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This is a refrigerator, right?

2 months ago

I saw this on For The Love of Old Houses. Looks like an ice box, but it’s a modern fridge, right?



What do you think, would you do it?

Comments (23)

  • 2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    Could it just be an old ice box turned into cabinet storage space? Is there a fridge somewhere else? I would incorporate that into my kitchen if "old stuff" was my style. Looks like quartersawn oak which I love.

  • 2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    To me it seems a bit silly— the openings are small, there’s a lot of inaccesible area. I hope it is a silly AI dream.

    Oh yeah— no apparent ventilation for refrigeration components if the exist unless mounted elsewhere.

  • 2 months ago

    I dunno but that is a lot of tile!

  • 2 months ago

    I think Mtn is right - it's a SZ with faux vintage cabinetry. I'd consider incorporating the real thing but no interest in fake.

  • 2 months ago

    A friend rescued an old icebox from the town ”dump” and uses it for general storage in the kitchen.

  • 2 months ago

    Does SubZero make the panels, or do you have to get a carpenter?

  • 2 months ago

    It’s an odd old house. Here’s a bathroom. It looks funky at first but nice tile, and then you see:


  • 2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    Subzero sells it "panel ready" and then your carpenter applies the front of your choosing.


    I looked into true vintage old iceboxes and it is not practical for use in a primary K.

  • 2 months ago

    Lisaam, the Subzero design series and the Thermador Freedom Series don't have visible vent panels. They vent at the bottom in the toe kick area. The openings are they same they would be on a stainless front French door fridge.

    Bpath, you have to find the person who can make the panels to your specs and the fridge's. Most people have panels that match their cabinets so they cabinet maker usually makes the panels. Some would probably enjoy a diffferent project and others would give it a hard pass.

    I might consider the look if I lived in a 100 year old or older home, but I don't. As it is, I passed on the designer series altogether because the interior has less space and can't hold a half sheet baking pan or large cookie sheet. I really love that the classic does.

  • 2 months ago

    Definitely a panel ready 42" SZ french door fridge with freezer drawer.


  • 2 months ago

    Brett Waterman is into this look. I do live i an almost 100 year old home and think these are just trying too hard.

  • 2 months ago

    Built 1901 ”Thornycote a 1901 English Arts and Crafts design by Howard Van Doren Shaw”.

  • 2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    bpath is that really a shower in that bathroom. wouldn’t every thing get wet.

  • 2 months ago

    Right? Like spraying on the toilet paper that looks like it is a) on a pipe and b) inaccessible?

  • 2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    @Lyban zone 4 it is a rain shower. I have a similar set up in our full bath downstairs off our mud room entrance. The one pictured is smaller . Ours works perfectly for the grands before they set foot into the house from camp! c





    Heated towel rack and all.

  • 2 months ago

    I like the actual old smaller ice boxes, but this faux large size reminds me of morgue drawers.

    The first one I ever saw was watching reruns of The Honeymooners when I was a kid (’70s). :D



  • 2 months ago

    Jilly, laughed out loud at morgue drawers. I had a HUGE box (6-8 ft long and at least 18 inches deep),with flourescent tube lights over my island when we bought the house. It had custom trim to match the cabinets. When the workers took it down, it came in one piece and sat out on the driveway temporarily. We joked about moving it to the front lawn and putting a skeleton in it for Halloween. If they had the ones that appear to be rising up out of the ground them I think I would have done it. With a morgue drawers fridge, we could have had a theme going.

    1929Spanish, I tend to agree. I've learned not to say never, but yeah. If I wanted a statement fridge, I'd look at a True that is very modern with some old school details - and probably in blue. Your comment reminded me that my first house will be 100 years old next year. I would "never" consider that fridge treatment for that house.

  • 2 months ago

    @Still trailing I think @Lyban zone 4 was asking if the shower is not in a typical shower enclosure. Not about the shower head.

    Yep, it's a wet bath. Everything gets wet. Including the toilet paper right next to it!

  • 2 months ago

    Lol Jilly re the drawers. We have a vintage ice box - in our great room. I store books in it!!

  • 2 months ago

    @jsk ours has no enclosure. It’s a wet room shower very tiny. Nothing else gets wet though because we tilt the rain shower head.


    @Lyban zone 4 ours is a wet room also. see my note above.


    We had 2 wet room very large bathrooms in our 1890 home in AL. They each had huge skylights above and were wonderful! c

  • 2 months ago

    In the photo I posted, granted it is hard to tell dimensions, but I am cringing at the thought of water from the sink sizzling on the hot radiator, or shower splash, or or, worse, someone’s delicate tushie skin!

  • PRO
    2 months ago

    OMG, Jilly! The Honeymooners!!! You could bust a gut laughing!

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