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We have a refrigerator-depth divider panel between the fridge and the adjacent countertop.
When we had the cabinet installed over the fridge, we had it pulled out to the front of the refrigerator.
It is much easier to access when it is at the front. That placement also allows air flow behind the unit for better cooling.
And, of course, it is at a height that allows the most common appliances to fit easily under it.
That's what toll Brothers did with ours in 2012-13. I like the way it looks. And I can FINALLY use the thing, albeit for stuff that i need only a couple of times a year. I still need the step ladder.
I am a giant and like the extra cabinet on top of the fridge. It would look weird (despite the wasted space) if there was nothing. However, if you are lucky to have a huge kitchen, I would possibly get a massive fridge instead.
When referring regular size refrigerators, I have unintentionally ruffled some feathers. I was simply remembering my personal experience searching for French Door refrigerators. It's the type I I've noticed in my friends and families kitchens these days and they aren't gigantic, just organized differently than a freezer on top model of my grandparents era. Shopping online at AJ Madison for example, the most abundant number of models can be found in the 70 to 84 in high and 36 in wide range for French door, yet I find remodeled kitchens in for sale properties with space just 31in wide and 67 in high, reducing the number of options dramatically.
I find that over the fridge cabinet also gets warmer than I like to keep things. Glad to hear people actually love that space and find refrigerators that fit for them.
When remodeling my kitchen, I didn't like how far back the old over-fridge cabinet was. We did store rarely used stuff in there, but it was a pain to reach. So when putting in the new cabinets, I pulled that cabinet outward to match the tall pantry cabinet. Now that cabinet is easily usable even without a stepstool. And by moving the fridge down the wall a bit, I was able to add the entire set of cabinets and counter for a coffee nook.
I feel it's a dumb feature to cling to if needing more refrigerator space, as in a counter-depth KitchenAid side by side measuring 71" in height that was/is my dream fridge.
Well, for crying out loud, if the cabinets interfere with a taller fridge you want, then modify them!
For most people, more storage space is something we can always use; and there are lots of things that aren't used constantly. Especially in newer houses with 9 foot and higher ceilings, even with a 6 foot fridge you've got almost 3 feet of space over it. Why leave that open rather than using it for deep storage? You know, the pressure cooker, the cake plate, the second crock-pot, the Christmas dishes, that stuff.
I work in a cabinet shop and we do many very tall cabinets--not necessarily over the fridge, but some are located there. It seems to be a "thing" nowadays. We shake our heads and wonder how anyone is going to get up there to use the space, but conclude, as said here, that you put stuff up there when you move in and take it out when you move out!
Really, how are you going to access a nine-foot cabinet that stretches to ten feet at the ceiling? We buy 120" hardwood veneer plywood to build the boxes and it is mighty expensive as well.
I work in a cabinet shop and we do many very tall cabinets--not necessarily over the fridge, but some are located there. It seems to be a "thing" nowadays. We shake our heads and wonder how anyone is going to get up there to use the space, but conclude, as said here, that you put stuff up there when you move in and take it out when you move out!
Really, how are you going to access a nine-foot cabinet that stretches to ten feet at the ceiling? We buy 120" hardwood veneer plywood to build the boxes and it is mighty expensive as well.
Well, I'm 5'10" tall and I can easily reach to 7 feet. Put me on a two-foot-tall step-stool and I'm up to 9 feet. I keep one of these folded up beside my fridge at all times.
It's really not that confusing. You put rarely used stuff up there, as I noted: the Christmas dishes, Grandma's cake plate, the extra Crock-Pot you only use three times a year, the huge coffee urn you use four times a year for the church supper at your house, that kind of thing? you don't have any of that kind of stuff?
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