How high off the floor would the drawers be? I would think need you would want to consider how much you enjoy bending over, now and as you age. I am 62 and after visiting my daughter's home and taking ice cubes from the rear of her freezer drawer, I learned that I could not be happy with that style refrigerator. And lifting heavier items from below waist level -- ugh!

I have frig drawers along with a 24" frig and a 24" freezer. The drawers are typiclaly 5 cu. ft and the frig is I think about 10-12 cu.ft. I guess it depends how big your family is and if you have a spare frig elsewhere. In my opinion, you would need at least 2 frig drawer units(each unit has 2 drawers in it). Also, I don't know that everything "fits well" in the frig drawers. They are deep, but you would have to pile things on top of each other. Have you seen any in person? If not, you should take a look and see if it would work. They are also much more costly for the amount of space you get than a frig.

How many people in your family? The largest capacity I've seen are only 6 cu ft.

malhgold basically wrote it for me. We've a 30" fridge column (and a separate 30" freezer column) plus some 24" fridge drawers (they also come wider, of course). Listen, they are super-handy for us in terms of keeping children's snacks / drinks and my husband's beer, and I love the glossy images SubZero promotes of doing away with a traditional fridge and having drawers placed hither and yon .... Having said that, I don't think I'd want to have them as my sole cold storage.

I'd have to plop stuff on top of stuff, and cross_stitch is right (for me): all those deep bends might get real old, real fast. And, I'd have to have a whole lot of them, and that cost would get real big, real fast.

But so they wouldn't be right for me, but I can see how they could be ideal for someone who'd rather have scads of countertop with less storage underneath. Or, someone who goes to the market every day or other day -- then they wouldn't need to store lots of things.

rmkitchen, do you have photos? I like the 30" column fridge & freezer too & think I might like an extra drawer or two also.

Sure marti8a!

Specifically, here are the columns:

And here are the fridge drawers:

This the link to my finished kitchen photo album.

We are really pleased with the Thermador columns!

Hmm. Maybe the narrow columns are the way to go. RMKitchen, what width are yours? And what do you use the drawers for?

Oh gosh, sorry, I see you answered my questions in your earlier post. Never mind and thanks!

It is not uncommon in Europe to use one or two undercounter refrigerators (like the kind you would see here in a dorm room), even for a family. With a chest freezer, undercounter or in another room.

It would also be much cheaper.

I had this setup in a flat I lived in and it worked fine. It just depends on how motivated you are.