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We've been asked by the team at Servis to gather your ideas for what would make your perfect family fridge - share your top needs/ desires below and you'll be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £100 JL voucher.

So, what's the perfect design? What colour should it be? How many shelves? What special storage does it need? What else should it do? Is bigger always better? What about environmental factors?

Servis say: "We would love you to tell us how you would design your fridge, from a great piece or art to the outright crazy, let us hear how creative you can be! We look forward to reading your best ideas"

Servis are soon to be running a special competition on Facebook to win the fridge of your choice "giving you the opportunity to win a fridge exactly the way you like it. Fancy having your child's favourite drawing, your best photo or just a unique design...well you can. And don't worry, if you like our fridge freezers just the way they are then that's fine too" keep an eye out for more info.

Please note comments from this thread may well be used on the Servis pages on MN.

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Oh I also want notso's suggestion of a wine dispenser

I forgot one thing on my ideal fridge/freezer.
I want a built in DAB radio with a credit card sized remote I can use to turn it up/down/off etc... (but it also needs buttons on it so I can still do it when I can't find the remote.)

There's so many things wanting sockets in my kitchen I'd love to have a radio built into something & the fridge sounds like a good place!

Id like a better choice of colours, so along with black, white and silver add red, blue and orange.

I like a double fridge. One side a larder fridge and one side a freezer.

Inside should be very smooth and easy to clean. No corners, rounded off so no crumbs can collect.

An ice cube maker built in to the freezer would be great.

An egg drawer is good, helps prevent eggs from breaking.

Id also like more drawers or compartments in the fridge so the fridge can be more organised. A place for dairy such as cheese and yogurts. A fruit drawer at the top of the fridge to help fruits stay unbruised. A separate meat compartment.

On the freezer sides, not just 6 big drawers. It's take too much time to find things. Id like a rotating carosel storage system. So I could spin it round and see everything easily.

A clear temperature gauge in degrees.

Lots of drawers
lots of options to reconfigure the space
Nie wide shelves on inside of doors
I'd like a narrow freezer, or maybe oe that you access from both sides, so that you don't have to pull out all the freezing cold food onto the kitchen floor t get to something at the back

I don't really care for gimmicky colours etc and I dislike integrated appliances

The selling point for our fridge was its beer door - it was hubby's 'thing' however having had it and used it for milk too it is great when making a drink you don't have to open the fridge which wastes energy.

A vegetable/salad draw is very important. Shelves which have plenty of levels you can adjust to.

I'd like clear plastic drawers in the fridge like you have in a freezer - perhaps two across the width.

at the moment things get piled up and fall over and aren't easy to put into categories. It would also retain any leakage to one area.

A beep if the door is accidentally left ajar is handy.

An ice cube drawer in the fridge part of the fridge-freezer would be handy rather than having to open up the freezer below.

Perhaps having a small spinning carousel on one shelf would help retrieve small items like sauce jars or a pull out shelf for the same.

Sliding shelves like my Bosch one BUT with door shelves too in traditional styly. Plus Tardis button.

I'd like a freezer part bigger than the fridge part! It's so hard to even search on this in appliance shops.

Drawers instead of a door on the freezer part. Ideally two narrow larder pullouts instead of a fridge door and shelves, actually.

I'd LOVE to have a barcode scanner hooked up to my shopping list on Ocado, so once something is finished I can just swipe the packaging and order it again.

A built in iPad-type tablet on the door at eye height would solve loads of my kitchen wants: could put the radio on or iPlayer, Skype, Mumsnet bring up recipes, keep a shopping list that syncs with my phone...

Oh! and it could have an app that takes a picture of the latest artwork from nursery and displays it as a screensaver. and then I can put the art in the recycling without feeling like a crusher of souls

Big American-style fridge freezer with an ice dispenser built in.

In a fantasy world, maybe have a programme built in where I can put in ingredients that are in the fridge, and it comes up with recipe suggestions/ cocktails :)

With the weather having been as hot as it has over the past month or so, perhaps some type of fan option which could blow out some refrigerated air into the environs.....

I'd like the option to have shelves at different heights on either side of the fridge if possible. Defo interchangeable depending on contents of fridge.

Not fussed about an egg holder but would possible like it to come with removable tubs to go in the door shelves that can be wished in the dishwasher.

I'd like the door to be a 'white board' then DH can't say he missed my notes

and the technology addict in me wants LEDs and digital clock etc

I would like a child lock. I'd like a better designed salad box: too often flimsy and get cracked. I'd like space in the door to comfortably store big milk containers without the door swing violently because of the weight. I'd like a super easy clean design with no places for food to get stuck and trapped in. I'd like a sealed off area for meat and fish. I'd like to do something with the space above the fridge - storage unit? I'd like to be able to paint the fridge to match my kitchen and choose custom handles. I'd like it not to make loads of noise. (I'd also like fairies to keep it stocked with tasty morsels...)

shelves that are really easy to take in and out and even easier to clean, and a thermostat,

As far as designing the front is concerned, I'd like a digital memo where I can write a shopping list which can then be linked up with an app on my mobile phone. We are always writing shopping lists on bits of paper, then often do an inpromptu shop whilst we are out so don't have the list with us!

