so, we need a new refrigerator for our kitchen upstairs. and if moving in an upholstered chair was challenging, imagine how difficult a refrigerator will be! mathew has been pushing for a smaller, 10.3 cu ft model and i’ve been pushing for a 15.5 cu ft model, both are energy star models. mathew said that if i created a life-sized model of the refrigerator and successfully moved it upstairs then we could buy the larger one.
my brother justin was in town and offered to make the refrigerator model for me.
as you can tell, we never made it up the stairwell. the 28″ width worked at the bottom but the 31″ depth wasn’t going anywhere. at one point we thought it might work if we took the doors off the actual fridge. luckily justin had the sense to measure at different points at the top of the stairs and found that it actually narrows as it goes up. nothing over 27″ was making it upstairs without a crane and removing the living room window…
so, this was a time-consuming but convincing way to decide on which refrigerator to purchase. and in the end justin saved us $260! (the difference between the two models.) thanks justin, for saving us time too!
know why i wanted a smaller refridgerator? memories of taking out the window on a sunday morning so that furniture could be delivered. not doing that with a ‘fridge!