March 21, 2022
Mixing & Matching Appliance Brands: Is It Okay?
One of the biggest concerns when buying appliances is that if they’ll look good. Because let’s be honest, appliances aren’t always the most attractive of things. But when they do look good, they really stand out and make an incomplete kitchen whole!
7 min read
Do My Appliances Need To Match?
A lot of people aren’t bothered if their appliances all come from the same brand. After all, an appliance is an appliance, it’ll get a job done, even if it doesn’t look fantastic on the outside.
This is where mixing and matching appliance brands comes in. You can choose to stick with one brand, which makes life a lot easier for you. Or you can mix up the brands to suit your needs. It can be difficult to choose from such a variety of brands before making a purchase. However, there are a few choices you can make prior to make the end look a lot more consistent.
Mixing & Matching With Colours
Appliances come in so many different shapes, styles and finishes. Sometimes it’s difficult to decide on one, never mind lots at once. If you’ve decided to mix & match brands, choosing appliances of the same colour and finish will really give them a uniform look once in place.
Stainless Steel Appliances
By far the most popular style of appliance, the stainless steel look is classic and suits so many colour cupboards, floors etc. We do see that the shade of steel varies, but only ever so slightly. So it’ll always be easy to mix & match stainless steel appliances from different brands.
Black Appliances
Black appliances are a little trickier. You can get plain black, or you can get black steel, and then there’s a number of other black shades across brands. Black steel is a much newer colour on the market, and can often vary across brands. We’d recommend trying to go for the same brands when choosing black appliances, or at least do your research on the tone of the colour.
White Appliances
Similar to stainless steel, white is white. There’s generally no difference between the whites that are on offer from brands, as they’re considered to be the budget option available. White fits in well with lighter cabinetry, but would perhaps stick out like a sore thumb with black or much darker cabinets.
If you’re looking to mix & match brands, white is a really good, safe, choice.
Mixing & Matching For Features
It’s a well-known fact that brands compete when it comes to unique features. So there is a huge variety of features that are only on certain brands—making them unique or more desirable than other models. This is the case for features such as Slide & Hide by Neff.
However, brands are incredibly quick to create their own versions of competitor features. For example, the Auto Dose feature on washing machines is a twenty first century appliance development. Once one brand started doing it, the rest followed. Giving you the option to choose almost every brand for a more efficient and less waste wash.
Mixing and matching appliances allows you to pick and choose exactly what features you prefer, rather being locked into one appliances version of the feature, or not having it at all.
Pros & Cons Of Mixing & Matching
Saving Money When Buying Multiple Brands
No matter whether you’re choosing one brand or mixing and matching multiple, our multibuy tool will help you to no end. As long as you’re buying multiple appliances, you can get money off! Our multibuy tool is the best if you’re buying a kitchen suite!
Simply add your chosen appliances to your multibuy by going to the product page and clicking ‘Add to Multibuy.’ Then go to the Multibuy page, and send off your request to our sales experts. They’ll check over the selection and send you a quote back as soon as they can.