Enclosing refrigerator in wood panels

Can someone point me to online resource how to build and enclose refrigerator into wood raised panels. The refrigerator is Kenmore top freezer (no French doors) and there is no enclosing kit already available for it.

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Sasha
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"Sasha" wrote in news:1134831743.694404.57670 @g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Just remember that a fridge works by taking heat out of the insides and dumping it outside. You enclose the thing too tightly, and you just lost

*ALL* efficiency. It needs plenty of ventilation around it, plus a wau toclean the dustbunnies away from the outside coils.
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Han

Can someone point me to online resource how to build and enclose refrigerator into wood raised panels. The refrigerator is Kenmore top freezer (no French doors) and there is no enclosing kit already available for it.

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rich

You may want to look at some European design centers - sorry, don't have an address handy. There is specialized, though inexpensive, hardware to attache a cabinet door to a refrigerator. Basically, you build a carcass/faceframe, or whatever type of cabinet you are making, big enough for the fridge. Build a door to match the rest of the cabinets, and use this sliding thing - sorry can't think of a better description - to attach the back of the cabinet door to the front of the fridge door, so when you open the cabinet door, you open the fridge, too.

Of course, European fridges tend to be smaller, but it sure seemed to me that this could work with US fridges, too. Anybody have any more info on these brackets?

Harvey

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Harvey

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