I like discovering good ways to upload garage across the house, particularly within the
kitchen! I in reality revel in working out ways to make higher use of an
underutilized spot.  

One of the crucial first DIY tasks I labored on in our outdated kitchen was once including a
DIY enclosure across the refrigerator. This makeover will pass a lengthy means to
making a kitchen really feel extra customized and up to date. 

PLUS, there are such a large amount of ways to upload garage while you “construct in” a refrigerator!
I am sharing the ways I have finished simply that. 

1. Add or prolong the cupboard above a fridge. 

In case your refrigerator does not have any cabinetry, including a cupboard on the most sensible with facet panels will give it a customized contact. 

In our closing kitchen, we already had a cupboard above but it surely was once the similar
intensity as the remainder of the cupboards: 

Now not tremendous helpful if you have to climb on most sensible of the refrigerator to get to it!
Ha!

I used to be ready to transfer the unique cupboard doorways to the only I
constructed. 

In case you bought your cupboards from a large field retailer, you will be ready to to find
matching facet panels to fit. 

If no longer, use a 4×8 foot wooden panel lower in part to create your individual! (This may increasingly
at all times be less expensive than purchasing the “matching” panels.)

2. What to do with the gap above the refrigerator?

In case you upload a cupboard above, congrats — you may have some new space for storing! 🙂

The ones organizers are expandable, so you’ll be able to stretch them for larger pans, or shut it up for thin forums. You’ll be able to nonetheless to find them at IKEA, however this expandable choice is the same. 

In our present kitchenette, we used a sheet of plywood for the facet panels:

I stored greater than $100 through the usage of this as an alternative of the completed panels
that fit the cabinetry. 

We bought a facet through facet refrigerator for this spot (they’re SO a lot
less expensive than the French door choices!) and after it was once put in, we
had a just right ten inches of open house between the highest and the cupboard
above.

I knew I may just make that house helpful, so I began through nailing some
scrap wooden into the perimeters as enhance strips: 

After which I lower down some wooden that are compatible beneath the ones helps to shut it
off and create a shelf. 

My authentic plan was once to upload a piece of wooden at the entrance that lets
turn up and get entry to the interior of our new shelf. However I could not determine
out the proper hinges to make it paintings. 

So I went again to my scrap pile and made up our minds to end if off through making a
field I may just slide in to quilt the entire unsightly portions (it is advisable to see the
{hardware} beneath the cupboard and the helps I had simply put in). 

I nailed in a couple extra scrap portions to alongside the again and aspects to
connect my new insert to: 

I painted the field ahead of sliding it in and nailing, after which trimmed out
the entrance to quilt the tough edges. 

Now that awkward house no longer handiest seems higher, however is a helpful spot!:

I nonetheless want to fill in some gaps across the trim, however this little
element is nearly finished!

3. Add lovely garage to the facet of the fridge. 

That is considered one of my all time favourite kitchen DIY tasks!

Enclosing the fridge creates a wall if it is open on one facet…and
after living with ours for a couple years, I sought after to make the most of that vacant
vertical house. 

I LOVE this wall now! It is such a candy little element in our kitchen, and
it is USEFUL. I like when shape and serve as join up so fantastically!

I created little cabinets with leather-based strips to stay the slicing forums from
falling. For a little ornamental element, I hung scrap wooden at the again for a
shiplap glance, however you’ll be able to additionally use beadboard, wallpaper, an accessory
colour…no matter! 

At the basement enclosure, I had that very same empty wall that was once calling out
for one thing. I grabbed a pile of lovely slicing forums I have had in
our garage room and made up our minds on a means to show them. 

Through the way in which…sure I’ve too many slicing forums. I KNOW. ? However we at all times
clutch one for entertaining or once we’re having snacks and observing
TV. 

I drilled pilot holes into the wooden panel, then screwed the knobs in. 

They’re tremendous safe and hang all of our slicing forums: 

I like the brass element! 

The wooden tone seems nice in opposition to that grey, and it ties in properly with the
new flooring (that I nonetheless want to display you!) and the wooden accents on our
leisure middle: