Home buying thread

Kobayashi said:

Is that supposed to be your fridge in the corner of the kitchen? I wouldn't butt it up to a wall like that, especially if you were doing a french door fridge. Also, not sure what styles of cooking you do, but I think putting your range where it is will make it difficult to do a vent to the exterior.

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If you have the fridge up next to a wall on that side you won't be able to open the left door all the way and you may have trouble getting stuff in and out of it.

Intrinsic said:

Right now we’re budgeting in the below for our appliance allowance. We’re going to plumb water and everything in the pantry for a freezer. Thought being that we’d rather use the kitchen space for one large fridge that we’ll open 200 times a day and not take up footprint with a freezer that we open minimally throughout a normal day.

I still have some concerns with it being there and blocking that pantry entrance regardless of which way it opens, so it is on our list of items to discuss.

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Usually those integrated ones are counter-depth rather than normal appliance depth, so they're a lot smaller than you would expect (they're not deep at all). We have 2 of those size sub-zeros in our kitchen side by side, and honestly it's a good amount of space but not nearly as much as it looks like from the front.

If you're going for practical rather than looks, I'd ditch that and get a commodity fridge (with no electronics as much as you can) thats free-standing. The counter-depth ones look fancy once installed but you really need your cabinets built in around it to give it the look you'll want, so you need custom cabinets as well.