The Latest in Refrigerator Trends

The Latest in Refrigerator Trends

modern refrigeratorRefrigerators are an extremely common household appliance; it’s not very often that you would come across someone who doesn’t have a fridge in their home. Most people are just happy to have a refrigerator that works well and keeps their food cold, but recently there has been an increase in people buying refrigerators to match their decor or wanting smarter fridges that do more than just cooling your food.

A popular style was the side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, but these have gone down in popularity, and now trending are freezer-on-bottom fridges and even separate refrigerators, especially for wine. We take a look at what other trends are taking the refrigerator world by storm.

What’s Trending in Refrigerators?

You can never go wrong with white
White will always be an on trend color for fridges. It’s a neutral color that goes with everything, so if you are one for changing your decor quite often, a white refrigerator will always fit in.

Staying neutral but adding some color
White fridges aren’t for everyone; some people can find it too stark of a color. If you want a neutral colored fridge, but don’t like the thought of white, then try cream, beige, or gray. These colors are all still very neutral and won’t have trouble toning with most decors. Although black is not classed as a neutral color, it’s still a color that’s sleek and can blend in well with a lot of decors.

Colorful fridges
Bold decor is becoming quite popular in modern kitchens and even brightly colored appliances are making an appearance. If you are buying a colored refrigerator to match your colorful kitchen, make sure you aren’t following a trend that’s going to die out quickly. Refrigerators are expensive, so unless you’re going to buy a new fridge every time you redecorate, just remember that a colored refrigerator means all of your future decor will need to be based on this color.

Freezer-on-the-bottom refrigerator
Side by side refrigerator-freezers are still a favorite style within many households, but they have recently been going down in sales, making way for the new up and coming trend of the freezer-on-the-bottom style refrigerator.

Point of use refrigerators
These days, refrigerators don’t have to be one big single unit. It’s becoming popular for homeowners to have customized separate refrigerators for different things. You can pretty much have these units installed anywhere you want, even in your bathroom.

Wine Cooler
A trendy point of use Refrigerator”>refrigerator to have is the wine cooler. Wine may need to be stored at a different temperature to the food stored in a big unit refrigerator, so having a separate cooler especially for the wine ensures that your wine is kept at the correct temperature.

What does the future hold for refrigerators?

Technology gets more clever every day, but who would have thought that fridges would be something that would become ‘smart.’ Samsung has recently brought out a new refrigerator called the ‘Family Hub Smart Fridge.’ Apparently this is a gadget that can change our lives at home, but what does it do to make it ‘smart’?

Inside Camera
This new fridge has a camera inside it, which takes photographs of the inside of your fridge so you can see what you have inside and whether you need to stock up. You can access these images no matter where you are, as they can be viewed using a smartphone or tablet.

So, if you’re being lazy and don’t want to walk to your fridge, you can see if there’s anything in your fridge worth moving for. The camera can be helpful though if you’re out at the local shop; you can check what you have in stock, so you know what groceries you need to pick up.

Touchscreen
There’s a touchscreen installed in the fridge that’s pretty much like a tablet. There are many features this refrigerator can perform from its touchscreen. To name a few; you can listen to music, look up recipes and you can even order your groceries from an app.

You may wonder why it’s called the ‘Family Hub Smart Fridge.’ Well, the large touchscreen allows the families to write notes, post photos or artwork done by the children and have a family calendar that everyone can update. You don’t need to be an appliance expert to see why this would be such a big hit for large families.

These fridges come at quite a cost, $5000, so it’s unlikely they’ll become a mainstream hit, but we are sure to see more smart fridges like this in the future. We wonder which of these refrigerator trends will make it big in San Antonio.

By |2019-07-23T16:07:35+00:00May 2nd, 2016|Appliance Repair|0 Comments

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