any ideas on turning a keezer into usable furniture?

[bobeer]

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!

 

[MannyEdwards]

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.

 

[Rhumbline]

Get a hutch off craigslist and modify it as necessary to hide the thing?

 

[texwake]

Are you going to provide pictures of your progress? Just wondering if I should subscribe haha. Sounds like a cool idea.

 

[timdillon36]

Or this.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=537259

 

[flars]

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.

 

[texwake]

Or this.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=537259

Yeah, buy that. Looks pretty sweet.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Or this.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=537259

That's a good start.

Even better: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=256871

 

[beergolf]

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.

 

[bobeer]

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.

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!

 

[bobeer]

That's a good start.

Even better: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=256871

Thanks for the links guys! Lots of good stuff to take from there.

 

[PlexVector]

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!

the keezer is the new 50" TV stand...

 

[bobeer]

the keezer is the new 50" TV stand...

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!

 

[Venari]

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!

I'm sure you could make this work if you found a front opening freezer. Do they make them that big?

 

[Gman1954]

See this Classic / Beautiful KEEZER Post from HBT 2010
"A Frigidaire 7.2 cu ft Chest Freezer - by Quaffer" / BrewGeeks
https://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