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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Counter depth is an issue if you regularly need something that's full-depth -- do you bring home large pizza boxes, or need to keep multiple trays of cookie dough chilled before baking? If you don't have a specific reason to avoid counter depth, it's probably fine.

We made a list of everything that lives in the refrigerator normally (milk, juice, condiments, cheese, eggs, meats, etc) and actually mapped out where everything would live. It helped us get comfortable with a counter depth fridge.[b] We do have a second fridge in the basement [/b]for things like extra eggs and milk. [/quote]

This.  We probably use the basement fridge more for the freezer and extra beverage space and having it made us more comfortable with moving to a counter depth refrigerator.

As for built-in, I had to look up the definition https://www.athertonappliance.com/blog/freestanding-vs-builtin-refrigerators to make sure I was describing the correct thing.  We have a free standing counter depth French door fridge with cabinetry around it (cabinets over the fridge, something so you don’t see the side of the fridge) but the fridge isn’t considered a built in refrigerator (which would typically be taller with compressor on top and way more expensive) and we don’t have our refrigerator paneled.  Quite honestly I only had 4 concerns- could we live with less space in the counter depth fridge, what happens when we replace the fridge - is the cabinetry so specific that we would be locked into always replacing with the same fridge, could we hide  the side of fridge while seeing the stainless front and did the price work with what we wanted to spend on appliances.  It’s been many years later and we are on our second fridge  since the renovation- no regrets but the basement fridge was key and a good backup when the fridge from the renovation was done after 7-8 years and we were trying to get a replacement.[/quote]

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