Appliances for your own homes - what do you like?

[Bruce Woodruff]

We are going to replacing our appliances in a house we just bought. Well almost all of them, the refrigerator is brand new and works great. It's this model LG. So I typically like to buy from the same brand so everything kinda matches (in my mind) so I'm looking at LG. But what do you guys like nowadays. I've never had LG but I'm very impressed by this fridge, it is so much better engineered than our last few brands. But what are you buying for your own homes that is kinda sorta high-end? The existing stuff is all Jenn-Air, don't like it at all...

[Bruce Woodruff]

Quote from @Bill B.:

I only hear bad things about LG and Samsung. That being said I buy LG and Samsung 90% of the time. The good news for you is the worst stuff they make is refrigerators. (Usually it the ice makers failing and costing more than 60% of a complete replacement. Or a super thin shells that vibrate whenever the compressor kicks in.) In stoves I usually go one up from the cheap ones. (You'll see the grates are much thicker than on the cheap ones.) dishwashers (even though we use it once a month or less.) we simply go with the quietest cheap one. If you need laundry as well, the wife prefers top loaders to prevent the smell that so often accompanies the front loaders. (Though our newest home has an ADU where the laundry is stacked, a first for us. We went with the LG wash tower though we considered the GE all in one unit, it wasn't in stock.)

If you decide to buy a fridge we bought the LG with 2 ice makers and 4 kinds of ice and really like it. 

Congrats on the new house. 

Thanks for the input, Bill....I had always heard good things about LG and Samsung :-)

Our last house had the high-end GE line (Slate Series or something) and they were ok.... The Fridge was the weak spot to be honest, but stove and DW were awesome.

Frankly the worst reviews I heard from actual users were from my clients that I built for. Being super wealthy they all had to have Wolf or Sub-Zero or some ridiculously priced appliances ($15,000 fridges and the like). These were constantly having problems and I got the calls. Same story from my Home Inspector friends... they were sure pretty though...