How wide, tall, and deep is the cabinet opening?

What are the dimensions of the space?

39 x 70 x 22

There are no 22” deep fridges. Even a built in is 24”. Someone goofed that up badly. If you place a standard depth 36” fridge in the alcove, that will stick way out into the door opening.

It is going to have to be relocated elsewhere.

Even a counter depth fridge is 30"-32". Is that a brand new "for resale" kitchen?

Just looked at the specs for a Bosch 500 series 36”.

Required Cutout Size (HxWxD) (in)
70 IN x 36 IN x 25 IN
Model: B36CD50SNS
When looking at refrigerators look at the spec pages to get all the measurements. I can’t seem to be able to attach them. This is just one example but if you look at 36” refrigerators counter depth you should be able to find one. Note the 22” might be hard but you are mostly to find it will be due to the doors which can add 4” or more which would be normal as they need room to open. Good luck

Thanks everyone! Since it doesn’t back up to the counters and is on a stand alone wall, I may scrap the cabinet for now and build around the fridge later.

Toni, you are reading the wrong dimension. That's just the fridge box. The doors and handles stick out from that to 31 1/8". That depth has to be factored in to that doorway usage.

If it's really only 22" from the back of the wall to the door frame, you unfortunately won't be able to fit a refrigerator there with or without the cabinet enclosure there--the depth is the limiting factor, rather than the height or width. Double check the depth measurement, though--that would be a really unusual size to build, and that looks like a standard over-refrigerator cabinet box over the space. It would be good to get the depth from the back wall to the front edge of the enclosure, and also from the back wall to the door opening. (It's hard to tell from the photo whether there's any space between the trim and the cabinet box--looks like not?)

"Since it doesn’t back up to the counters and is on a stand alone wall, I may scrap the cabinet for now and build around the fridge later."

As @artemis78 wrote, the problem is the depth of the refrigerator space i.e, the distance from the wall to the edge of the mudroom door trim. If this is the only location for a refrigerator I would say the best, one-time, not-cheap solution would be to narrow the mudroom door to expand the refrigerator space depth to, say, 32-33".

-- non-expert

I like your current fridge. :)

If you can remove the fridge surround with the floor intact (walls are easy enough to repair), maybe put a cute smaller fridge in the spot and have backup fridge in the laundry room?

(Smeg time!)

@Fori: "If you can remove the fridge surround with the floor intact...maybe put a cute smaller fridge in the spot"

But to not exceed the shallow depth, she'd be stuck with a refrigerator no wider than 24" such as this KitchenAid KBBX104E (10 cubic feet).

But that's not cute!

Correction: I stopped using my iphone measuring app and grabbed a old school tape measure. The depth is 29” to the door of the mud room.

That is great news! How deep is the enclosure itself (measuring from the wall to the front edge of the cabinetry)? And how tall if you measure from the tile to the top of the inside of the enclosure? It sounds like a shallow counter-depth refrigerator would work well there. We have the Bosch linked below, which would fit; we also looked at the Fisher & Paykel counter-depth refrigerator, which I think was a little shorter. Kitchen Aid also makes a relatively shallow model--those three were the shallowest we found as far as the thickness of the door plus handles to keep your doorway as clear as possible. The Bosch also comes in a version without actual handles (cutouts in the door to open it instead)--I didn't like that one aesthetically but it would be a great fit for a space where you don't want the projection of the handles.

The KitchenAid KRQC506MPS is pretty close at 30-3/8" deep including a 2" gap at the rear. Most of those mentioned above are disregarding the required 1-2" space at the rear of the refrigerator and/or the 70" height limit.

Both Bosch and F&P make taller and shorter models, and include the air space in their specified cabinet enclosure dimensions, so should work fine for OP. The F-P is the shallowest but it looks like they no longer offer a shorter 36” model (they used to)—now it’s only 32”, so probably not worth giving up the space if your enclosure is is 39” wide. The Bosch is about the same depth as the Kitchen Aid and needs 70”x25”x36”. (With the doors, it’s 28.75”.)

Bosch B36CD50SNS 36" Counter-Depth 3-Door Refrigerator

Dimensions with hinges and doors, no handles: 70"* x 35 5/8" x 28 3/4"

Use whatever frig you already have by wall hanging the cabinet. Move it up higher on the wall. If the frig is too short, cut the sides of the wood hanging down shorter. If the frig is too tall, add some wood trim at the bottom to hide the gap..

Pretty sure what we see in the photo is OP's current fridge! :D