If the fridge compartment light doesn’t come on, ensure the power cord is firmly plugged into the wall outlet and check for the light again.If the light comes on, the fridge has power and you can move onto other possible solutions. Here’s how to troubleshoot this common issue: Make sure your refrigerator has power.Ī power cord that has worked loose in its outlet or a flipped breaker will shut the entire fridge down. Depending on the cause of your fridge not cooling or freezer not freezing, the following tips might help. Check to see if the freezer is working but not the fridge, as it may only be the refrigerator compartment on the fritz. Fortunately since we have a cabinet over our fridge, I do not have to make these difficult styling decisions.Start by noting strange refrigerator noises like scraping, which might indicate a problem with the condenser fan. What do you think?Ĭheck out this fabulous post (with extra fridgeporn) from Nicole Balch of Making It Lovely for advice on how to style the top of your retro fridge. Seems to me thought that there is a huge gap in the market for some manufacturer to produce a nicely-styled colourful, CHEAPER fridge-freezer from scratch though. But once seen I had to have it, and we are delighted with its prettiness.Īnother Big Chill fridge in a finished kitchen I have to admit that it was a difficult decision to spend so much money on what is merely a tarted up $800 fridge – as it was being delivered up our stairs I was given a graphic illustration of just what we’d bought, as all the fancy panels were unscrewed and removed so it could get up the stairs. ![]() Very cute and expensive Elmira NorthStar fridgesīig Chill Fridges are based on Whirlpool white box fridges. ![]() Here’s a great discussion outlining the pros and cons of Northstar v Big Chill. We liked the look of the Northstars very much, but since they are imported from Canada they work out even more expensive than the Big Chill. It’s important to note that both these fridges and the Big Chill fridge we bought are just retro cases screwed on to a cheap white box fridge (Elmira uses Amana fridges) so they’re by no means state of the art when it comes to internal features. Since we definitely need a freezer, I searched for retro-style fridge freezers and came across NorthStar fridges made by Elmira Stove Works in Canada. This is criminal Smeg US! Get with the program! Smeg does manufacture bigger fridge-freezers which would have been perfect for us, but they are NOT available in the US. West Elm has started selling the small standalone Smeg fridge in a variety of gorgeous colours, but these are tiny even by European standards. But for some reason THEY ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE T TO FIND IN THE US. I had one back in London and they are so ubiquitous in the European design world as to have become a bit of a cliché. Wouldn’t it be fab if a fridge manufacturer could come up with an eye-catching contemporary fridge design?įirst of all I thought of getting a Smeg fridge. After a great deal of online research the following are the only interesting fridges I could find, all retro-styled. Sadly most fridges available here in the US are either white or stainless steel boxes – gigantically huge, fabulously functional in a way that European fridges can only dream of, and boring as hell. ![]() Our Big Chill fridge in a finished kitchen So that left the fridge as the only real possibility. Unfortunately our boxy rectangular kitchen has not a single architectural feature of merit, and it is difficult to create a wow factor out of cheap Ikea cabinets. I’m a firm believer that when you’re doing a room (or planning an outfit for that matter) that you should have one striking architectural feature, or piece of furniture or art (or clothing or jewellery) that acts as the focal point of the scheme, adds the wow factor and provides an anchor to build everything else around.
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