Meet RF28JBEDBSR... Our NEW Refrigerator!!!

That's right! We have ourselves a gorgeous shiny new refrigerator.
Well, almost.  It's paid for and just anxiously awaiting it's space in the Best Buy warehouse to come to it's new home-- once we close on the house!

Check her out:

I've gotta tell y'all- I never knew refrigerator shopping was going to be so stinkin' difficult!  If you remember, we've already had a bit of a "decision" made over what fridge we thought we wanted.  Check out that post here.
After lots of advise and comments on blogs and Facebook posts and Instagram posts, we decided we were going to look at a French Door fridge.  We were still hoping to stick with the Food Showcase style from Samsung because it's just such a neat feature.

Off to stores we went.
Home Depot.
Lowe's.
Menards.
HHGregg.
Best Buy.

I did internet research.  Lots of it.  Read the bad reviews. The good reviews.  Specs.  I made sure that everything would fit in our space {not sure if it's the same for all Milans, I kinda think it SHOULD be... but the measurements for the fridge "hole" are:  71 tall, 37 wide {this accounts for the granite being installed too} and 24 deep. All in inches}.

We debated counter-depth refrigerators.

We FINALLY found a Home Depot that had a counter-depth french door version of the Samsung Food Showcase.  They also had the regular Food Showcase French Door version as well.  So we walked back and forth and debated some more.  Looked at size and depth.  I even asked for some help from fellow bloggers and Instagrammers to show us their refrigerators in their Milans {Hi Meg :-)!!}  to see how much the fridge actually sticks out with a typical "regular" fridge.

We think we made a decision.  The french door option was a better choice over the side-by-side.  We also decided that we would get the "regular" one and not the counter depth one as we like the idea of having more room in the fridge.

So we then did research on warranties.  Which store had the best one?   My dad had opinions of Lowe's being the best.  Hubby prefers Home Depot.  Extended warranties were pretty identical for each one.  So it really came down to preference.

We knew we would buy a fridge by the end of the weekend.  Fourth of July sales have been really good for these particular refrigerators and we would be saving a great deal of money.  We even got in touch with our loan officer at NVR to make sure it would be okay for us to spend the cash on a new fridge.  That became a whole new battle, but the answer was yes.  I'll update y'all on that later.  It deserves it's own blog post.

And then we get an email from Best Buy.  They've sent us a coupon for 10% off one item.

Well then.  10% on nearly $2,000 saves us $200!  That's pretty much the price of an extended warranty!

So we educate ourselves on Best Buy's Geek Squad warranty information.
While doing that, I take note of another fridge.
I mention it to hubby and we start to deliberate.  Again.

This lead us to going all over Cincinnati trying to find at least 2 of these refrigerators we have been debating this whole time and compare them with this new one we are looking at.

We finally found one.  The same Home Depot we compared them at the first time.

And we made our decision.  Samsung Food Showcase RF28JBEDBSR is OUR refrigerator.

She's stainless steel.
She had french doors.
She has a food showcase door that you can open up just to get items out of the door.
She has a flex drawer that you can make different temperatures for whatever you put in that drawer.
She has her freezer drawer too.  So that's TWO drawers.
She's 27.8 cubic feet.  Non-counter depth.

You can check her out here if you want.

With the Fourth of July savings, this particular fridge was $1505 off.
Then we saved nearly $300 more with that 10% off savings {it even took money off of the warranty!}

I snapped some photos of the fridge when we were at Home Depot.  This is the black stainless steel version, so the color will be different but you get the idea ;-)

Food Showcase door.  One of the shelves is a drawer that you can pull out

Food Showcase door and pull out drawer

Food Showcase Door

Freezer Drawer.  Has the big fridge and the little drawer that rolls out on top of it.

Freezer Drawer

Flex drawer!  You can adjust the temperature on this drawer

Front of the fridge.  This one is the black stainless steel, and ours will be regular stainless steel.

We are so super excited!  Glad this is checked off our list and we are thrilled with what we picked!

Through our reviews, the only "bad" thing we really saw with any of these Samsung refrigerators is the customer service.
We kinda by-passed that by going with Best Buy.  The DAY our fridge is delivered, Geek Squad kicks in.  So we don't have to deal with Samsung.  YAY!
Kinda hoping we don't have to deal with warranty issues or any issues with the fridge... but you just never know!

Can't wait to update y'all on the house stuff from this week! There are some fun things!  We are heading out tomorrow to GoPro the progress.

But til then-- yay for refrigerators!