Our fridge vents out the back (the wall behind is our laundry room, so we were able to push the fridge slightly into that space and will have a wall with vents in it once we finish that part of the remodel). We also have the toe kick vent, which my husband made a wood vent cover for that we painted the same color as the cabinets.
Holy smoke… every tutorial video should be just like this! I was researching for readability and how-to before updating our kitchen and dang… this was perfect!!
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to calculate the offset for hinges. This puts it a slider! SMH, what a simple solution. I don’t love the gaps behind the panels, but saving about $6000 in my case I sure don’t mind that much!
Yeah, they did a great job. I’m doing this exact thing on my house. I looked at panel ready refrigerators and you’re really paying for the name. The consumer report said some of these namebrand Vikings are not even worth it.
Very slick install. These folks obviously did their homework to come up with the very elegant, tasteful solution (and paint color) depicted here. (And their dishwasher treatment is likewise awesome). Fine trim carpentry with nothing wonky going on to spoil the overall effect. I thought I was doing my homework, but I was still scratching my head and coming up empty until I stumbled upon this vid, so much appreciation goes out to them. You may have noticed that to get this type of install in the U.S, you'd also need to shell out millions of dollars for a mansion, or many thousands of dollars for the type of pre-configured integrated unit from brands typically not advertised to the masses. (Upwards of $15k in some cases.) But these UA-camrs came up with something just as worthy of attention for way less money, which was the slickest thing of all about this. The link for the "sliders" (as I'll call them) was out of stock, and unbelievably, these gizmos aren't marketed in the U.S. by anyone. I went to the UK version of Amazon, where I found a pair for $18 delivered. (About 6 weeks delivery time.) You can have them delivered for about $2 if you're willing to wait about an additional month. (Total cost in that case about $10.) The Amazon UK site has oodles of them for sale branded differently, but they all appear to be exactly alike, which would imply that they all originate from the company depicted here. Probably are all cranked out off the same assembly line. I learned (from watching YT videos) that this type of install is very common in the UK, regardless of the cost of the appliance, thus the proliferation of those sliding brackets on the UK Amazon site as well as only being able to get them from the UK via eBay. Why this is the case is beyond me, as the practice naturally begs to be common in the U.S. as well. But if you have a small kitchen - such as I do - a totally integrated install such as this is the way to go, if you can otherwise manipulate the space. That huge blob of stainless steel doesn't shout so much tucked away to the side in a large kitchen, but it _hollers_ in a small kitchen, as if to say, "look at me - I've overtaken your space with my large, shiny presence." And covering them up prevents your having to coordinate all the finishes of your appliances.
I had to pause and say this.. U are EXCELLENT with your commentary and on point with everything he was doing in the video for people like me. I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicely done, designed, explained, shot, and edited. Brief and to the point!! I love how "get on with it" your process is (of course, after all the thoughtful work was done). I can stand around braining something forever, and your lean approach is inspiring, so thank you.
Someone mentioned the doors can't be opened fully. Could you get a hinge that fully extends and add an extra slide to accommodate the full range of motion? Also how is this holding up?
Great information and inspiring. I had no idea these sliders existed. Wow! High-end look for us budget-minded people. Beautiful kitchen❤ You earned another subscriber🙂
Thank you for making and sharing this video, were i come from, having the appliances on display is not of our preference, so I ask my husband if we could put door panels and hide them and he was skeptical, this video and your other video for the dishwasher help me win the battle we had over this 😂 😜❤ Thanks!!
We unscrew the brackets from the fridge so that the doors open wider, and then take them out. It doesn't take too long to do. For me, it's worth the few extra minutes of work when I do actually want to deep clean. 😄
This looks like a great idea. I'd like to know about the opening of the doors. Can you get a full opening of the doors, like to take out the shelves for cleaning, etc? It almost seems like they would just open to the straight out position and not beyond, so I'm curious. Thanks!
