I've had an upright freezer for about 15 years, and only used the freezer in my old refrigerator for ice cube trays and stale bread for croutons, crumbs or pudding. In my previous house the freezer was in the laundry, which was a similar configuration to a mudroom, without the mud. It was great. In my current house, it was in the kitchen proper, but on the outside of the G shaped cook area. It was great. In my new kitchen, I have the Miele 30" all fridge and all freezer next to each other. I'm not in yet, but it seems great. The old freezer is going in the garage downstairs, for holding stock, spaghetti sauce, and other high volume, low turnover stuff. That doesn't seem great, but I don't have anywhere better to put it. It's a marvelous freezer. Re integrated: You don't want a bit of stainless poking out of it. If it's purposeful stainless, like a frame, or handle, that's fine. You do not want to be seeing the unit itself, however. There will be a little sight of the gaskets through the cracks, and the color you see on opening, but that's another story. With the Miele coolers there's white plastic trim. My Marvel fridge drawers came with an option of white or black for the unit. The toekick vent on that is white on the white one. The Viking panel ready DW is black and came with a black toekick panel with the light on it. My GC and tile setter discussed redoing it in tile but decided instead to paint it. The Monogram warming drawer is stainless. I don't get excited over what shows in the cracks. There's a certain point where you have to just accept things as they are. But when you have your units installed, your integrated fronts should be flush with the rest of your cabinetry. Make sure your cabinet people understand the specs of your appliances going in, and account for them. They may want you to have the appliances on site so they can be sure of the In Real Life measurements. Mine wanted the DW, cooktop and fridge drawers while they were installing the cabinets, but not the fridge/freezer or ovens. So then they had to delay oven installation while the cabinet maker came back and fixed the opening which was a teeny tad small on the front frame. The specs are very available online. Miele tells you very clearly that the integrated depth is 25", for instance.

Hi jaymielo; I'm delighted you like the idea of our magnetic chalkboards enough to do it in your own home! What a compliment. I did a quick internet search for "magnetic chalkboard" and there were oodles of hits. I'm in Boulder, CO, so unless you're close I'm not sure how useful my cabinetmaker's (local) source will be ... but you let me know if you want me to ask and I shall! You were so close about its size! ItÂs 20" wide by 48" high. The white side panels (it appears to me) were cut out and the chalkboard panels are mounted in the back. Not sure how to phrase it -- hopefully this is where a picture is worth a thousand words! back: close-up of back: front: close-up of front (you can see here how the white panel is cut and the chalkboard is behind it): chalk ledge: Our children are soon-to-be four and soon-to-be two years-old; we wanted them to be able to access the chalkboards and chalk, so the ledges are ~26" from the floor. Even though they're low for adult-use a wonderful thing about the ledges' height is that they're low enough to not catch us (adults) in the thigh or hip (our [okay, my] widest parts [as opposed to our calves]), and the edges have been eased: I wanted them rounded but my husband didn't and since he didn't want marble and we have acres of it ... I was happy to concede. Hope this is helpful  if not, let me know and IÂll measure / take more pictures!

I just saw this photo in one of Boxerpups' answer posts and I thought of your question. Looks they have some sort of cabinet right next to the sink and maybe you could employ something like this. The sides look very thick in order to hold up that counter. We'll have an end run dishwasher and there will be a two inch side and wall brackets to hold up soapstone. Not knowing what the rest of that run looks like makes it hard to suggest anything, not that I could, but there are lots here that can take great info and run with it. Have no clue about the moisture. HTH

The granite installers should mount a metal dishwasher bracket from the front top of the end panel across to the front top of the next cabinet - this provides a place to fasten the dishwasher mounting screws, and will help hold the end panel. Also, they'll run a bead of adhesive on top the end panel to further secure it to the granite. Talk to them to make sure they do. Beyond that, screw a 1x2 or 1x4 to the wall across the back to support the granite, put another vertically to secure the side of the panel, then fasten the bottom of the end panel by nailing it to a 1x1 strip screwed to the floor.