Editor's Choice 5 Best Kitchen Appliance Suites

GE Monogram® has always offered refrigerators and dishwashers that can be customized with a choice of exterior panels to complement your kitchen's decor. Now they've opened a new door in built-in design with models that can be customized and seamlessly integrated with your cabinetry. It's the perfect solution if you're looking to create a sleek, smooth kitchen design. Glass or solid refrigerator doors can be customized with your choice of stainless steel or professional exterior panels. For a truly custom look you can have your cabinetmaker build your wood panels. Paired with a professional range, cooktop and wall ovens, you can create a kitchen you'll enjoy for years.

Sure, it's nice to get complimented on your kitchen. But cooking is a true matter of pride. So the subtle and stylish exteriors of Viking's® Professional Designer Series cooking products conceal heavy-duty performance. Beneath the contoured handles and beveled knobs you'll find all the exceptional features you expect from Viking®. Ovens, ranges, cooktops, warming drawers, microwaves — they all fit snugly into your existing counter space or cabinetry. Ovens, warming drawers, and microwaves can even be flush mounted for a seamless look to minimize distractions from your dinner menu.

Refrigeration is crucial to a kitchen. No matter how refined your cooking skills, you can't compensate for a lack of fresh ingredients. Viking® Designer refrigerator/freezers feature dedicated drawers and shelves to accommodate every item on your grocery list. And how's this for a treat — you can choose from 24 colors.

Discover the brilliance of LG® as it extends its smart theme with a complete range of kitchen appliances that utilize their groundbreaking new THINQ™ technology. LG's® THINQ™ will allow you to use your appliances more efficiently. The devices themselves can perform diagnostics, report problems, learn about their environment and adapt to your own preferences. For example, THINQ™ enables LG's® smart ovens to download a wide range of up-to-date recipes while the smart refrigerator keeps you organized by knowing what's in your fridge, where it is and when it expires. Think "The Jetsons" and check out the HOM-BOT robotic vacuum cleaner. It will not only tidy up your house, but also keep watch over it when you're not home.

You can create a truly decadent kitchen with high-end appliances from Sub-Zero® and Wolf®. These handcrafted appliances are mostly made of steel and feature the latest advances in technology to ensure sure you the finest in food preservation and precision cooking. Their claim to fame refrigerators are built with dual refrigeration (separate microprocessor-controlled cooling system for refrigerator and a freezer) so your food stays fresh longer. Cooking like the professional chef's you see on TV couldn't be easier than in a kitchen designed with Sub-Zero®/Wolf Appliances®. Find your cooking style by visiting their Living Kitchen so you can plan and design your dream kitchen.

Luxury kitchen-appliance brand Thermador® is taking its line of cooking, cleaning, refrigeration and ventilation appliances to a whole new level with a series of new, cutting-edge appliances for 2011. You can satisfy your craving for decadence by creating a gourmet kitchen featuring products from their Professional® Series — Professional® Series Single Oven, 36-inch Professional Series Freedom® French Door Refrigerator, an 18-inch Freedom Collection Wine Column, the 24-inch Professional Series Emerald Oven and top-of-the-line Sapphire dishwashers. Worth checking out is the Masterpiece® Series Steam & Convection Oven.