Yes, our doors only open to the straight out position. (If you have straight fridge doors, you would be able to open them further, ours are slightly curved). We are able to take out our long drawer with the doors open. We do have to disconnect the panels from the fridge doors if we want to take the other two drawers out. It takes about 5 minutes to do that, it's just unscrewing the screws. So annoying, but worth it to me to be able to have a pretty fridge! Haha!
@@TheMerrythought I know literally nothing about construction therefore forgive me if this is an obvious answer - is it possible to obtain door hinges for the cabinet panels that open beyond the 180 degree angle? Then would this not allow one to open the fridge doors all the way?
Do you have any thoughts about how to adapt this to a frig door that has the water/ice dispenser in the front of the door?? I imagine a cut out but how to make it pretty? You're so clever! 🎉
It would depend on your water dispenser, if it stuck out from the fridge or was flush with the door. If it's flush with the door, you would be able to do this with a cut out. Putting a trim molding around the cut out would help give it a prettier/more finished look. So on ours, I would have made it match the shaker style molding we have around the panel doors.
Wish i cud send u a photo of the home im in Contingency with just to ask if u thnk that kitchen set up wud work with this diy... im obsessed great job... 👍🏾
Are you able to take out the fridge drawers to clean them without taking off the sliders? Seems like the door might not be able to fully open and is it somewhat restricted from fully opening with the slides.
Right. I’m thinking up alternate ways to do this so the doors can swing all the way open! But I love the simplicity and low cost of just doing this yourself!
It would depend on your water dispenser, if it stuck out from the fridge or was flush with the door. If it's flush with the door, you would be able to do this with a cut out. Putting a trim molding around the cut out would help give it a prettier/more finished look. So on ours, I would have made it match the shaker style molding we have around the panel doors.
Great job, if it were me, I’d skip the hinges and just let the door handles be the sole mode of attachment so I don’t have to drill into the refrigerator
It is hard to see this done on a stainless fridge. I would get a white fridge and then do this. Either way great job. I really like the knobs on the freezer they look richer. Take care and thank you.
im gunna try to ask this and make as much sense as possible haha. Since the fridge door swings open faster than the cabinet door because of the hinge being farther back does it make opening the door kinda hard or stick in spots or is it just as smooth as if it were before because of those slides.
Can you share the depth of your fridge and the depth of the cabinet you installed it in? I keep finding fridges that are deeper than standard depth counters, even though they’re “counter depth”. Wonderful explanation!
Our fridge cabinet measures 24-3/4" deep. However, our fridge is pushed back into the room behind it. So that's how we were able to make our cabinet depth shorter than the depth of our fridge. Our fridge is 33" deep.
Thanks! The doors only open 90 degrees. For us it didn't matter, our old fridge was next to a wall, so we've never been able to open fridge doors fully. It hasn't been an issue for us, but maybe it's just because we don't know what we're missing out on - haha!
Are you able to open or use the fridge drawer on the bottom if the doors don’t open completely? I’m sourcing a fridge now so will look for one w/out drawer in case I can’t get my doors to open. TY so much for this hack!
You did such a good job, I’d like to try this in my kitchen. Can you please tell me where I can locate the refrigerator cabinet “door panel slides” in the United States?
My husband was impressed with your solution, but he expressed the concern that screwing cabinet doors onto the refrigerator would void the manufacturer's warranty. Do you know whether your work voided the warranty on your refrigerator?
The hidden hinges stick out further when you open the door, so you would have to make the opening wider so they wouldn't hit the fridge door. But it does seem like it would work, keeping that in mind!
Thank you so much for sharing ... I have the fridigidare all fridge all freezer do ubthink it would work for this ... or the fridge doors would be too heavy ?
Hi! How is this project holding up? I think this is genius but my contractor is weary of rust and breakage. Would love and feedback you have now a few months later. Thank you!
You can check to see if you can find any information on that in your manual or from the manufacturer. The majority probably don't have any lines in the door, unless they have water or ice on the door (which you probably wouldn't be doing this DIY on that kind of fridge). But double check on your specific model to be sure!
