Yep - too strange. But it would depend on the floorplan.

Ice with your water - what a pain.

We use our freezer way more often that I would want to be in the pantry. But that may be different for you.

We have 30 inch columns. Fantastic. I think a 36 and a 30 would be fine too.

We will be installing a second fridge in the pantry. Always handy to have a second fridge, especially if you buy Samsung [ grin :) ] that may [and will] need a constant repairs. Lets not forget samsung the icemakers https://www.classaction.org/blog/looking-for-updates-on-the-samsung-ice-maker-lawsuit-heres-everything-we-know .

I think it really depends on how much frozen quick fix food you eat. If you start every morning off with frozen waffles it seems an inconvenience. On the other hand, if you use your freezer only for food storage and rarely enjoy ice cream, it sounds reasonable. However, for resale it would certainly be better to have a freezer in the kitchen.

I have the Fridgedair all fridge/ all freezer with the builtin kit I love having both handy . Where is your KD in this mix that is the person you need to talk to now not later. I actually do not like walk in pantries IMO they are a waste of space .But I also do not like panelled appliances I think a kitchen is the work horse space in a home and appliances are part of the function and panels add nothing to function but sure cost a lot. I also beleive you buy appliances for how you cook not for how they look. Just because something is “high end” does not make it function better for you. I would post your floor plan to see what ideas come up.

I have my fridge and freezer in my pantry and love it this way. All the foos is gathered at the same place. Our pantry is right next to my prep area so it works really well.

It would depend on the floor plan. Can you post your floor plan?

The context to this is missing. Realize that freezers “make cold” by removing heat and ejecting it into the room. Heat that then is in a small room and will negatively affect food stored there. People who put fridges and freezers in pantries need to pay close attention to the HVAC for that room. Make sure that a supply and a return are planned. And properly pressure balanced. Or you may still end up with a hot or cold room due to being over pressured for the room volume. A lot of cheap poorly designed HVAC systems have that issue with small rooms like baths, pantries, and closets. That’s where you get musty clothes, prematurely expired rancid food, and freezing cold tile in the summer. The cheapest bid.

FWIW...my brother currently has full fridge and full freezer as he got them in advance of remodeling his kitchen. He shoved the freezer in his pantry as it was the only place he had room...just as a temp. location. He has since met with his kitchen designer to re-design the space to keep it there! He and his wife LOVE having it there out of the way. It fits their lifestyle perfectly.

It depends on the adjacency and organization of that pantry.

Walk in pantries are like walk in closets. They provide much less storage space per square foot than a cabinet pantry or reach in closet pantry. The trend towards walk ins has increased as a small a "back kitchen" type concept, where the messy and less attractive bits of kitchen reality go in order to keep the bigger show Kitchen space "living room ready".

It's kind of equivalent to the plastic covered living room that you're great aunt had, and then the back parlor that had the sewing basket on the floor and the puzzle of the Grand Canyon on the card table. It's also rapidly escalated the cost of kitchens to have to have them be living space attractive rather than a separate closed off functional and basic utilitarian space. And now we are getting that separate closed off utilitarian space AND a showy expensively appointed living space kitchen as well.

At one time, I was binge watching Escape to the Country and quickly learned that in the UK, the refrigerator/freezer, along with other "white goods" (washer/dryer) go in the pantry, not the kitchen. It certainly makes designing a warm, welcoming kitchen far easier - no "elephant" in the room". But it would drive me crazy.

If I had a big family, I would go ahead and put the enormous refrigerator and freezer side by side. If there was no space for this in my kitchen (I couldn't do that in my existing kitchen), then I'd do a standard side-by-side, and put an extra freezer in the pantry if it were an English-style pantry, ie it had windows and a door to the outside - truly a "room". I do have an extra refrigerator in my basement and I use it more and more as I shop far less often now that I'm in poor help. I like to have room for a couple of weeks of my Chobani breakfast yoghurt, extra eggs, applesauce, and in the freezer, frozen veggies, frozen potatoes and a few prepared dinners if I'm really feeling punk. It's great to have if for some reason I wasn't able to do my shopping when my yard may is here - can just carry groceries in from basement garage and put them in the basement frige/freezer and carry them up a few things at a time. I would not be without it!

Post floor plan. I had a french door fridge in my last house's kitchen and had a spare fridge in the pantry. My family with four kids HAS to have the extra fridge. We even have two fridges crammed in our tiny temp kitchen now because we have to have them. We have two upright freezers in our basement. In our upcoming remodel, I'm toying with the idea of putting the full fridge in the kitchen and a full freezer in the pantry because then all my fridge stuff is in one spot. Plus, the freezer in your pantry doesn't have to be "showroom" worthy either, leaving you more $$$$ to spend on a really nice fridge and other appliances.

