Kitchen Appliances - any recommendations on reliable, trustworthy brands?

Yes, the storage is always important, I agree Annie.
No good having a posh looking freezer with a famous name if you can only get half your stuff in it!

Aren’t they all sold by size? Mine for example is called a Westinghouse 210 because it has a volume of 210 litres, My son recently bought a Samsung 145FD which had a volume of 145 litres