The hidden hinges stick out further when you open the door, so you would have to make the opening wider so they wouldn't hit the fridge door. But it does seem like it would work, keeping that in mind!
To use the hidden hinges, we would have had to make the opening larger to compensate for how the hinges stick out more when the door is opened. Space was a bigger want for us, so we went with these hinges, that match some cabinets on the other side of our kitchen.
I love your vidéo! You show how to add the doors, but about the built in in which the fridge is? Is there another video explaining how you did it or did you buy it?
Hi! Our fridge is vented out the bottom, which you can see in the video, and it's also vented out the back. Our fridge backs into our laundry room so we were able to add a vent on the wall behind it.
As we mentioned, our fridge is well ventilated, there's ventilation at the bottom, out the back and around the edges. It's holding up great, we've had no issues with it!
Just a question for someone with this setup... What if the refrigerator is broken and needs to be fixed from behind? Do you guys have to take out the entire wooden setup like unscrew and all?
If we ever needed to slide the fridge out to access the back, we would unscrew the slides and then slide the fridge door off from the panels, then the fridge could slide out. (You can see what that looks like at about 4:37 in the video). It'd take about 2 minutes to do, so not a big deal!
How did you come up with the rough opening measurements to accommodate for this hardware? For the fridge door and cabinet door to move smoothly without stressing the plastic glides, wouldn't the cabinet frame have to be fairly precise relative to the fridge door? Nice work by the way!
You would need to look at your fridge and look at how the doors open. Find the width of the fridge with the doors open, then give it some extra space on each side. You also need to take into consideration the thickness of the panels going on the fridge doors.
So glad you like it! We didn't document the process for making the panels, however we do have a video for making the cabinet doors in our kitchen and it was a similar process! You can find that here: ua-cam.com/video/cGVEy5mUqHk/v-deo.html
@@himanirathore4572 - the fridge is ventilated at the bottom toe kick, we made a custom wood vent cover and painted it the same color as the cabinets, you can see it in some of the shots. It's also ventilated out the back. Our laundry room is behind the fridge, so we were able to push back slightly into that, and the wall built behind the fridge will have ventilation in it (the laundry room renovation is still in process, right now it's just open space behind the fridge). You definitely want to have some kind of ventilation for your refrigerator to run efficiently!
It's amazing! So grateful for this! I was wondering if you could please share the size of the panels? I'm a little confused on if they should be measured to the box or if they are the same size as the doors? Thank you!
I figured out how to search last comments and see that you made the cabinet opening 39 1/2”. I’m going to try to go with a 42” opening with the idea that if in the future I or someone wants to put a built in they would not have to change the cabinets.
Our fridge has vents at the bottom and the back (we were able to do this since it backs up to our laundry room). Air circulates around the fridge since there is space around the sides and top inside the cabinet, and ventilation has been fine!
Glad you like it! We made our panels, you can also buy them from cabinet companies. We didn't record the process for how we made the panels, but we do have a video on how we made our cabinet doors, which is a similar process. You can find that here: ua-cam.com/video/cGVEy5mUqHk/v-deo.html
Hey, Nice Video. One doubt though. When you install cabinets so close on all sides of the fridge, don't there need to be some kind of passage for the hot air that comes from the back of fridge to move out? Sorry asking, I wanted to know bcz I'm planning do just this. But am concerned.
Thanks for this! Is it safe to drill into the sides of the doors to mount the brackets? Just want to make sure that there isn't a seal that we'd be breaking in that area!
You should be able to see where the seal is on the door, so you're not drilling into that. As far as anything else inside the door, you can check to see if you can find any information on that in your manual or from the manufacturer. The majority probably don't have any lines in the door, unless they have water or ice on the door (which you probably wouldn't be doing this DIY on that kind of fridge). But double check on your specific model to be sure!
Our fridge cabinet measures 24-3/4" deep. However, our fridge is pushed back into the room behind it. So that's how we were able to make our cabinet depth shorter than the depth of our fridge. Our fridge is 33" deep.
