Subzero, delivered!
From my last refrigerator post, I removed the sentence: we bought a floor-model subzero.
It had not yet been delivered, and we weren’t 100% certain we would actually get it… and right before I hit publish, I thought– you know what? LET’S NOT JINX MYSELF.
I did not edit well, and my re-write sounded like I thought my only option was to spend many-times the cost of my original-but-now-scorned-frugal-fridge… that is not what I intended to convey.
The storage/warehouse for the Philadelphia Wolf showroom, (where we were introduced to induction), is also the distributor for all the places (in whatever radius) that carry Subzero; and because they were moving to a bigger warehouse, any floor models at the warehouse (not to be confused with the showroom) were HALF OFF the already discounted price.
The warehouse also had a floor-model Wolf induction cooktop, in the below style… and the price was great! But the brand new ones come WITHOUT that stainless “frame.” And I like it better without; even if we do not flushmount it into the counter.
So we passed… maybe I get to kick myself later for that.
Anyway.
You can imagine we were SUPER excited that they had the fridge we wanted! And also how the fact that it was ON HOLD for someone else, was nailbiting!
We had to wait to see if they took a different one… which they did, or we would have taken one with two lower drawers and slightly less interior cubic feet.
We paid a little over $3,000 including delivery.
I think $3k is a lot of money for a refrigerator… but the transformation to our particular space and kitchen layout; and also my personal obsession with the height-factor makes it worth the money to us.
You know when you go to crop a photo and you can choose the aspect-ratio? That is what I’m trying to describe… that taller/narrower ratio will mirror the height of the window next to the refrigerator. And theoretically, we’ll be able to create molding and panels for the fridge that are complementary to the window trim.
We took a tradeoff: the floor model fridge we bought is right-hinge, and we would have preferred left… either way, the door blocks the same space; but situated differently in the work triangle.
It was a simple decision… for us.
But! I fully understand that this is high school the internet, and I will be derided by some faction of popular-girls hinge-experts who will announce my impending demise because DID YOU SEE WHAT SIDE HER FRIDGE HINGES ON?
I know: I am a scandalous loser of tremendous proportions.
Turns out I’m fine with that.
This is not its home… but Paul is away and we did not know when delivery would be and failed to move stuff before he left blah blah blah.
In case you missed it, HERE is where the fridge has been moved to!
April 3, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
I don’t know if Sub-zeros do this, but every cheap fridge we’ve ever had could be switched for the hinge direction. Congrats on your new fridge either way!
April 3, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
OMG THAT’S A STEAL!!! We paid that much for our deep LG fridge less than 2 years ago & that was with an amazing sale through sears. I’m super jelly now :-/….great find!
April 6, 2018 @ 2:48 pm
Woo hoo!! My kitchen and I are verrry, verrry envious.
The real question is: There was a giant, fancy, heavy, sort of shiny thing being moved into the house, – how did Paul manage to avoid the heavy lifting?
April 12, 2018 @ 11:34 pm
Hello Victoria! Have Paulcheck the top and under the door area to see if he can remove the pins that hold the door on your refrigerator. As much money as you paid, you should be able to make it a left or right swinging door. Our last refrigerator we had to pop the pins and switch it.
Looks great so far! Been a while since I’ve visited so I’m looking forward to reading all the kitchen posts.
December 22, 2020 @ 10:39 am
We went through a similar process for our new build/kitchen as we originally planned to get a scratch/dent fridge and paint or fake-panel it until we could swing a SZ (for which we would have reserved adequate wall space). But as I wanted a a)cabinet-depth b)French door model with c)NO water/ice dispenser and d)completely FLAT doors for my husband (who is also quite handy) to panel them, and such did not exist at the scratch/dent stores (or on Craigslist), AND we didn’t want to pay $3,000 for a fridge we’d be replacing in 10 years…we opted to take the plunge and buy the 42″ French door Sub-Zero (Why must one buy separate columns to have 48″ of fridge, if the doors would still be 24″ wide??). We did not however score a floor model but paid full price…but I do take comfort knowing that we found a used Speed Queen w/d set (which may well still give us another 20+ years) for $500 instead of $2,500. One red flag for me on a floor model fridge might have been, did it still come with a warranty?
I was somewhat aware of the “disposal” mentality surrounding livestock with inconvenient sexes…the males of dairy cattle breeds are also slaughtered shortly after birth because they obviously can’t give milk and their meat is not considered suitable for steaks, apparently. But as I am not a vegetarian the alternate solution I see is to buy meat, dairy and eggs as locally as possible and be aware of the farm’s practices. The farm where I buy beef and raw milk raises one breed of cattle – the females for milk and the males for meat, simple as that. I buy eggs literally around the corner from where our house is being built, and I’ve met their chickens and watched them run around their grassy enclosures and roost in their little open roost-houses. They don’t hatch their own chicks, so I don’t know about the practices of the actual breeders the farmers buy chicks from. I know roosters do present problems as they bully the hens by standing on them and plucking out their feathers, as well as sometimes being aggressive toward their caretakers. But one would think they could be raised separately for food rather than discarded as chicks…Maybe some breeders do this, or at least something better than blending them alive. But imo endorsing local businesses with humane practices will effect more change in the industry than boycotting it altogether.