Whenever we see a Smeg refrigerator in a kitchen, we're smitten. Maybe it's the vintage style, the rounded edges and long, horizontal handles. Or maybe it's the color—pale pink, baby blue, minty green, bright orange and red. So fun, so irresistible! Just makes us want to sidle up alongside it and listen to it hum. Tall, good-looking, AND it takes care of our food? Dream.
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YELLOW SMEG. I really want one, but they're not big enough to fit in the space we have in the kitchen for a fridge and it would look so awkward.
@Pi- time for a kitchen remodel around a smeg? ha ha ha!!!!
Ha! We just remodeled our kitchen and were so worried about the space for the fridge. It's already smaller than what most people have (18 cubic feet at the most, but twice the size of the Smeg!). We could honestly do with a smaller fridge anyway, but Smegs were so expensive that I didn't think it was in the cards. I'd love to have one if I could justify spending that much on a fridge, but I don't know that I ever could. My $800 Frigidaire is just going to have to cut it for a few more years :)
Good looks are one thing, but it's the character that counts: If it uses less than 200 kWh per year I start drooling.
Gorgeous but... no inside pics?
the white on that first fridge is completely wrong for the white of the space
Am I the only one put off by the fact that it says SMEG across the front? Not because of the branding, but yikes that's an unfortunate name...
I love them so much! My parents have one and every time I visit I stroke it softly ;) !
It's very cute, but I've been unfortunate enough to own Smeg appliances in the past (in Europe), and never would again.
On top of that, let's look at the specs: $1,999 for 9.2 cubic feet of space and no real freezer, just a compartment—the 2 door model is not available in the US. FWIW, it uses 305kW of electricity a year, which is less than most US refrigerators on an absolute basis but more on a per-foot basis. (You can buy a 22 cubic foot GE bottom freezer using 400kW a year.)
Big Chill does a very similar look, the refrigerators are available in three sizes, and you also don't have to look at that unfortunate name.
Lol, that was the first thing I thought, too...
The first fridge is pastel blue.
I too love the lines, proportions, and curves of the SMEG. The kitchen is a nurturing place and its appliances feel more comfortable with curves. Unfortunately all the newer more efficient refrigerators are born into unattractive square bodies. Maybe we should give technology another year to catch up to the art necessary to warm a kitchen.
As a Red Dwarf fan, I cannot help but smile every time I see one of those fridges with THAT WORD emblazoned across the front.
I love the yellow and red one. Ohhh dreammmm....
The red one is calling to me...I want it soooo much!
I'm with AlexisRT. We live in the UK and have a bright blue SMEG refrigerator. I *love* the way it looks (all the kitchen cabinets are made to match the refrigerator), but in reality, the freezer is too small to be of much use, and at least in the one we have, you have to defrost the freezer by hand. Not fun. Although I love the look of our current kitchen, I won't be buying a SMEG when we return to the US.
Me? I'll never give up my French door fridge... And, as other people have noted, the name does tend to make me gag.
Ooooh that's a beautiful fridge!
I think the fridge is baby blue?
SMEG refrigerators are completely geared to the European way of life: keep a few staples on hand and buy fresh only what you are going to eat in the next 24-48 hrs. Unfortunately their smaller capacity doesn't work for our superstore bulk buying habits here in the suburban United States. Plus, the freezer couldnt hold 1/3 of my seasonal fishing catch. If I had the luxury of shopping daily, I would love a SMEG refrigerator. As it is, I go once a week for our family of 4 and we have a 2nd refrigerator in the garage for overflow...
If you want to see something beautiful, look at SMEG ranges. I bought a 36" dual fuel model last year and love it! It's by far the best bang for the buck in its class.
Ummmm, sorry. If it isn't frost free with a usable freezer compartment I'm not interested. It reminds me of some of the "vintage" equipment I had to live with as a graduate student in Mexico in the 1960's. Not fun and definitely not sexy. And, as others have said, that name is a deal breaker.
Don't like the word - Smeg?
There is an alternative called...
The Big Chill
http://www.cookingatcafed.com/2008/10/if-i-had-cold-hard-cash.html
~ Dana
The problem with having the word "SMEG" across the front is that the brain automatically wants to finish the word into something else. Thank you design psychology or ruining this fridge for me.