It seems like it should work. It would involve a little more in figuring out how the hinges opening differently would affect the doors, but should be doable!
I love how you did this. Can I ask how you manage ventilation for the fridge?
Our fridge vents out the back (the wall behind is our laundry room, so we were able to push the fridge slightly into that space and will have a wall with vents in it once we finish that part of the remodel). We also have the toe kick vent, which my husband made a wood vent cover for that we painted the same color as the cabinets.
@@TheMerrythought that's clever!
Thanks for this. You guys did a great job. It looks amazing 100 percent!❤
Holy smoke… every tutorial video should be just like this! I was researching for readability and how-to before updating our kitchen and dang… this was perfect!!
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to calculate the offset for hinges. This puts it a slider! SMH, what a simple solution. I don’t love the gaps behind the panels, but saving about $6000 in my case I sure don’t mind that much!
Well, as a professional kitchen designer, I was very skeptical at first… a really good job. I’m very impressed.
Yeah, they did a great job. I’m doing this exact thing on my house. I looked at panel ready refrigerators and you’re really paying for the name. The consumer report said some of these namebrand Vikings are not even worth it.
It is really crazy how much more expensive the refrigerators set up for panels are than regular appliances. No way is the cost justified. Nice job!
Especially if ur looking to upgrade because of bumps and bruises u can hide it perfectly
Very slick install. These folks obviously did their homework to come up with the very elegant, tasteful solution (and paint color) depicted here. (And their dishwasher treatment is likewise awesome). Fine trim carpentry with nothing wonky going on to spoil the overall effect. I thought I was doing my homework, but I was still scratching my head and coming up empty until I stumbled upon this vid, so much appreciation goes out to them.
You may have noticed that to get this type of install in the U.S, you'd also need to shell out millions of dollars for a mansion, or many thousands of dollars for the type of pre-configured integrated unit from brands typically not advertised to the masses. (Upwards of $15k in some cases.) But these UA-camrs came up with something just as worthy of attention for way less money, which was the slickest thing of all about this.
The link for the "sliders" (as I'll call them) was out of stock, and unbelievably, these gizmos aren't marketed in the U.S. by anyone. I went to the UK version of Amazon, where I found a pair for $18 delivered. (About 6 weeks delivery time.) You can have them delivered for about $2 if you're willing to wait about an additional month. (Total cost in that case about $10.)
The Amazon UK site has oodles of them for sale branded differently, but they all appear to be exactly alike, which would imply that they all originate from the company depicted here. Probably are all cranked out off the same assembly line.
I learned (from watching YT videos) that this type of install is very common in the UK, regardless of the cost of the appliance, thus the proliferation of those sliding brackets on the UK Amazon site as well as only being able to get them from the UK via eBay. Why this is the case is beyond me, as the practice naturally begs to be common in the U.S. as well.
But if you have a small kitchen - such as I do - a totally integrated install such as this is the way to go, if you can otherwise manipulate the space. That huge blob of stainless steel doesn't shout so much tucked away to the side in a large kitchen, but it _hollers_ in a small kitchen, as if to say, "look at me - I've overtaken your space with my large, shiny presence." And covering them up prevents your having to coordinate all the finishes of your appliances.
As an interior designer this was amazing!! Well done video and instructions. I’m doing this on a small period designed kitchen!!!
Glad it was helpful! I'm sure it will be gorgeous!
I had to pause and say this.. U are EXCELLENT with your commentary and on point with everything he was doing in the video for people like me. I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing!! Y’all just saved me a fortune 😃
Yay! Love to hear that! We were hoping to help people achieve high end looks without having to spend a lot money!
Nicely done, designed, explained, shot, and edited. Brief and to the point!! I love how "get on with it" your process is (of course, after all the thoughtful work was done). I can stand around braining something forever, and your lean approach is inspiring, so thank you.
This is beautiful! You did a lovely job! It surely beat paying 10,000 for a refrigerator. Oh how I wish someone could do mine!
thank you so much!
