We just got a French door refrigerator, and I love love it. The lights are wonderful and the room inside is wonderful. We had a side by side before and many times couldn't get items into the freezer-too wide. When I took the old fridge apart to clean it, I could never get all the pieces back in. The drawers did work smoothly and the ice maker was very hard to clean.
The new fridge is great--the freezer might be a tad smaller, but is easy to load and to see what is in there. I could just stand there and look at it all day because it is so beautiful. Another thing, my electric bill was lower than with the old one. I think it is going to be a money saver on top of everything. Oh, the flange between the doors operates no matter which door you close first. Probably the flange was broken on Grandma Nancy's fridge. Or maybe it wasn't level.
Sue