It shouldn't be more than a couple of hundred dollars to panel the sides of the fridge and move that cabinet forward. I'd say $500 tops. You just haven't found the right person for the job yet. It's even pretty easily DIYable if you are remotely handy. Step #1 would be to take a cabinet door down to the best paint shop in town and having them color match it and sheen match it to the cabinets. That's actually the most difficult aspect of it. And sourcing some new crown molding that matches the profile of the old. If you can't source that, then it's easier to just replace all the cabinet's molding. Which actually would be a good thing, as you could then beef it up and take it to the ceiling. That might cost you 1K. But it would have a huge impact on the kitchen.

I vote SxS. . We have the Kenmore Elite badged Samsung CD SxS. Initially, we were worried about the fridge not having enough space as we were used to a full depth SxS & we are a family of 4 (DH, myself and DS1&2--who try their best to eat us out of house and home), but we quickly found out that those worried were unfounded. It has plenty of space, lots of storage bin room, is well lit with LEDs and keeps produce fresh for at least 2 weeks! It also has a can rack in the door and a bottle rack in the main compartment. Ice and water through the door work great. We do have a backup fridge in the garage, but really we only use it for extra gallons of milk (we buy 3-4 at a time) and leftovers in those giant styrofoam boxes from restaurants. I think we had a pie or two in there at Christmas too. Other than that, everything fits nicely in the CD SxS. Overall, very pleased and would purchase it again in a heartbeat. I posted the link to our model below. We also thought it would be a nice change to go FD, but after really analyzing how we use the fridge, SxS made the most sense for us. These are the things we figured out: -Unless you're always making up really long platters/pans of food and storing them in the fridge that way, the extra width didn't really make a difference. What you gain in width you lose in height. Regular size pans (ie 13x9) fit just fine in a SxS CD. -As mentioned above, having to open & close 2 doors can be a pain. Depending on the model, the door may have to be closed in a certain order or the mechanism may inadvertently keep the fridge from closing all the way as well. -Having to bend over and rummage through all the freezer stuff seemed like a nightmare waiting to happen (think chest freezer). The only one that we even considered once we figured out the freezer issue was the 4 door version. -The vast majority of CD FD models require you to open the fridge doors to fully access the freezer space. I maybe could have pulled a bag of veggies through the space between the edge of the open freezer door and the edge of the closed fridge doors--maybe. Anything larger would have required opening the fridge to find/remove anything from the freezer compartment. Not very energy efficient if you ask me. So definitely check this before you buy. -No matter which style you buy, make sure the internal set-up will work for you. Hope this helps! Here is a link that might be useful: Kenmore Elite Badged Samsung CD SxS Fridge

I habe refrigerator drawers and they work great. One top is refrigerator and below is a freezer. The top has pre selections of different types of temp settings (snacks,drinks,produce,variety etc) and can manually set the temp the preferred temp too. Freezer is great, it has pre sets as well (chill, deep freeze, spirits) and one great thing is it also has an ice machine if desired. love them, I use them for my drink station and barely touch my wine fridge since it’s mostly for looks and less convenient than fridge drawers! I’ve seen other people use them as a snack station for kids with apples juices cheese strings etc. I love it as a beverage center I can fit a ton of stuff in it: beers ciders wines orange juice etc. I use the freezer for spirits. for the noise, it is so quiet I don’t ever hear it running IMO but the ice machine sure is loud I can hear when the water pump turns on to refill the ice tray and the ice drops into the bucket it’s loud. My cabinet guy never was able to fit it in flat to the rest of the cabinets for some reason, if your considering cabinet ready you may want to check that first. The ice machine doesn’t have a way of recognizing when the bucket is full so you could easily overflow the ice bucket into affinity which is annoying but after some discipline of turning it off and on when needed, it works fine for us. It’s nice not having to use the ice maker in my large freezer because it’s always so full of food and etc. overall love it and will always use them instead of wine fridge/undercounter door fridge.

We were hoping to do this in our new build with Bosch or Thermador units. Our cabinet guy said he could build a cabinet to make it work, but our appliance rep (and primarily his brand reps) said they wouldn’t stand behind the install in this configuration. We decided to split the two undercounter ovens, with a stack of cabinets directly under the cooktop and the two ovens to either side. I know it’s not ideal and would get torn apart by the kitchen gurus here, but it is what works best for us in this situation. We use two ovens a lot, I don’t particularly care for using the top oven in a stack (I’m short and don’t like lifting/lowering things at head level), and our options for stacking ovens this kitchen seemed to really close it in and limit countertop space. So this is what worked best for us.