I would say, though, that us having a stand-alone icemaker is pretty key to making the whole fridge-in-the-pantry option feasible. We have the Sonic ice kind and it has been the best present DH ever gave me :)

We put 36” integrated SZ all fridge column next to a 30” integrated SZ Freezer column. They are paneled and look great. I have upper door and 2 bottoms drawer configurations (which I love btw). We have a rather large kitchen so their dimensions side by side do not look odd. The drawers line up with my bottom cabinets.

If the pantry is within 5 steps, it could work. We use mostly fresh foods, so the freezer is not used that much, so it would work for us. It all depends on your needs and the overall floor plan. Very good tip above on HVAC considerations. Pay attention to that. I'll check back for a floor plan and see what else is a consideration.

please show us your floor plan.

I can easily see it working - as it sounds like they are RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER - which would have them side by side, but separated by a wall! (and could have it open "the wrong way" - i.e. out into the kitchen, etc)

But....... usually pantries are located in the corners of centrally to the kitchen which is usually NOT where you want a fridge - you want a fridge accessible to folks getting drinks / snacks, etc -without them traveling into the work zone.

So - the answer is sure - but "it depends" on the location.

What about putting in an integrated 48" fridge/freezer or possibly two 30" fridge/freezer columns instead? I think you'll regret not having the freezer in a more accessible location, closer to the work area. But, as others have said, hard to say without seeing the proposed floor plan.

Either way can work. We have two 30" paneled columns side by side. It works well if you shop weekly. And we are huge ice users so although not tons of frozen food, we need it by the fridge. And totally disagree with whoever said a walk-in pantry is a waste of space. It is the #1 item that people regret not having in their homes.

I've always had my fridge inside and my freezer outside (on the back porch or in the garage -- mild climate). This has never bothered me, but I don't put ice in anything, and nothing else from the freezer needs to be on hand. If I am going to defrost something, it's either (1) a whole meal, in which case, if I'm saving all that cooking time and I can afford to take a few extra steps to the deep freeze, or (2) something like raw meat that is going to need to thaw all day anyway, so I'm in no rush. So I don't find myself getting in and out of the freezer a bunch. On the other hand, my 36" subzero is a godsend and I get into it a hundred times per meal--I'm one of those people who isn't smart enough to realize I should get everything out of the fridge at once, so I'm constantly going back for the next ingredient.

In other words, do what works for you. Consider too, that you could put a full freezer in the pantry and put a smaller, under counter freezer in the kitchen for things you find yourself needing on hand (ice, maybe frozen herbs?, pre-made broth?). Totally depends on how you cook. Walk yourself through a few favorite meals and lunch prep routines and see if you think it would annoy you.

Have you thought about drawer freezers ?

We went through a similar thought process. We knew that we wanted a big counter-depth fridge. We are super happy with the SubZero that we bought. It uses space so much more efficiently than a fridge/freezer combination.

We also knew that we use our freezer a lot less frequently than the fridge. It is probably used on average once a day. But it's usually part of a bigger "let's find all the things to prepare a meal" process. So, we were very clear on not wanting the freezer to take up any valuable space inside the core part of the kitchen. Those 30" of top-to-bottom space can be used much more usefully for other kitchen pull-outs or for ergonomically placed wall ovens.

In our case, we have a kitchen island that is actually just outside of the kitchen. It's the connecting element between kitchen and dining room. For us, this was the perfect location for some freezer drawers. It made more sense than trying to put the freezer into the pantry, as the pantry is too small and even further away. But if there was a spacious pantry close by, then I don't see anything wrong with placing the freezer in there.

We've got a refrigerator with a small freezer in the kitchen for day-to-day use like making ice and keeping the ice cream and put the storage freezer (manual defrost, of course) down in the basement. Things tend to go down in large batches during harvest or after large costco adventures and then come up an item or three at a time for this week's dinners. Works well for us and doesn't impinge on space needed every day. If I had a big enough pantry (is there such a thing?) having it upstairs would be fine.

No way I'd want a big storage freezer taking up kitchen space, no matter how big my kitchen.

Yeah for having a big fridge and/or freezer in the garage or basement. We only keep the most important ingredients at hand. All the extra beverages and other items that were bought in bulk stay in the garage. Overflow storage is very useful. And it's so easy to unload the car directly into a fridge in the garage.

A warm pantry is a bad idea, as GreenDesigns said. If the pantry door is kept closed, you'll have a problem, especially in winter time (no cool air available to keep the temperature down).

We had a full freezer in our pantry and never had issues with temperature.

I have a chest freezer in my pantry, and there are no temperature issues. For me, it's in addition to the freezer in my fridge/freezer combo, which is too small for my life. I'm very happy with the arrangement, and it also acts as a landing space in the pantry for groceries being unloaded.