French door refrigerators incorporate the advantages of other refrigerator types. Like a top-freezer fridge, each compartment is full-width. Like a side-by-side, the doors span half the width of the refrigerator, minimizing front clearance requirements and making the doors lighter and easier to open and close. And, like a bottom-freezer design, the freezer uses a pull-out drawer at the bottom of the refrigerator for easier access. The French door design's capacity and accessibility make it a nice upgrade over the default top-freezer fridge for families, especially with wider fridges where the half-width doors are a necessity. However, these fridges have more sealing surfaces, causing greater air leakage and potentially lower efficiency. French door fridges tend to be pricier than other fridge configurations, even when comparing models with similar internals.