The day of the delivery was bittersweet.  After over a month of fetching milk, butter, cheese, eggs, leftovers, and such from the garage fridge, we were going to have a working refrigerator in our kitchen again.  That was the sweet part.  The bitter part was knowing  I would no longer have a built-in fridge that blended in seamlessly with the cabinets.  When designing our kitchen, one of the things I wanted most was hidden appliances.  Aside from the range, that would be a feature.  I worked on configurations and cabinet options to ensure that even countertop appliances like the toaster, electric kettle, and microwave were behind closed doors. I knew that a panel-ready fridge that wasn’t a standard size would likely be a headache when it needed replacing, but I figured we wouldn’t have to deal with that for many years.  Three years later, the fridge is completely dead, and