Need advise for fridge placement remodeling
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sseibert
4 years ago
bens bride
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Help with fridge decision/placement!
Comments (3)I'm going through a fridge quandary myself. I have a French door in our temporary house and I can tell you that having landing space in front is vital. If you don't have this, I suggest crossing FD off the list. I'm looking at a KA single door without water or ice in the door. Both are located inside though. And interior useable space is one of my biggest issues. I'm surprised how many non-36" fridges there are. Most are less. You'd need a bit of air circulation space on the sides anyway so maybe the extra space won't show from the model you like. Could maybe place a huge piece of cardboard or the like up in the dimension you are considering to see how bad it would really look?...See MoreWhite, Black or Stainless? Please advise on fridge (pics)
Comments (25)I vote for a white fridge. Your dishwasher is directly across, and even with a panel change you would still have a fairly large portion of the top white. Have you thought about beadboard? It's sold in big sheets and is fairly inexpensive. I attached a site to show you how a beadboard kitchen would look. This one has SS appliances but note that it is also playing off a gray. Since you have plain face front cabinets, already painted, this might be a fairly inexpensive way to jazz up your kitchen. Note how they ran beadboard in the soffet area above the cabinets. Also, it was used as a backsplash. Buy sheets of inexpensive beadboard and molding and frame out new fronts using your existing cabinet doors. Then run it around the back of the bar. Change out the knobs. It looks like your overhead fan vent is a fairly inexpensive model. Probably wouldn't be too hard to remove, clean, and spray white. Paint the old paneling white until you can afford to replace it with beadboard. I think the white would go well with both your current counters and floor. However, you could also go with a glazed look if you decide to try the beadboard. Here is a link that might be useful: Beadboard kitchen...See MoreCritique this layout - struggling with sink and fridge placement.
Comments (7)This is not a layout that I would want - it would make me angry every time I tried to fix a meal. How large is the house / how many people? Do you cook more than just heat things up? Do you entertain in the kitchen? Where is the dishwasher? When the kitchen has space for "guests" (non cooks) I like a design that keeps them on the other side of the island and not in the work flow. Great if they can be there to talk or help... but bad if they get underfoot. The fridge on the other side of the room violates that. The work area for food prep is going to be the fridge, sink, counter (prep area). The work area for cleanup is going to be the sink, fridge, dishwasher, counter, trash The work area for breakfast and snacks is fridge, counter, dishes, food storage If you swapped the sink and range it would still be awkward, but not as bad. Put the dishwasher to the right of the sink (at the end) and the dish storage above the dishwasher. If that's a table in the lower left, it seems that you have a lot of space for sitting and not really much space for cooking. If this were mine, I'd be looking at what I could do to make more substantial fixes to the layout. As it is, you are going to be constantly walking around the island to get to the fridge which is off by itself....See Morekitchen layout - Placement of Fridge ( Help needed)
Comments (17)Jeet Jeet- Before you sign on all these add ons, please hire an experienced interior designer that is not affiliated in any way with this builder, to ask about all this. And you want someone who has common sense who will tell you what is a waste of money. Someone who will say to you, how will you change the light bulbs on the top of those cabinets? And what do you need lights there for anyway? There is glass in the top, you can see in them why do you need the lights, the room is lit. And you don't need the glass cabinets either, all the cabinets will have to be totally perfectly neat all the time. Who needs that? And it limits what you can put in them because they have to be perfectly neat. Ask how much the undercabinet lighting is. I'll bet you money that you can get a far less expensive stick-on lighting system at Home Depot or Lowes. A 50 " deep island is too deep. You can't reach across it to clean it, you will have to walk around which is a waste of time and energy. Unless you are 6 feet tall. Very important- don't spend too much money over-improving. You will never make it back when you sell. Your house will only sell for the average house value in that development which you can be sure, was not over-improved. I do suggest finding out if you can soundproof your guest bedroom on the first floor, else there will be problems with your elderly parents. Don't ask the builder to install the grab bars, but do have the builder reinforce behind and beside the guest toilet and in the shower. It may be much cheaper for you to purchase grab bars and hire someone to install the grab bars if and when they are needed. You can ask what the builder would charge to install the grab bars. It may be worth the cost for the builder to just go ahead and do the whole thing for you. See, this is way more important to me than fancy glass-fronted cabinets. And did you choose slip resistant tile for the bathroom?...See Morebens bride
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4 years agoThank you for answering my barrage of questions. This is so much fun for me. You have no idea.
Do you have any idea if that opening by the laundry can be cut back? Do you know how far it is from the family room wall to the right side of the pipes?
sseibert
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4 years agoartistsharonva
4 years agoartistsharonva
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThis layout looks doable with a few adjustments.
Make island deeper to be more proportionate in layout,
keep 48 '' in front of stove & fridge. seating on 1 or 2 sides.
move sink more towards center or at least 15'' away from edge.
This also helps with fridge opening issues.
I would also stack glass on the 2 cabinets on both sides of stove & bring those cabinets to reachable level,too. Copy the window wall cabinet look.
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4 years ago
mama goose_gw zn6OH
4 years agoI don't know if this would be doable because of the configuration of the brick wall, but if you go with the idea to close the office door and put the fridge on that wall, would the French hutch fit in the space you had original slated for the fridge? In the clean-up area it could store some of your dishes.
sseibert
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI love Mama G's office entrance solution. It'll be so nice for guests to use the powder without going into your office.
I tried several other ideas this evening, but circled back around to basically what mama posted. I tweaked my original drawing to just one fridge instead of the separate towers. I made some best-guesses on a few dimensions, but I'll go ahead and post my drawings in case they help facilitate constructive discussions with your crew.
A happy accident I noticed is that your island looks like it's centered on your kitchen window :-)
There will likely be a huge temptation to push the cabinetry all the way to the doorway. Please . resist and align the end of the island with the end of the cabinets. It'll look and flow so much better.
Good luck!
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4 years ago@JAN MOYER we are going with @mama goose_gw zn6OH and @bens bride bride suggestion of creating new entrance and access to office/powder room from hallway. This allows us to have a much longer wall to work with.
sseibert
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4 years agoartistsharonva
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoIf going to do the wider hood option down to counters do it wide enough to have at least 24" of counter landing space on both sides. Do not make too wide the areas that come down,too.
Here's a quick sketch
Here's 1 more, note you will loose wall cabinet storage, so if you do this make sure you have enough storage elsewhere.
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4 years ago@artistsharonva right now the latest design has 23" on either side of range. I'll post once I tweak it some more. Many of the ranges in the photos are 48" or more. Mine is 40" and looks like this:
And my fridge is full integrated and panel ready and looks like this:
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4 years agoI just want to point out (and should have when I posted the plan), that I included a side-loading pantry to the left of the fridge. I couldn't find a pantry on your plan, which why I also included the storage area near the PR/office entry. If the hutch is going in that space, you might want to consider including a tall pantry cabinet in the space where the fridge was originally drawn.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHave you thought about other cabinet styles that might be "inspired" by your hutch? I tried to find something that had your style range...
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