Not sure if this will help. We have 10" island overhang in the direction of our French door counter depth fridge. And 46" between edge of counter and front of fridge door. A person can sit at swivel chair and other people can open the doors at the same time. These doors swing out at widest 18" (not built in but counter depth fridge). But there's not a lot of extra room.

The distance between our island top edge and the fridge door handle is 46". I have the same type of fridge and made sure I had plenty of step-back room (I think that's how someone referred to it) when opening the freeze door/drawer all the way. Possibly a more important meaurement you need to consider is the clearance required to remove the current fridge and slide a new one in, when (not if) that comes to pass. Envision pulling the fridge forward from its space, then turning/pivoting a quarter turn to move it out. We measured our fridge's diagonal dimension and even did a dry run before we finalized our island.

ETA: Though, if your fridge isn't slotted into a confined space like mine is, then never mind. (Sorry!)

Thank you so much for the replies! Considering my 120" space, if I set aside 46" as javiwa had for walkway, and 36" for refrigerator itself. I would only have less than 40" for my countertop width. I probably will have to look for a countertop depth fridge then!

We have a whopping 58" from the fridge to the peninsula. Probably overkill, but even with the single door open, there's 26"- plenty of room to walk by. We went with a single door fridge, as a french door was less convenient with our layout.

One thing to look into is to see if you can recess the fridge into the wall behind it. The wall our fridge is on is 6" thick, so we were able to recess the fridge about 5". The main box of the fridge only sticks out about an inch past the cabinets. Of course, if the fridge is on an exterior wall, this isn't possible.

We have a similar situation - our refrigerator is standard depth 36" with handle and 48" with open doors. Trying to decide how much space would be appropriate to have - space would only be a walkway as it would be the side of island - no doors/drawers, and no seating on that particular side. Is 3 feet between closed fridge and edge of island enough?

Hey gmac03, in our setting, that space is only a walkway for us as well (no door/drawer on that side of island). The difference is that, we ended up using a mobile island so that we stopped worrying if 3ft is enough :P

However, based on my memory, I think our normal setup does have exactly 3ft of walkway space (handle to island), and we feel pretty adequate. But, I actually do not have access to that walkway until this weekend... I can measure it up again by then to confirm and reply if my memory is wrong!

@CCC HI! Checking to see if you now know how much space is between your fridge and island? I have 3” planned but am worried that with the double doors open there is only 24” between 90* open door and island. Am I going to get trapped!!??