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any ideas on turning a keezer into usable furniture?

Discussion in 'General Homebrew Discussion' started by bobeer, Sep 18, 2015.

 

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    bobeer

    Fermentation Specalist

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    OK here's the deal... We're moving into a townhouse and I need to sell my full size fridge because there's no where to put it...

    However, the wife agreed I should get 2 chest freezers and make a fermentation chamber and a keezer. They're shorter and one will fit in the storage closets we have in the basement. The other I can out in plain site.
    But, of course, there's a catch. The one in plain site cannot look like a freezer in the room.

    Has anyone see a chest freezer made into a table or some sort of working piece of furniture? I'm not sure whether to use the keezer or the fermentation chamber for this. Any ideas are welcome! The room will have a pool table, TV, and we want to get some sort of high-top table in there too. It's not a huge room but it'll fit these items. It's 13x20.5" I believe.

    Thanks!
     
  2. #2
    MannyEdwards

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    I'd put the keezer in there. A friend of mine bought a used freezer and painted gloss black, and stained the wood trim black walnut to match his homemade tap handles. He also put it on casters. It looks great.
     
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    Rhumbline

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    Get a hutch off craigslist and modify it as necessary to hide the thing?
     
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    texwake

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    Are you going to provide pictures of your progress? Just wondering if I should subscribe haha. Sounds like a cool idea.
     
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    timdillon36

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
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    flars

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    Mini refrigerators would be easier to conceal as a table. They can be opened without clearing the table top.

    edit: Second look. No this would not work to have the fermentation chambers in the living room, and the keezer in the basement.
     
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    texwake

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
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    bwarbiany

    Supporting Member  

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
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    beergolf

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 18, 2015
    Do one like a hutch. The upper section can hide glasses and the taps. When the doors are closed it will just look like a piece of furniture.
     
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    bobeer

    Fermentation Specalist

    Posted Sep 19, 2015
    A classy keezer build is in the cards but I'm just not sure about the spacing... I saw a couple smaller builds on the 2nd link posted in this thread that look pretty sweet. I only have 2 kegs at the moment so a smaller keezer would be better for sure. Thanks!
     
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    bobeer

    Fermentation Specalist

    Posted Sep 19, 2015
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    PlexVector

    Mellow Goose Brewing  

    Posted Sep 19, 2015
    the keezer is the new 50" TV stand...
     
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    bobeer

    Fermentation Specalist

    Posted Sep 21, 2015
    Ha! That would work but I wouldn't want to move the TV every time I had to switch a keg out... Esp after drinking a few! :drunk:
     
  14. #14
    Venari

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Sep 21, 2015
    I'm sure you could make this work if you found a front opening freezer. Do they make them that big?
     
  15. #15
    Gman1954

    Member

    Posted Sep 21, 2015
    See this Classic / Beautiful KEEZER Post from HBT 2010
    "A Frigidaire 7.2 cu ft Chest Freezer - by Quaffer" / BrewGeeks
    http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=162225

    This is what I am building and trying to talk the wife into letting it into the house.
    I ordered the Keezer from Walmart in Black, online & shipped it to the house. (Hard to find local, all of them are white!) Working on the collar while I ferment an IPA, now.

    regards from,
    Gman1954
    :mug:
     
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