The front must be easy to clean, but I'd like slots or something so I can store my son's artwork without then continually falling off as the magents don't stay put!

I'd also like a gizmo which will tell me when food is going out of date(especially things like mayo which should only be kept open for 6 wks).

I love glass shelves as they are easy to keep clean. 6 shelves are a minimum for me and I'd like a big draw to keep "milk stock" in addition to deep door pockets to store big milk containers.

A special drawer for keeping vegetables fresher for longer too please. Veg just don't last like they used to, now they store then in big Co2 controlled warehouses for months!

A nice sounding alarm please if the door is left open (rather than the irritating type on my Bosch washing machine!). Although someone else mentioned a self shutting door - love that concept!

My parents have a fridge with a fan inside to circulate cool air, so would like that too please - I find our fridge freezes everything at the back and then doesn't even chill properly at the front!

I'd also like more lights inside. Why do fridges have only one light at the top which when you inevitably pile your shelves high, you can't see anything. I think LED strip lights (white fine, or colour changing blue too perhaps) would work well on the front of the shelves.

Thanks!

I have looked at a lot of fridge frreezers yesterday. rarely were there shelves that you could move slightly higher or lower, only in the indesis ones.

there were often not enough shelves. who needs just one shelf above the veg and one other?

the door shelves were not deep enough very annoying. 2 door shelves that can hold milk would be good. we get through a lot.

light bulbs that do not get hot.

if a fridge freezer, a big draawer. so many would not have been able to hold the christmas turkey. I want 4 drawers in my freezer.

perrhaps another sert of drawers in the fridge that stop the cold air flowing out of the door everytime you open it. I never have enough veg and fruit space. we eat a ot of veg and fruit.

space in the fridge that will fit a water melon. a guard at the back so that fruit/veg does not get stuck to the back of the fridge and spoil. that is very annoying.

Oh god, noooooooo to the LED clock. I have a clock in the kitchen: one time to rule them all.

I will not allow past my door devices which wish to be competing kitchen clocks. With competing times. All of which need setting twice a year, and again when something happens.

I don't have an electronic microwave for precisely this reason (though admittedly unlike the mw the fridge doesn't get switched off at night).

I would like deeper door shelves so bottles, jars etc don't fall out, and the ability to move all the shelves around, as sometimes you may want to store something quite large, say at Christmas.

Easy to clean is a big must for me - ie shelves/compartments that are easy to remove and reinsert AND a way of knowing what goes where. I love the twin door American style fridge freezers, but sadly we don't have room for one, so it would be great if you could get a fridge freezer with all the brilliant fancy gadgets they have, but in conventional sizes.

I would love a built in water filter and cooler, as water is much nicer when chilled. A convenient way of making ice cubes would be handy too.

Often the drawers in freezers are the wrong size or difficult to slide in and out sometimes. However I still think I'd prefer drawers to shelves. Also a way of labelling the drawers might be handy.

I'm not too bothered about the colour, preferably something that doesn't need children's fingerprints wiping off all the time, so maybe charcoal grey? I love the coloured fridges that a certain manufacturer makes, but feel the price tag that goes with the funky colours is a bit ridiculous.

Also a great idea might be a separate boxed in area for cat/dog food as it often smells but needs to be kept in the fridge in this weather.

Finally, as much room as possible!!

i bloody LOVE my ice machine. I really would miss it if it broke.

Design: I'd like the front to be either a wipe clean whiteboard or clear perspex so you could display photos or artwork behind it - so the colour wouldn't matter too much.

The number of shelves is less important than how they can be combined to store different things - bottles of wine, the xmas turkey, etc.

Bigger isn't always better than clever design - we live in a new build so there's not much space. Always on the look out for things that store more stuff in a clever way.

I always pay attention to environmental factors too.

Self-cleaning would be marvellous .

Deep doors are the thing that I most envy in people with big fridges - my little fridge can't actually hold a 4-pint thing of milk.

I would like the ice drawer in the freezer to be a bit bigger to put icecreams in aswel as icepops

also salad drawers would be better with seal type lids to keep thr contents fresh!

ice/drinks dispenser s on normal sized fridges woild be fab too

colour is a personal thing I think but I dont think u can ever go wrong with white

Cheap spares, a cheap same or next day repair service, and a way of making the outside look nice again once it gets tired.

We are currently shopping around for a fridge and struggling to find one that has everything we would like.

I would look an American style fridge with an Ice and water despencer on the front. I think black is best so that I don't have to clean the front all of the time. Separate sections with plenty of shelves. Enough space on the inside of the door for larger bottles.

If I could create my own I would also like a digital screen where I can write in a note for it to display as I always put notes on the fridge.

Lots of great ideas above, but I'd like to have them - at an affordable price! A fridge that's very economical to run, maybe has antibacterial coating to help stop my fruit going off so fast, a one that's abit taller so I can fit more food in (glutton) with possibly a mirrored back wall so I can see stuff at the back in the reflection. Thanks that is all

My fridge would be turquoise in colour and be self cleaning. An ice dispenser, a salad drawer and a separate veg drawer. In fact mainly drawers, some half shelf width. It would be able to hold tall big bottles and little bottles.

Nothing should be out of view or hidden so that it goes off or out of date.