Wow. This is the prettiest paneled fridge I've seen. Amazing job.
Answered my question perfectly , Now I know, this Can be done , Thank You a Good instructional Video
Glad it helped!
Never knew this can be done. Thanks for the vid!
Someone mentioned the doors can't be opened fully. Could you get a hinge that fully extends and add an extra slide to accommodate the full range of motion? Also how is this holding up?
This is dope. The only example I could find using regular fridge. Thank you
Glad you like it!
Great information and inspiring. I had no idea these sliders existed. Wow! High-end look for us budget-minded people. Beautiful kitchen❤ You earned another subscriber🙂
Thank you for making and sharing this video, were i come from, having the appliances on display is not of our preference, so I ask my husband if we could put door panels and hide them and he was skeptical, this video and your other video for the dishwasher help me win the battle we had over this 😂 😜❤ Thanks!!
I cant say thank you enough! Best Hack EVER! Iv’e been looking for a solution with no luck and was thinking I needed to remove the door skins! Xx
can't wait to do this! THANK YOU for your detailed instructions!
Good luck with doing it! It's still one of my favorite projects we've done!
Can you send me step by step directions and all material and where you bought materials. Thanks Linda
This is so so so helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Fabulous concept and execution. Doable, inexpensive, and luxurious looking. thank you
I love the new look, awesome job.
God bless🙏
Thanks for this video. We’re going to try to have our contractor do this. Well done! New subscriber here!
Love it ! Just wondering how you get the crisper drawers out for cleaning
We unscrew the brackets from the fridge so that the doors open wider, and then take them out. It doesn't take too long to do. For me, it's worth the few extra minutes of work when I do actually want to deep clean. 😄
This looks like a great idea. I'd like to know about the opening of the doors. Can you get a full opening of the doors, like to take out the shelves for cleaning, etc? It almost seems like they would just open to the straight out position and not beyond, so I'm curious. Thanks!
Yes, our doors only open to the straight out position. (If you have straight fridge doors, you would be able to open them further, ours are slightly curved). We are able to take out our long drawer with the doors open. We do have to disconnect the panels from the fridge doors if we want to take the other two drawers out. It takes about 5 minutes to do that, it's just unscrewing the screws. So annoying, but worth it to me to be able to have a pretty fridge! Haha!
@@TheMerrythought I know literally nothing about construction therefore forgive me if this is an obvious answer - is it possible to obtain door hinges for the cabinet panels that open beyond the 180 degree angle? Then would this not allow one to open the fridge doors all the way?
2 years later. Thank you ❤
It will be 3 years this fall that we've had the fridge like this, and it's still good! 🙂
Impressive! The only thing i would change would be proper long handles
Thank you! I told my hubby i want to do this hes like can't be done. I beg to differ Sir! Im gonna do same for my stove front!
Just when I thought I was finished with my kitchen cabinets you pulled me back in lol
😂
Me too!!!
This is a God send! 🙌🏾 Thank you for sharing
This is genius and now I have so many ideas for our upcoming remodel!
So glad it's helpful, good luck on the upcoming remodel! :)
Can you open your fridge doors beyound the 45 degree handles, so you can pull out the inside drawers?
Do you have any thoughts about how to adapt this to a frig door that has the water/ice dispenser in the front of the door?? I imagine a cut out but how to make it pretty? You're so clever! 🎉
Following!
It would depend on your water dispenser, if it stuck out from the fridge or was flush with the door. If it's flush with the door, you would be able to do this with a cut out. Putting a trim molding around the cut out would help give it a prettier/more finished look. So on ours, I would have made it match the shaker style molding we have around the panel doors.
Awesome job n explanation once I redo the kitchen following these steps wife will deftly love this
Wish i cud send u a photo of the home im in Contingency with just to ask if u thnk that kitchen set up wud work with this diy... im obsessed great job... 👍🏾
Are you able to take out the fridge drawers to clean them without taking off the sliders? Seems like the door might not be able to fully open and is it somewhat restricted from fully opening with the slides.
