So if you do have an island and you're trying to maximize your space that's where Counter Depth is going to come into play. When a customer is looking to buy a fridge, probably the most important thing they need to know is the dimensions. Once you have that measurement then you can kind of play with what the capacity is going to. Think of one cubic foot as a basketball. If you're looking at a 28 cubic fridge you say, oh, the 31 cubic [? fridge. ?] I really can't tell the difference. There's three basketballs extra that can fit in that fridge somewhere. It really all depends on what kind of lifestyle that you have. Whether you're a shop every day person, or a shop for the week or two weeks person. Do you entertain? That's also another important aspect. With any appliance, you always want to know that you've got enough space for it and enough space to get it into your house. The Door-in-Door refrigerator is pretty awesome. You actually just push a button on the front of the right door and it opens up to just that side. So you actually save a lot of energy because you're not opening the whole refrigerator up. I think probably one of the better things is a Dual Evaporator system. The benefits of that is you keep more humidity in your fridge and less humidity in your freezer. So it's going to keep your fruits and your vegetables lasting a lot longer. I think one of the coolest features on a fridge right now is the SodaStream function. You can actually get your sparkling water right out of your refrigerator.