French Door Refrigerator Opinon

I have the freezer on bottom, I will never go back. I wish the french doors were an option when we bought it but the next one will have them.

I have the freezer on bottom, and I like it.

A friend had the french door style and didn't like it because she often couldn't fit large things in, such as pizza boxes, etc. But if you don't foresee putting in large items, it will probably be okay.

We had a side by side in our old house but moved in oct and the new one has French door fridge on top of drawer freezer. I miss the old one. I feel this is a very awkward set up and would not get another.

I have a standard side-by-side fridge and love having all the shelves to work with in the freezer.

ETA: gotta say I do have a "downstairs" fridge so I don't "have to" wedge everything into my bottom freezer.
And the O. thing I don't like about the ice on the door is the small ice bin. I miss my top freezers ice machine!

Don't have that model/brand but I love my french door fridge!

My cousin has a French door in her beach house and liked it enough to buy one for her full time house. I've frequently used them and will get a French door fridge when I replace mine.

There is more storage space which is easily accessed.

I like it, but you do lose a little space in the freezer. If you are a bulk shopper, sometimes you have to take things out of the box and squeeze them in where you can.

My MIL has one and I want one so bad! There's nothing wrong with our fridge, but we keep looking whenever we're at Sears or Home Depot or anywhere that has fridges. It's just such an expense when we don't really NEED it yet.

We have the double door on the top and freezer on the bottom and hate it (it was not our choice--we moved and the new house came with that style fridge)! The water dispenser won't work if any door is open, you can't stand a wine bottle up in the fridge, and the freezer is always a disorganized mess! You also can't open the deli drawer without opening both fridge doors. We loved our old side by side (freezer on left and fridge on right).

I am really happy with the French door style. It is a lot easier to find things in the fridge since you can spread stuff out more. The drawer-style freezer is ok. It isn't really any easier to find stuff, but it isn't any harder either. We have a Samsung model that is fake stainless steel - looks really but it's actually a magnetic surface.

LOVE the top part of the French Door fridge. Spacious and easy to access everything.

Not in love with the drawer freezer. The freezer is like a bottomless pit. I can't begin to guess what's at the bottom of our freezer because I can't see it (and we clean through it periodically; things just fall to the bottom). Also, we often have to cram things down in there to get the drawer to close. I miss my traditional fridge for the easy use/easy see top freezer.

Wanted one. Loved the look.
Instead we opted for the regular.
Thank heavens because all of my friends have the other ones & I hate
getting stuff out of them or helping them put stuff away.
You can't see what you have in the freezer because it's all piled on top of
each other.
Also, whenever you're putting things bk into the fridge, the other door
either has to be open or slams shut on you. You can never see all that you have in the fridge.

Love my french-door fridge! It took some getting used to, but I can fit all kinds of goodies in there. I have a slide-out shelf option in mine and it's really convenient.

Hope the remodeling goes well!

I don't like mine. Love the top. But the stuff in the bottom gets jumbled up and is hard to just grab.

I have a GE French door and it has some features I like but several that I don't. In your remodeling, placement is important. Mine actually sits next to a wall, so the door on one side will not open far enough to easily pull out the veggie drawer. I have a water dispenser inside the refrigerator, my choice as I did not have space to have larger fridge with one in the door. Unless I need something out of the door, I usually have to open both sides to get what I want. It came with a soda can dispenser rack, but it took up way too much room from needed refrigerator space, so it is not used.
When my mother was living with me, she was too short to reach or see The top shelf, so had to place items for her on lower shelf.
The freezer on the bottom has wire basket and small items or ice cubes fall and then can't be reached beneath the drawer.

My old refrigerator was top freezer and was the best storage of any I had ever seen and the new ones are nothing like that in quality or space. My old Magic Chef fit in the same space as the new, but new one has about 3 cubic feet less of storage. I had to buy a separate freezer because I couldn't get 1/3 of the items into the new one.

My son and daughter in law have a larger one with a drawer in the middle large enough for serving trays, but theirs also sits next to the wall, so opening the doors, it is sort of crowded. The freezer is not very user friendly and one has to did through several layers to get to the bottom.

Ideally, I would position the fridge with room to swing doors completely open.
Good luck.

I have a French door fridge with a double drawer freezer (had one up north with a single door freezer and hated the freezer).

I mostly like not having to bend over to get stuff from the fridge since I am in there more then the freezer. The shelves are adjustable and I can fit tall or long items (like a sheet cake or tall bottles).

I have a French door refrigerator, and I love it. I sometimes have a tough time getting something from the back of the top shelf, since I'm short, but it's really not that big of a hassle. And I love the freezer on the bottom. It holds more than you think, and you can really see everything well too.

Have one. Love it. Get it! I have had mine for 9 years, when they first started coming out. I am in the freezer maybe once or twice a day, in the fridge about 100 times. It is convenient and ample storage for large items. I can see everything. The freezer I don't have a problem with. I keep meat and bread on top shelf and frozen veggies on bottom. I have little inserts I put in like rectangular Tupperware on the bottom basket that keeps things neat and handy. Mine is a Maytag and it is great!

I love the freezer on the bottom.

BUT some of the things I figured out while shopping was that I don't like the mesh drawers in the bottom. Stuff falls out. I like solid drawers. I do like the pizza slot in the front. It sure makes having frozen pizza on hand easier.

I also like having the top that opens up completely. It makes it easy to see everything and clean back in the corners.

I also like having the options of moving the shelves and drawers around.

My daughter had a double French door LG and she likes it.
The inly thing she misses us the ice/water dispenser which she was used to at home.

No issues with her freezer area.

I get that the freezer issue might be on the target list for a family. Our daughter does not use her freezer like a family would so I can't answer to that. Overall, she loves the French doors and when I need to replace my kitchen aid... I may well consider it!

Good luck

I love the top double door refrigerator. Love it. The drawer freezer isn't that wonderful (though should be a little more energy efficient since cold is on the bottom)... but I don't think it is any "worse" than a top freezer. No refrigerator/freezer is going to have the amount of freezer space that would make me happy. Only having an additional stand alone freezer (in the garage) can do that. You really can't buy anything in bulk without that extra freezer.
I will say that compared to a regular side by side (which is what we had before and in a rental) that the freezer is better. It is no more difficult to tell what it is in it than those things are, and you have wider space for things like frozen pizza.
I can't speak to the Samsung brand. I've heard people bash some LG and some Samsung products based on needing expensive electronic repairs to them early in their life cycle... but I can't remember which appliance was which brand. We have a Kenmore Elite and have been using this one since 2006 with zero problems.
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Hadn't thought about wall placement, but I can see where that might be an issue... not unlike a standard side by side. Ours is on a small wall in a cabinet built for it. Either side is open (door way to laundry and entry into the dining room. So the doors can open out as far as I need them to. However, I rarely need to open BOTH doors to get things I want/need. Only if I want something from the meat drawer (the full width drawer at the bottom where I can put serving trays if I needed). All the interior shelving is adjustable, so I have beverages on a high shelf and on a low shelf. You can configure it all sorts of ways.... I could even put my two bottom shelves up at an even height so that I could use that whole space across the bottom for platters if I needed to. (I might need to clean the fridge out first, to make room! LOL) And several shelves are pull out shelves, so I can reach the backs.