How the Scorecard is scored.
Eight measures, nine for refrigerators, each out of 10, for every brand that sells a colorful range, refrigerator, dishwasher, range hood or wall oven in the United States. The reason behind every score is published, and so is where it came from.
The nine measures.
What each one asks, and what the ends of the scale look like.
Whether the brand names its manufacturer and the country on its own site, and whether the records agree.
A 10: Names the factory and the country plainly, and customs and energy-efficiency records match.
A 2: Says nothing, and the records show another maker’s product behind the badge.
How long it runs, what it covers, and what voids it.
A 10: Several years on parts and labor, counted from delivery, with few exclusions.
A 2: One year or less, cut back from what it was, with cosmetic cover measured in hours.
Whether a real service network exists, and whether it turns up.
A 10: A published network across the country, and owners report visits within days.
A 2: No published network; owners describe months of waiting or areas declared unserviceable.
Recalls from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, how serious they were, and whether the fix worked.
A 10: No recall on any of the brand’s products.
A 2: A recall on the model itself, with reports that the repair did not solve it.
What the review record says when retailer stars and complaint records are read together.
A 10: Strong retailer ratings and a clean Better Business Bureau and Trustpilot record that agree with each other.
A 2: A wide gap between the stars on the day it arrives and the complaints in the first year, or no record at all.
How many colors, whether you can see a sample first, and whether the color can change later.
A 10: A wide standard palette, a sample you can hold, and a way to change the color after purchase.
A 2: One or two finishes, no sample, no way back.
The street price of the reference size on the day it was checked.
Scored within each category: the lowest current price scores 10 and the highest scores 2. A brand with nothing on sale scores 0. A brand that does not publish a price is scored by hand, and the reason says so.
In stock and at your door, or built to order and weeks away.
A 10: In stock at a US retailer or warehouse, delivered within days.
A 2: Built to order with a lead time of months, or not currently available.
The service level a buyer gets by default: curbside on a pallet, inside the door, carried to the room, or installed with the old fridge taken away. Scored from the brand’s own delivery page, or the main retailer’s where the brand does not sell direct.
A 10: Carried to the room, unboxed, leveled and plugged in, the old fridge taken away, at no charge.
A 2: Left at the curb, or nothing published at all.
Where the evidence comes from.
Every reason on the Scorecard traces to one of these.
Warranty documents, FAQ pages and product pages on the brand’s own site. What a brand says about itself is the starting point, and what it leaves out is noted.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall record, read for every brand on every scorecard, including the brands with nothing on it.
US customs import records and federal energy-efficiency filings, which show who actually ships a product and when two brands share one.
The Better Business Bureau, Trustpilot, and the review pages at Home Depot, Lowe’s and Best Buy, read side by side.
Owner threads on Reddit and Houzz, quoted where they show a pattern rather than a single bad day.
The rules.
No overall score. The trade-off is the point. A buyer choosing on looks weighs color and price; a buyer who cooks every day weighs the warranty and who turns up when it breaks. One number would hide exactly what the Scorecard exists to show.
Alphabetical, always. Ordering by any total would be a ranking by another name.
The brands we sell are scored by the same rules. Kucht and ZLINE sit in the same table as everyone else, and they lose columns. A brand we do not sell can win one, and several do.
No invented facts. Every reason traces to a source. Where a measure was not researched for a brand, the reason says so instead of guessing.
Dated, and re-read. Each entry shows when it was checked. Prices and stock are re-read at every rebuild of the site; the rest is re-read when a brand changes something that matters.
Corrections are welcome. A brand or an owner who can show a score is wrong writes to support@colorfulbrands.co, and the entry changes with the date on it.
When it was checked.
- Ranges: 20 brands, checked Sep 8, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026
- Refrigerators: 19 brands, checked Sep 8, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026
- Dishwashers: 14 brands, checked Sep 8, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026
- Range hoods: 20 brands, checked Sep 8, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026
- Wall ovens: 11 brands, checked Sep 8, 2026
The Scorecard is also published as data: colorfulbrands.co/data/scorecard.json, every brand, every score and every reason, with the date each entry was checked and the sources behind it.
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