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Appliances for the New Family Space

A half bathroom and a laundry were also installed in the basement of the Melrose home. These systems were installed using a pump system because the room is below street level and needs to have wastewater pumped up to the sewer lines. A SwanStone Deep Laundry Sink was put in place with a Moen faucet. A Whirlpool front-loading washer and dryer set was also installed. In order to fit so much material in a limited space, the homeowners shopped for appliances using Brandsource.com, which gave the couple detailed information on different brands, including sizes and shapes. Brandsource carries information from over 2,500 retail outlets and features $10 billion in products. The appliances were installed by a local dealer. The washing machine is a Whirlpool Duet, which features extra-large capacity, is energy efficient, and has storage in the bottom. A large freezer from Amana was installed along with a refrigerator-freezer and a GE microwave. A GE wine cooler chills beverages in the other room. The TV is a 50-inch Samsung flat panel. A 42-inch plasma Samsung TV was also installed in the master bedroom. A smaller television set was installed in the children's room. A stainless-steel grill was put in the backyard.

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" So one of the other things that we got to do in creating this new basement space was to carve out. -- half bathroom and a laundry room and everything's on a pump system because we're in a basement space below the grade of the street. So we've got a swans stone deep laundry sink with one of these great mowing. Faucets here we have room for the ideal laundry equipment this is of course the front loaders from whirlpool that make life easier for the homeowner especially since they're elevated and have the storage space underneath it. And on and on there's so many details that manage to get fit right into this very tight space."

" You know Sarah and Ricardo had a lot of different appliances and electronics to fit in their house -- really unique constraints like the size of this room. So they did was they went online to brand source fact kind of get the different brands sizes and shapes to fit in here. You know brand sources of national entity that has almost 2500 retail outlets. Doing almost ten billion dollars looks great -- and parsley got an awesome deal that everything was professionally installed. Our local dealer Gray's appliance here in Melrose this is the city at our whirlpool duet pair. You can manually set everything to have a customized wash or let the machine do everything for you it's extra large capacity it'll save tons of energy. And it has great storage underneath him in these machines are ultra quiet. Mom and dad in this family both work sleep can't shop for groceries every other day. That's what we need a large freezer like this one from amana cluster fits great under the stairs. If that's not enough we had even more freezer space in this bottom out freezer from -- more refrigeration for extra beverages birthday cakes and everything else you need for entertaining. In the other room we even have a GE wine cooler what -- chill your beverages to the perfect temperature. And we have a GE microwave for popping the perfect popcorn because there's going to be a lot of movies here with all the home theater that we have another room. An anchoring the system down here's a fifteen inch Samsung flat panel Samsung is state of the art top and it's flat panel and it really brings the movie theater experience home. And in the master bedroom a slightly smaller 42 inch Samsung plasma is great because it's so slim it doesn't dominate the decor. And the kids even got their own little Samsung LCD -- up for watching dvds in their own room. In all these units were easy to compare and contrast online -- grants or stock com. Plus the homeowners got great quality service from our local brand source so what which allowed him even more time for this beautiful stainless steel drilled."

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