In my ever ongoing quest to find a better fridge than our current behemoth, I’ve been scouring the internet for slim fridges. Somewhere in that search I started getting silly curious and ended up on the far side of the interwebs looking into how an antique ice box works…in the off-chance that we could just “upgrade” to using an antique ice box instead and skip all the UGLY that are American fridges.
Then after learning and deciding that I did NOT want to have to locate a dealer who still sells ice blocks and lug them into the car and house on a weekly basis…
…I stumbled across this amazing place that CONVERTS OLD ICE BOXES INTO FRIDGES.
What the WHAT?!
I can have my cake and eat it too?!
I never even considered that this could be done.
…and now I can think of little else for our kitchen.
This is the 20-second planning that ensued in my mind when I saw what the possibilities were:
We find an ice box.
Restore it if necessary.
Find and hire an awesome fridge mechanic. Use the motor from our current fridge or one from Craigslist or something…
Make our own ice box fridge!
SIMPLE! RIGHT?
It sounds relatively simple. They lay the whole process out on that site. But somehow I know it’d probably be anything but. Especially as I know I’ll only get a shake of the head and a sigh from Karl when I try to convince him of the brilliance of this plan.
However…if he can give no hardcore reason why NOT to go for the crazy…perhaps even be fully on-board to look into some more (it’s been known to happen, being the wonderful hubby he is)…
…we might try it.
Oh. And did I mention they also convert antique stoves to modern day standards?
No?
Well they do!
This is where we all shout “take my money!”.
If they were located closer, I’d be their numero uno customer. If I could afford them. Which I’m not sure of as I can’t find any prices on their site.
Ignorance is bliss?
Stay tuned!
Any of you have suggestions for ways of converting an ice box? Any of you attempt the crazy? ;)
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YOU are a genius! Who knew this could be done?. I cannot imagine anything better than having that beautiful oak icebox in my kitchen! (Of course, there is the small matter of acquiring an antique commercial icebox and somehow getting it insulated and converted to electricity; there’s also the second mortgage I’d need to pay for all this). It might just be worth it, though.
The jury is still out whether this is a genius idea or we’ll end up in the pits of despair (and fridgeless), but thanks! ;)
Yeah, I am just looking at this thinking, that is so cool, so genius and then the practical side of me thinks, are those glass panels really insulated and what would it cost to run it full time….hm-m-m
I’m in the same boat as you. After the holidays I’ll get into research mode ;)
Now I read the fine print, refrigerators from $2000 – $60,000, oh yeah I know where this would be headed, the only one I would absolutely HAVE to have is the $60,000 one…sell the house honey!! but the good news is that they ship world wide.
Good to know they’ll ship worldwide after giving them all our other possessions in cash form. Always a mark of a good business. ;)
There prices are insane, we are in the process of doing this now… I found an old 8 door McCray ice box on Craigslist, we have pulled everything off,I am currently trying to find copper to line the inside with… on another note, instead of ice blocks, I found a few sites that suggested frozen 2 liters bottles. We are buying new fan, compressed from a local restaurant supply new.
Wow that’s so cool that you’re already doing this! That’s a really interesting idea with the frozen bottles too…hmm. Would love to learn more from you about what parts to look for and what one can expect to spend for each part! :)