seriph1
24th February 2008, 09:24 AM
I have a weird and wonderful project on the go ....building a repro 50's style 6 door fridge for our kitchen. I will post pics when it is done but in the meantime, here are two images that inspired me..... both VERY different, but both beautiful to me..... and why can't a fridge be a thing of beauty? Obviously I won't be replicating the fridge exactly, but ours will be "after the spirit" of the one pictured....
Started out intending to build something close to the stainless fridge pictured, which is a domestic one by the way .... made by sub-zero in America and costing around $12000 US. I was all ready to start fabrication when I received my copy of AMERICAN BUNGALOW magazine and saw the white fridge. When the wife saw it too, and though we both love the sub-zero, she thought it would work better in our kitchen. I agree. BTW the two units on either side of the white fridge, are freezers as this is only a fridge. They were built like tanks back then .... all timber construction ,with vitreous enamelled doors and either copper or stainless steel interiors. The bottom right door houses the compressor unit. I actually tracked an original down in Melbourne, but it was impractical to use as a fridge....would make a great pantry unit though :D:D:D (told you this was a weird and wonderful project)
Anyway, the white monster is generally what I will be building in our place.....and it will have a 450mm long Chrysler 'wings emblem' that goes along the 250mm high white panel atop the whole thing - each door will have a 150mm version of the same thing on it. the fridge, freezer and wine chiller doors will have 100mm round dial thermometers and polished chrome exposed hinges and handles. Our kitchen will be pretty large with dual cooking zones, double prep and cooking islands etc. so something of this scale will fit OK.
The base unit we are using is an 800 litre Jenn-Air side by side with all its workings on the top, like a commercial fridge. I never dreamt we would ever be able to afford a fridge like this as they are $18000RRP, but stumbled onto one at the back of a clearance centre.
We originally had a 760 litre SamsTung piece of crapola which broke down 7 months in and after 4 months of calls we are still waiting to see anyone from SamsTung. So much for their BS warranty! Last Monday it was finally removed by hardly's who were great BTW. We got a FULL refund, but only after going to Consumer Affairs. I will never have another SamsTung product again or recommend them. :no:
Anyway, back to my sermon - As the Jenn-Air is only a two door, we are placing beside it, a dishwasher - with a small dedicated chilled water unit above and above that, a wine fridge...all trimmed to match. The main variations to the old-style chiller will be the addition of triple glazed panel in the fridge door and wine fridge. It may be hard to visualise, but as soon as I progress the project, I will post apdates and pics etc. so you all will have plenty to giggle behind your hands about
:D:D:D
Started out intending to build something close to the stainless fridge pictured, which is a domestic one by the way .... made by sub-zero in America and costing around $12000 US. I was all ready to start fabrication when I received my copy of AMERICAN BUNGALOW magazine and saw the white fridge. When the wife saw it too, and though we both love the sub-zero, she thought it would work better in our kitchen. I agree. BTW the two units on either side of the white fridge, are freezers as this is only a fridge. They were built like tanks back then .... all timber construction ,with vitreous enamelled doors and either copper or stainless steel interiors. The bottom right door houses the compressor unit. I actually tracked an original down in Melbourne, but it was impractical to use as a fridge....would make a great pantry unit though :D:D:D (told you this was a weird and wonderful project)
Anyway, the white monster is generally what I will be building in our place.....and it will have a 450mm long Chrysler 'wings emblem' that goes along the 250mm high white panel atop the whole thing - each door will have a 150mm version of the same thing on it. the fridge, freezer and wine chiller doors will have 100mm round dial thermometers and polished chrome exposed hinges and handles. Our kitchen will be pretty large with dual cooking zones, double prep and cooking islands etc. so something of this scale will fit OK.
The base unit we are using is an 800 litre Jenn-Air side by side with all its workings on the top, like a commercial fridge. I never dreamt we would ever be able to afford a fridge like this as they are $18000RRP, but stumbled onto one at the back of a clearance centre.
We originally had a 760 litre SamsTung piece of crapola which broke down 7 months in and after 4 months of calls we are still waiting to see anyone from SamsTung. So much for their BS warranty! Last Monday it was finally removed by hardly's who were great BTW. We got a FULL refund, but only after going to Consumer Affairs. I will never have another SamsTung product again or recommend them. :no:
Anyway, back to my sermon - As the Jenn-Air is only a two door, we are placing beside it, a dishwasher - with a small dedicated chilled water unit above and above that, a wine fridge...all trimmed to match. The main variations to the old-style chiller will be the addition of triple glazed panel in the fridge door and wine fridge. It may be hard to visualise, but as soon as I progress the project, I will post apdates and pics etc. so you all will have plenty to giggle behind your hands about
:D:D:D