In the future, if you encounter similar problems, you could consider buying things from the UK (or for that matter, from most other countries in Europe). I have had good luck ordering from country-specific Amazon stores. Shipping is not negligible, but I find it is frequently surprisingly little compared to what I would have expected. A quick glance at the amazon.co.uk suggests that shipping an undercounter wine cooler to the US would set you back somewhere on the order of $85. Amazon usually is good about shipping internationally for items that they sell themselves, but several third-party vendors on Amazon don't do so by default. I have sometimes contacted them directly, and discovered that in about 50% of cases, they are willing to negotiate special terms to ship to the US. Also, they should technically refund value-added-tax, when they do this. That's about a 20% discount, which can often make the extra cost of shipping more palatable. The downside is that you won't have easy warranty service, and you also will have to deal with country-specific model differences. Dimensions could be a little different, but a quick check suggests that UK appliances are compatible in height with US models. And of course, voltage is different. The UK uses 240V/50Hz, whereas the US uses 120V/60Hz. The difference in voltage is easy to fix. You simply ask your electrician to run a 240V circuit to the kitchen. That's possible in most households, although it might be difficult to do in some apartment buildings that get three-phase service. The difference in frequency is usually not a problem. Modern electronics never care; resistive loads (i.e. heating elements) don't care; inductive loads (i.e. motors and transformers) might care. That's a chance you have to take. Or you could ask the manufacturer. Realistically, it is extremely unlikely that operating at 60Hz instead of 50Hz is going to cause problems. The reverse is more likely to be a problem. This only leaves you with potential questions about building codes. There is nothing inherently wrong with European appliances. After all, hundreds of millions of people use them daily. But they might not have been tested by American test labs. And they probably won't even show up in American building codes, as they simply aren't a major consideration. This could be a problem when you get the kitchen inspected -- or it could be a non-issue. Depends on your local building department.

Saabiar, I suggest you take some pictures and draw up a diagram of the layout. A kitchen with only 21" deep cabinets and no DW will need more than just a bumpout to accomplish getting the DW shoehorned in. If you're handy, and doing the work yourself, including the electrical and plumbing, its probably a cost effective stopgap solution. If you aren't handy, and have to pay a contractor to do it, those dollars may be better spent in reimagining the space with a new layout and maybe some Ikea solutions for replacement.

We have both an undercounter microwave and a beverage fridge. I bend down a little for the m/w controls, but 99% of the time I'm using the same buttons - open/close, stop/pause and the numbers to set time - I know their location now, so I just knuckle the panel and I'm set. The beverage fridge, I do have to go into a full deep-knee bend to grab things, but it's an alcohol-only fridge, and I use it a lot less than if it had, say, bottled water or if I stored juice/soda for children in it. BTW, we ended up with a beverage fridge instead of wine fridge because Spouse is a big beer drinker, and most of the wine-fridge racks had slats that were too widely spaced to hold bottles of beer. Even 25-oz bottles of many microbrews and imports are skinnier than wine bottles, and slipped right through the slats when we tested empties at the appliance store. We have the obligatory few bottles of wine on the slats, removed one glass shelf so as to accommodate taller beer bottles, and the fridge works fine for our needs.

It can be drilled and filled. Looks like blood contamination at the factory. We found a mosquito perfectly squished into a sheet of plastic laminate back in my store fixture manufacturing days. Couldn't feel him, but there he was.