Right. I’m thinking up alternate ways to do this so the doors can swing all the way open! But I love the simplicity and low cost of just doing this yourself!
curious how to remove my wine cooler handles which is well and fully sealed.
Any thoughts on incorporating an ice maker on the door
It would depend on your water dispenser, if it stuck out from the fridge or was flush with the door. If it's flush with the door, you would be able to do this with a cut out. Putting a trim molding around the cut out would help give it a prettier/more finished look. So on ours, I would have made it match the shaker style molding we have around the panel doors.
what is the finish used on these kitchen shutters the white ones?
any suggestions thank you in advance.
How is it holding up 2 years later? Would love to know :)
It's holding up great! No issues with it!
This video alone was worth a sub. Keep it up
This is so creative and the results turned out to good! Thanks for sharing!
You guys are the best from the best!!! So glad I found you!🙌😘😘
Yay! Thank you!
Beautiful job! Nicely done. I want this.👏👏👏
Thank you! 😊
Very helpful and well done!
Thank you!
Great job, if it were me, I’d skip the hinges and just let the door handles be the sole mode of attachment so I don’t have to drill into the refrigerator
This is fantastic, been wanting to do this didn't know how, thank you.
I love this. May I ask where you purchased the cabinets you used?
Awesome and so simple
What was the total project cost? And time involved?
Thank you for teaching me , now part 2 how to convince my partner to get panels done 😅 on our fridge
It is hard to see this done on a stainless fridge. I would get a white fridge and then do this. Either way great job. I really like the knobs on the freezer they look richer. Take care and thank you.
im gunna try to ask this and make as much sense as possible haha. Since the fridge door swings open faster than the cabinet door because of the hinge being farther back does it make opening the door kinda hard or stick in spots or is it just as smooth as if it were before because of those slides.
Can you share the depth of your fridge and the depth of the cabinet you installed it in? I keep finding fridges that are deeper than standard depth counters, even though they’re “counter depth”. Wonderful explanation!
Our fridge cabinet measures 24-3/4" deep. However, our fridge is pushed back into the room behind it. So that's how we were able to make our cabinet depth shorter than the depth of our fridge. Our fridge is 33" deep.
@@TheMerrythought thank you for the reply. I appreciate it! You did a LOVELY job!
You guys did an amazing job, thank you for the video !
thanks so much!
Amazing work! Love it! Can you open the refrigerator beyond 90 degrees? It won't necessarily matter for my project, but I'm still curious.
Thanks! The doors only open 90 degrees. For us it didn't matter, our old fridge was next to a wall, so we've never been able to open fridge doors fully. It hasn't been an issue for us, but maybe it's just because we don't know what we're missing out on - haha!
Are you able to open or use the fridge drawer on the bottom if the doors don’t open completely? I’m sourcing a fridge now so will look for one w/out drawer in case I can’t get my doors to open. TY so much for this hack!
Great video and solution! Can you tell me what model that fridge is?
It's a Whirlpool, model #:WRF535SWHZ05
Do your doors open enough to open your vegetable drawers all the way? I thought you needed special hinges like you find on integrated refrigerators.
Omg!!! I'm so in love with this!! 🥰😍💕
Can we drill a hole in any refrigerator door?
Awesome thank you
Easy enough, but when opened looks a bit diy. Are there higher effort ways to do this for a better DIY finish?
I’d say get creative and see what you can make up. 🤷🏾♀️
Possibly. We are fine with this look, and didn't want to spend any more money on it, so we are good with this.
You did such a good job, I’d like to try this in my kitchen. Can you please tell me where I can locate the refrigerator cabinet “door panel slides” in the United States?
So far, we've only been able to find the door panel slides in the UK, as linked.
@@TheMerrythought Thank you!
My husband was impressed with your solution, but he expressed the concern that screwing cabinet doors onto the refrigerator would void the manufacturer's warranty. Do you know whether your work voided the warranty on your refrigerator?
