[after_e1even]

Was wondering if any of you are living in a Chinese style apartment where the fridge is in the livingroom instead of the kitchen?

My Chinese friends say this is quite common...but, coming from Canada...I find it quite strange.

I found this great apartment with a great Sea View...but, the fridge is in the livingroom.

[sunniefaith]

I'm a Singaporean and I live in Spore at the moment. My fridge is in the living room. My kitchen is too small to fit my huge fridge.

[phooey]

I would love that! You wouldn't have to get up for more beer when your watching TV If was a really hot day.. you could just open the fridge door

[sunniefaith]

Actually, my dog loves it when i open the fridge door....she rushes to stand in front of the fridge.

[lowlight]

My fridge is in the living room/dining room. Because we chose to have a dryer, and that takes up the space in the kitchen (no room for a stacking washer/dryer combo).

It's OK, our fridge is quiet. I should have put more thought into getting one that fits the decor in our living room though.

[nina_70]

You'll get used to it. We also live in a chinese-style apartment where the fridge is in the living room (have a washing machine in the kitchen so it can't fit). Just make sure you have a reasonably quiet fridge. You can always buy a nice chinese screen to "separate" the fridge from other parts of the living room. Basically we thought it was wierd at first, but got used to it pretty quickly.

[carang]

we have two fridges... ours and the landlords...
the land lord didn't want to remove theirs, so it's in the kitchen...we keep most things in it...
our is in the dining room, we keep it stocked with cold drinks and fruit...

it also means we have two freezers, which comes in handy!

[freeier]

slightly off synched...

having 2 fridges, or opening a fridge door on a warm day, actually makes the room warmer.

creating 'coldness' in a place is by pulling the heat out of the vicinity and making it colder (as oppose to adding heat into a room by burning/coil, etc). the heat pulled out has to be expelled into the environment. air conditioners expel the heat outside the room, but fridge has to do it within the room.

so on a warm day, if u open the fridge to cool the room, the mechanics behind will only make the room warmer based on thermodynamics principle (heat extracted to cool room + work done loss due to inefficiency = heat created in the room elsewhere [i.e. fridge cooling coil]).

so the recommendation is, don't have too many fridges, and don't open the fridge door if you want to keep the room cool. i used to switch off my fridge in summer when it was too warm in the room (back in the days when i did not have enough money to buy an air con).

[carang]

so if you turned off your fridge, then what did you do with all the food in it???

i would assume that running the second fridge would make it slightly warmer in the room, good thing i have a split air-con in that room!... but even so, i'd much rather have the cold fruit and drinks than not...