Someone please help me with my fridge conundrum!

[ClarawithaCocktail]

We are redoing our kitchen.. we currently have a 90cm fridge on the right hand side of a row of units and it has to stay there when we redo the plans.
The door doesn't open properly to pull out the lower veg drawers which is a nightmare!
I want to replace it with either something narrower (Fisher and paykel 80cm one looks promising) so we have room to open the doors properly, or ideally a 90cm integrated one that doesn't need the doors to open further than about 90 degrees!
We have slightly over 1m for it to fit in, but obv need to leave ventilation space...

Any clever ideas? I feel like I have searched the whole internet and come up with nothing....

you may be able to swap the fridges door to the other side.
easy to do, as soon you open the door, you will see a plastic plug covering the fitting.

Check the installation guide on line of any fridge you consider and it will tell you the clearance required. Ideally you need to move it away from the wall by moving a cupboard further down the line and putting between fridge and wall .

Thanks, unfortunately can't move it anywhere else in the kitchen because of windows / other features.. Not all of the ones I've looked at give drawers open dimensions which is a bit frustrating.. will have to make a trip and measure I think!

Mumsy the plan with the fisher and paykel one is to reverse the door, but its not ideal as it means the door is opening out into your kitchen into what is quite a busy prep area... obv though if its an American style one that isn't an option so we are very limited in choice!

Can you not just pull out the fridge a bit?
I have the f & p, but it's the 90cm.
My designer gave me the choice of having it stick out about 20mm or building this batton thing around it.

Look at Bosch, some of their fridges are designed to be tight to a wall. Ours is one, it's not obvious but the drawers and shelves are cleverly designed to tilt slightly so they can be pulled out.

Sorry, I think you get that feature in common or garden 60cm fridge freezers but probably not an American style one. Integrated likely to be even worse due to restrictions of fitting in a cupboard unit.

Would you be better with a wide 60-40 fridge freezer that has twin veg drawers. A single narrow drawer on runners will always need the door pulled right back. This sort of thing.

Pepperjack - we could do but I don't think pulling it out further would help as the wall would still be there? Its not possible to move it further to the left as there is a window there.

Not me, I was looking at that one, do you think it would be any better? I thought you may end up with the same problem with the veg drawer on the right hand side...

No ideas on layout but I adored our F&P fridge. Had to leave it behind in our move 18 months ago. Miss it every day...

Clara, I expect you take out the LH box then slide the RH one over

Or maybe not.. looks like they are humidity controlled . I think inspecting in a showroom might be the only way!

I'm a bit confused when you talk about changing the door over
I thought you meant the f & p with 2 doors and freezer underneath?
Like this?
If it sits like this, pulled out a bit, the doors open ok. Will swing back fully. But if your wall is right there, almost on a right angle, it won't. is that what you mean?

We have 2 drawers side by side in the bottom. Our door doesn't open as fully as we'd like, so the drawer on the hinge side doesn't pull straight out. However if I take out the one on the other side, I can slide the constrained one across then out. I'm assuming yours don't slide slideways though?