It's possible it could void the warranty. We didn't check, we just took the risk!
Great vid! What am I missing.. Why 8 sliding brackets? I'm counting 4...
We used two brackets at each spot, so 2 upper & lower, on both doors. (They needed to be longer, so that's why we had to use 2 of each).
Got it. Thanks for the response. I was scratching my head!
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I am looking at doing this in a new build. How have the plastic brackets held up since you installed it.
They've held up great! No issues in the two years that we've had them!
Beautiful result! Would it be possible to do with concealed inset hinges?
The hidden hinges stick out further when you open the door, so you would have to make the opening wider so they wouldn't hit the fridge door. But it does seem like it would work, keeping that in mind!
@@TheMerrythoughtThank you!
What if you have a water/ice dispenser in the door? Can you share how to trim out the dispenser?
I was wondering about this too…any thoughts anyone?
Thank you so much for sharing ... I have the fridigidare all fridge all freezer do ubthink it would work for this ... or the fridge doors would be too heavy ?
Hi! I have the same. Did you do it? If so how is it working for you?
Love love love love love this video thank you so much.
Hi! How is this project holding up? I think this is genius but my contractor is weary of rust and breakage. Would love and feedback you have now a few months later. Thank you!
It's held up great! We haven't had issues with it and it's been almost a year since we did this!
How did you know it was ok to drill into the doors? I want to do this, but am concerned I will hit lines inside the door.
You can check to see if you can find any information on that in your manual or from the manufacturer. The majority probably don't have any lines in the door, unless they have water or ice on the door (which you probably wouldn't be doing this DIY on that kind of fridge). But double check on your specific model to be sure!
What colour are your cabinates!! Im in love !
They are Sherwin Williams Accessible Beige!
I also would like to ask if you could have used hidden hinges? (European hinges?)
The hidden hinges stick out further when you open the door, so you would have to make the opening wider so they wouldn't hit the fridge door. But it does seem like it would work, keeping that in mind!
@@TheMerrythought Thank you!
Is there any reason you did exposed hinges instead of standard cabinet style hinges?
To use the hidden hinges, we would have had to make the opening larger to compensate for how the hinges stick out more when the door is opened. Space was a bigger want for us, so we went with these hinges, that match some cabinets on the other side of our kitchen.
Are you able to do this with cabinets that are not inset?
I would think you could do that, it might be even easier to do, since the doors swing out of the way.
I love your vidéo! You show how to add the doors, but about the built in in which the fridge is? Is there another video explaining how you did it or did you buy it?
So glad you like it! We did build the cabinet that surrounds the fridge, however we didn't document the process, sorry!
Probably a silly question (first time DIYer)- how or where did you purchase the panels for the fridge? Were they custom? Thanks!
Not a silly question at all - we made ours. We shared how we did that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/vJWh4Nx2PH4/v-deo.html.
Is it ok not having any ventilation behind the refrigerator?
Hi! Our fridge is vented out the bottom, which you can see in the video, and it's also vented out the back. Our fridge backs into our laundry room so we were able to add a vent on the wall behind it.
i mean it looks great but refrigerators need air circulation, not sure it's a good idea to put it in a box. How is it holding up?
As we mentioned, our fridge is well ventilated, there's ventilation at the bottom, out the back and around the edges. It's holding up great, we've had no issues with it!
Just a question for someone with this setup... What if the refrigerator is broken and needs to be fixed from behind? Do you guys have to take out the entire wooden setup like unscrew and all?
If we ever needed to slide the fridge out to access the back, we would unscrew the slides and then slide the fridge door off from the panels, then the fridge could slide out. (You can see what that looks like at about 4:37 in the video). It'd take about 2 minutes to do, so not a big deal!
How did you come up with the rough opening measurements to accommodate for this hardware? For the fridge door and cabinet door to move smoothly without stressing the plastic glides, wouldn't the cabinet frame have to be fairly precise relative to the fridge door? Nice work by the way!
