I like your criteria as you described them in your first par.

FWIW, an 18" Miele dishwasher holds a lot and has other features that really make sense and that are not found in other DWs.

For small fridges I can give you input.
First, keep in mind that almost all the 24" fridges are copycats of another, and the subcontractors that make the boxes, liners, compressors and other parts sell to them all, so many of these companies' products are identical to a T except for the door bins and trim pieces.
Second, don't believe any numbers about the internal volume. Calculate cubic feet yourself by measuring H x W x D and dividing by 1728.

Some fridges have TWO compressors, one for the freezer and for the fridge. Not many in the 24" size.
Some fridges use a passive cooling system, that does not force air to move, and therefore does not dry out your foods.
Fridges that circulate air are known as frost-free or auto-defrost. The word "Frost" is used, even for the fridge compartment. They dehumidify the air and dry out all foods, some at a very slow rate, some faster. Food can spoil faster.
With passive cooling, fridge humidity is high --- and this is good for foods. There will be excess humidity (condensation) sliding down a runnel and draining into a small tray on top of the compressor to evaporate from there. This returns to the room the same h20 that came from room air in the first place. When you open the fridge door you put humid room air into the fridge.

All fridges make noises. Coolant liquid is being turned into gas and then back into liquid again, in the cooling circuit that pulls heat out of the fridge and puts it into the backside or outside sides. Assuming the noises a fridge can make in an open area will be important to you, here is my assessment.

--LG's fridge works very well, and makes few noises. One compressor.
--Fagor's fridge makes a number of noises all described in their Use & Care manual, which you can get on their web site. One compressor.
--Liebherr's freestanding and built-in models are quiet; that means there is still some noise, but it is deemed negligible. They switch a single compressor over two independent cooling circuits. Since there are also two independent air circuits, air circulation can be stopped in the fridge compartment, to make it into passive cooling. This is an option described in their Use & Care manual, which you can get somewhere on the web.
-Three or more companies have a Danish design, Vestfrost, with two compressors. Each compressor is unaffected by the other cooling circuit. They are quiet, making very little hum -- probably running at only 10% to 20% of their capacity. Their fridge and freezer are both passive cooling. Thus the freezer needs manual defrosting once in a blue moon.
----Home Depot's web site has a Vestfrost but I've not seen it in a store.
----Summit's 24" fridges include their CP171 model: this is the Vestfrost.
----ConServ's two 24"s are both Vestfrosts in design, one being an "old" model, one being a newer model. I've seen both in operation.
For the companies below I don't know what noises they make.
GE has one now that is a copycat but I never studied it.
Summit has more 24" fridges, with air moving (autodefrost) and only one compressor.
Blomberg has two 24" fridges -- with an original design for North America, because the freezer is frost-free but the fridge compartment is passive cooling.

Also: 24" integrated and therefore 22" wide in reality (so it's a cubic foot less than the 24"w) are Liebherr, Blomberg, and Miele (so far only in Canada), all running on the same frame and compressor. They are so similar that their door bins are interchangeable.

I have read in several places that two adults can use 8 cu.ft. of fridge space.
After downsizing, I would say 6 cubic feet is enough, and 7 is plenty.
The more shelves, the less space is wasted.

All the models described above are bottom freezer models.

Late this year Danby may introduce a bottom freezer model,
according to the email I received when I asked them.
Danby and Avanti make reliable top freezer models that you may find totally acceptable, and that others would say a landlord would put into a rented apartment.

Also consider Ariston's 36" wide undercounter two-drawer fridge.
It gives you more counter top surface but robs you of counter drawers.

For cooking, I can't help if you are going with an electric range and not induction.

HTH
-david