This is a pic (the only one I've found thus far) of a refrigerator raised up on a drawer base. The brand is Suntouch, made for the off-grid market.

I'm not interested in the brand but I am interested in how they raise it up on drawers... why isn't this a great idea? Esp. for those 67" tall fridges with a top freezer?

I would think if you had a model with sealed coils on the back, pulling it out to clean would cease to be an issue.

I like this idea and am wondering what you all think about its feasibility?

Palimpsest: I don't know why either and I like the idea of drawers underneath. Obviously they'd need to be sturdy enough to hold the weight of the fridge but gosh, if they put a man on the moon can't we have drawers under our refrigerators?
Screw that over the fridge cabinet with it's blasted inaccessibility!

Not saying it can't be done, but it involves a lot of design parameters that you perhaps aren't considering. I think that unless you yourself can pick up the unit, such as a small dorm type fridge, then this isn't as user friendly a design as you imagine.

Consider a French door fridge instead. It puts all of the refrigerator contents at the easiest height to get to, and then the drawer pulls out to bring all of the frozen stuff to you without you having to crouch down and hunt.

Also, I'm not certain how much reinforcement would need to be there for the raised box, but I'm thinking that the reinforcement would take up a significant portion of any storage space you might hope to use.

Lastly, if you do pull your fridge out from time to time to clean underneath it, I think it would be almost impossible to do do so with this idea.

If you're going for a smaller fridge, these concerns may not be as much of an issue, but if you're looking at a standard sized one, it might be a bit more challenging.

Alright, well I asked you all to tell me why it wouldn't work so at least now I have some idea of the probable issues.

I guess I was thinking about a 68" tall fridge on a 8" or so drawer base... so 76" tall overall to the top.

Okay. yeah. I'll think about it some more.

Dang. I liked those drawers under there....

I've been looking at some of these fridges.. they're 84" tall! DH is 6'5" and I'm 5'8" so maybe a smaller fridge raised up would work? Just trying to find any possible area for storage. Plus, we have an old top freezer in the kitchen that will be remodeled and I "HATE" bending down digging for stuff in the fridge. I kinda like having the freezer at eye level, though and not having to pull open a big heavy drawer like in my 36" french door model. That's why I thought a top freezer lifted up might be the best of both worlds.

Before I bought my new fridge I raised by old clunker fridge onto a platform (made out of a Metro wire shelving unit). This was fun to do and was easy as pie. It was fun to open the door on a raised fridge too.

When I began my renovations I had the best answer all figured out.

In the end I got the kind of fridge freezer that they call "bottom freezer". This was the answer to the question. It also costed less than any other alternative. I would never go back to a top freezer model unless it were raised.

Hth