You would need to look at your fridge and look at how the doors open. Find the width of the fridge with the doors open, then give it some extra space on each side. You also need to take into consideration the thickness of the panels going on the fridge doors.
Wow I love how this looks!!! Well done Thank you for sharing
Can you share how you made the panel?
So glad you like it! We didn't document the process for making the panels, however we do have a video for making the cabinet doors in our kitchen and it was a similar process! You can find that here: ua-cam.com/video/cGVEy5mUqHk/v-deo.html
How does the fridge get ventilation out of this? Is it safe to do so for long run of the fridge?
@@himanirathore4572 - the fridge is ventilated at the bottom toe kick, we made a custom wood vent cover and painted it the same color as the cabinets, you can see it in some of the shots. It's also ventilated out the back. Our laundry room is behind the fridge, so we were able to push back slightly into that, and the wall built behind the fridge will have ventilation in it (the laundry room renovation is still in process, right now it's just open space behind the fridge). You definitely want to have some kind of ventilation for your refrigerator to run efficiently!
It's amazing! So grateful for this! I was wondering if you could please share the size of the panels? I'm a little confused on if they should be measured to the box or if they are the same size as the doors? Thank you!
The cabinet just needs to be as wide as the fridge is with its doors 90 degrees open plus the width of the little slides.
What about ventilation?
This is so great! We are going to do this for sure. How much larger did you make the interior cabinet space than the refrigerator dimensions? Thanks!
I figured out how to search last comments and see that you made the cabinet opening 39 1/2”. I’m going to try to go with a 42” opening with the idea that if in the future I or someone wants to put a built in they would not have to change the cabinets.
What size is your fridge? Is it counter depth?
Our fridge is 33" deep, it's pushed back a few inches into the room behind it, so that's how we were able to fit it into a normal depth cabinet.
Will your fridge cool properly now that you have no side and top ventilation
Our fridge has vents at the bottom and the back (we were able to do this since it backs up to our laundry room). Air circulates around the fridge since there is space around the sides and top inside the cabinet, and ventilation has been fine!
is it not risky to drill holes into the fridge?
How much space to the sides do you have between the cabinet walls and the fridge?
There's 2-1/4 inches on each side of the refrigerator and 4-1/4 inches at the top.
Cost please
Simply Amazing ! Where and how did you get the panel ?
Glad you like it! We made our panels, you can also buy them from cabinet companies. We didn't record the process for how we made the panels, but we do have a video on how we made our cabinet doors, which is a similar process. You can find that here: ua-cam.com/video/cGVEy5mUqHk/v-deo.html
Hey, Nice Video.
One doubt though.
When you install cabinets so close on all sides of the fridge, don't there need to be some kind of passage for the hot air that comes from the back of fridge to move out?
Sorry asking, I wanted to know bcz I'm planning do just this. But am concerned.
Thanks for this! Is it safe to drill into the sides of the doors to mount the brackets? Just want to make sure that there isn't a seal that we'd be breaking in that area!
You should be able to see where the seal is on the door, so you're not drilling into that. As far as anything else inside the door, you can check to see if you can find any information on that in your manual or from the manufacturer. The majority probably don't have any lines in the door, unless they have water or ice on the door (which you probably wouldn't be doing this DIY on that kind of fridge). But double check on your specific model to be sure!
where can i find the specs of the depth of the cabinet for the fridge?
Our fridge cabinet measures 24-3/4" deep. However, our fridge is pushed back into the room behind it. So that's how we were able to make our cabinet depth shorter than the depth of our fridge. Our fridge is 33" deep.
I know it's been two years but how or who made the frig panels? Thanks!
We made our fridge panels. We shared a video on how we did that, you can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/vJWh4Nx2PH4/v-deo.htmlsi=80ftHI2FPmrBkLOZ.
@@TheMerrythought Oh thanks bunches for the reply!
Would this project still work with hidden hinges?
It seems like it should work. It would involve a little more in figuring out how the hinges opening differently would affect the doors, but should be doable!