American fridge freezer in lounge?

[mamaandthegirls]

We are moving into a council property this weekend and there is a cupboard for an integrated fridge-freezer but we have our own American fridge freezer which as you can imagine is huge and expensive!
We are having carpet being put down in the lounge and will have to put the fridge in the corner of the room near where our sofa will be (lounge isn’t that big and it’s open plan) anyone else done this?? I’m so paranoid it won’t look right and look stupid or out of place!

Can’t it go in front of the staircase in the kitchen?

Your new place is lovely by the way!

I vote for sell it and get a smaller one. Your kitchen looks lovely -what would you do with the gap if you don't put a fridge in. That would look strange too!

It will look really strange, and will be a nightmare with carpet. Think milk splashes, ketchup blobs, yoghurt disasters... Sorry OP.
I would either

• put it on the wall by the stairs if there is enough space there and pay for a proper plug socket to be put in there rather than an extension lead. It will be money well-spent to keep it in the kitchen, away from the radiator and off the carpet.
• sell it and get an integrated
• run the same flooring ( not carpet!) through both rooms if you really don't want to part with it and it has to go in that spot, so it is less 'fridge in the sitting room' and more ' open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room'.

My friend had hers in the living because the kitchen was tiny. She got used to it & didn't notice it after a while. She did eventually sell it when her new house didn't have a big enough kitchen either but it about 12 years old by that point & was making funny noises.

@Montalbanosono

I vote for sell it and get a smaller one. Your kitchen looks lovely -what would you do with the gap if you don't put a fridge in. That would look strange too!

The gap is for the cooker I think. You can see the connections.

Posted too soon. If the fridge is integrated there should be a cupboard door there already so no gap?

No sell it, it wld look ridiculous. I had one in my old house and I loved it. We cldnt take it with us new house had no where to put it. We've also redone the kitchen but again it just wouldn't look right with all the other stuff we wanted to fit in and there's massive window on one wall, patio doors too. Other wall had to have the cooker there and I wanted oven/microwave integrated unit so there just want any room without it looking silly. I do still miss it but not that much that I'd want it in my lounge!

The gap is for a cooker, as a pp said. Couldn't the fridge stand where the stairs are on the left of the pic?

I don’t think the cooker gap is the gap OP was talking about as the space for the integrated fridge/freezer. Could be wrong.

Fridges are noisy, I wouldn’t want one in the lounge.

[quote mamaandthegirls]@magicstar1 that’s definitely something I’ve considered , but with it being needed to be plugged in I’m not sure I could do that in a shed - or am I being dumb?🤣[/quote]
You need to make sure the appliance can be stored in an outbuilding or garage as not all fridge freezers can
Can’t you put it on the stair / bannister wall or have you already considered that
I coldly stand it in my lounge though

Good luck in your new home

Is the kitchen / lounge one room OP? I can see in the kitchen photo a similar line on the floor in the photo of the lounge to separate the kitchen area from the lounge area? If that is the case it won’t look as daft as you think as it’s a continuation of one room.

@Bluesheep8

The gap is for a cooker, as a pp said. Couldn't the fridge stand where the stairs are on the left of the pic?

I was thinking this too

I think the fridge/freezer cupboard door is partially visible on the very right hand side of the kitchen photo.

@UpTheJunktion

Fridges are noisy, I wouldn’t want one in the lounge.

It’s all one room so it will be noisy regardless.

Could you board off the banister a bit to make more of a wall space where the stairs are and put it against that?

I would remove the cupboards to the left of the gap in the kitchen and put it there.

@VioletCharlotte

I would remove the cupboards to the left of the gap in the kitchen and put it there.

The cupboard to the left of the gap, which is where OPs cooker will go, aren’t even wide enough for a standard fridge freezer let alone an American fridge freezer.

Ah I see, sorry. I didn't realise that was where the cooker has to go.

I'm pretty certain she won't be able to remove kitchen cupboards in a council property.

Well she could but she shouldn’t. It’d be a crying shame to damage all that brand new work. Just sell the American fridge and buy one that fits in the integrated space.

Op, I had a similar situation. My living room is 8mx4 m and my house has 5 big bedrooms. But the kitchen is 2m x3m!! It's TINY. We had the American fridge freezer in our living room for 3 years before we could afford to get a spare kitchen door way blocked up for it to do in there after the refit. Not a single person commented on it.

If you wanted to help it to blend in then why not look at getting it covered in some sort of complimentary fablon? You can even buy mirrored stuff so that it just reflects the room. Ignore what everybody on here says, often when you have a council house there is a certain amount of compromise and if this is the worst of it you are doing well.

I'd sell your American fridge freezer and put a full size integrated fridge in plus a small freezer in the shed. Alternatively if it fits, your American fridge freezer in the shed and an integrated fridge freezer in your kitchen.
I assume the bit by the stairs is where a table should go, don't spoil your lovely new home with a Fridge freezer in the living room or where a table should go.

It looks like a small house. A massive fridge freezer anywhere might not really work tbh. I'd sell it and go for the integrated one.