Options for Supporting a Deep Cabinet over a Refrigerator?
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Comments (12)No bad options on your list. Expect you've looked at most of them. Miele fridges are now made by Miele. xedos or deeageaux can fill in where they are made and which components come from where. Cannot recall the details. Thermador and Liebherr should be kinder to the budget. I had an excellent experience with my Liebherr fridge. Loved it and loved the two drawers and the ice maker as well. Some people feel the interior looks flimsy but it's not. Very tough. And the door is 0 clearance. My girlfriend's intergrated completely in her cabinetry and looked great. SZ and Miele are gold standard. SZ may have the most options in terms of configuration. I have a permanent crush on the 36-inch glass door fridge with drawers below but there's a premium for it. DD has the 36" Miele, bottom fridge. 0 issues. The lighting is amazing. Upper shelves in that fridge are very high so if it's a shortie house then that may rule out Miele. But the quality is very evident and they have an electronic module that monitors the fridge. DD also has 2 SZs with freezer drawers on the bottom in the house as well and both are paneled, look great, 0 issues....See MoreRefrigerator -- cabinets over it or not?
Comments (39)If you don't like the look of cabinets, maybe go with deep shelves that bridge between the pantry and end panel. Or basically a cabinet with no doors. You could set it up so that if ever you DID want doors, they could be easily attached. You could use the open shelves to put something decorative, a collection, or your lesser used cookbooks. It will give that wall a finished look, but an open shelf will keep you honest. You probably won't start piling things up there when you look at it every day, especially once everything else has a place. My first clue that I don't have enough storage is when things start getting piled up. I agree with the previous posters said, an empty space above the fridge looks unfinished, like something was meant to go there, but didn't. We're on our 4th house in 13 years of marriage. I've had several combinations, open, short shelves, wine rack above, and deep cabinets. My favorite, by far, is the deep cabinets. We did it on our current remodel. Even if I don't use it for everyday items, as someone else said, those items would be taking up valuable, reachable space otherwise. I also prefer the end panel for the fridge. I've had it on the end with no panel, and it just looks off, plus ours gets junked up with those advertisement magnets, pizza coupons, calendars, stickers, etc. We're not done with our kitchen yet, it seems we're getting one functional wall completed at a time. My run from L to R has a narrow pantry, counter depth fridge w/deep cabinet, and a tall oven/pantry cabinet. I haven't installed the shelf in the over fridge cab yet, but as of now it's got the extra rolls of paper towels, paper napkins, ziplocks - all bulk items. Before this, I had to store these items in the garage. I REALLY appreciate not having to do that anymore, especially when it's 15 degrees outside....See Moreover refrigerator cabinets
Comments (17)Thanks for all the pictures of your over fridge cabinets. I think we've decided to put one long horizontal shelf on bottom of cabinet, with a long verical divider between it. That still leaves a pretty big space above the horizontal shelf. Cabinet maker said it will be no problem for us to remove this and change the shelving if we decide this doesn't work. So, we need to stop worrying about "perfect" solution! It really will be hard for us to know how we'll use this space til we've put rest of items away in other cabinets. We will actually have a lot of new space way up high in upper cabinets over regular cabinets since we had cabinets built to ceiling. It won't be super easy to use (and if I'm here til I'm "old" I'll probably never get to them!), but I can reach all with a step stool, and because I'm so short (5 feet) I pretty much assume I need a step stool even for top shelves on regular cabinets. I did insist that our baking center have upper cabinets that come down lower than standard, just for me! I like the ideas for hiding presents in the space! This gets harder as the kids get older!...See MoreDeep, narrow pantry options
Comments (4)Another option for pullouts/interior drawers would be Blum's metabox line. You buy the drawer sides + glides, and brackets to attach the sides to the drawer front. Also, rear-mount brackets if you have face frame cabinets (not nec if your cab is frameless). Then you cut your drawer bottom, back, and front to the exact width you need. Here is a link that might be useful: Tutorial here (though they created regular drawers, while it sounds like you'll need interior drawers - no problem per metabox's instructions)...See Moredenkyem
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