IKEA METOD search internal dimensions, side wall thickness?

Correct. Our freezer is also a freestanding appliance. Nevertheless, we want to make them disappear in cabinets.

Back in 2007, I got a brochure from a company at a hardware store that manufactured conversion cabinets for freestanding appliances; at that time, it was about the washing machine. However, we decided differently and I threw the brochure away. I regret it today because I can no longer find the manufacturer. So it is possible to install freestanding appliances, and even large kitchen manufacturers produce customized conversion cabinets for them (information from a kitchen consultant). But of course, at hefty prices.

Would you always like to open the cabinet door first and then the refrigerator door?

If the refrigerator fits in the cabinet in terms of depth including the wall spacers described in the instructions, I would first install a 40 cm high drawer at the bottom, with a shelf for the refrigerator above it. This way, the items in the refrigerator would be accessible without bending down much. Additionally, the shelf can be set a little lower so that the refrigerator door aligns at the bottom with the cabinet door. Since the refrigerator door alone is 137/138 cm (?), a 140 cm cabinet door would fit in front of it. Above that, there would be another 40 cm high door. The front would then be symmetrical in its layout, and if a base cabinet with a 40 cm drawer is placed next to it, that would fit well too.

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I didn’t get to reply earlier. So:

The idea with the 40-cm base cabinet isn’t bad. But even then, I’d have that tiny cabinet so high up again, which I don’t want. I’m really angry with IKEA. That they simply don’t offer a 160 cm variant, although all the other sizes come in 20 cm steps! I believe it has less to do with storage costs and more that they want to push their own refrigeration appliances. Now a bit more about our kitchen.

We live in an old building, where a large apartment (about 150 sqm) was divided into 2 smaller ones in the early 50s (housing shortage after the war) and a kitchen & bathroom were created retroactively in our apartment. The kitchen is only 1.84 x 3.98 m "large" and very poorly planned regarding the connections: water and high-voltage sockets are on the left long wall and the gas connection diagonally opposite on the right. Door and window are on the shorter walls opposite each other, under the window is the radiator (in my opinion unnecessary in a kitchen, but the landlord thinks otherwise), so we can only build a two-row kitchen with shallower cabinets on one side. Namely the right side, because left of the kitchen door (folding door, due to air-dependent boiler in rooms under 8 sqm) there is only 49.5 cm of space to the wall and on the right 43.5, with the combination boiler also hanging 22 cm away from the door. Below are two connected stainless steel garbage bins, which are to stay there.

So we don’t have many options when it comes to kitchen furnishings. That all kitchen manufacturers only offer the standard depths and charge very expensive for cabinets of smaller depth was another reason for a kitchen from IKEA. But now, after I know about the tragedy of missing 160 cm doors, that’s the only reason left.
Here is my plan, a 40-cm cabinet at the very top wouldn’t look good:

The problem with the door height exists mainly because it is not a built-in appliance. One cannot expect IKEA to coordinate the measurements for that.

The gap between the upper and lower cabinets would be too large for me.

With a 20 cm drawer under the refrigerator and the 140 cm door above, 60 cm would remain. The door would then be the same size as the upper cabinets. If you swap the drawers under the oven, the lower fronts would be at the same height, or combine the 40 cm from two 20 cm ones, although the freezer compartment's layout does not fit either.

Are the distances too large??? They are about 77 cm... we currently have a distance of 60 cm, which is too little for us. We are tall...

Regarding the freezer layout: The uploaded sketch is faulty concerning the sink cabinet and I hadn’t indicated that we want to swap the doors for the ME 718, so that the 120-cm door is at the bottom, which looks better (even graduation). But I have now corrected it and uploaded it again, and now it doesn’t look so bad anymore, I think this graduation has something:

I have now measured the fridge exactly; result: feet: 3 cm, door: 136 cm, upper edge: 5 cm. That means if we left out the bottom shelf, the door would start 3 cm above the base plate and end at 139 cm height, i.e. 1 cm below the top edge of the door... with the Billy shelves the middle shelf was always fixed, but with these cabinets here all are probably adjustable, right?

When you are this tall, of course you need the greater distance. Why not everything at 248 cm?

The carcass looks like this:


Metod carcass tall cabinet

The bottom at the very bottom cannot be removed, it holds the cabinet together and the feet are attached to it.