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We had almost the exact same situation, though our freezer is upright. When moving to a smaller place, we made the tough decision between living with the freezer in our bedroom, or doing without the kitchen table.

In the end, we actually decided to do without the desk in the living room and slide the table there... because who can live without their kitchen table once they've had one for so long?

Liana - We had a similar thought, for a brief fleeting moment we were going to make a table that slid over the freezer and could be moved in and out of place to get what you needed. We quickly decided it would just be easier to donate some clothes and put it here instead!

One roommate in my first apartment kept his in the living room. It served as an oversized sideboard/landing strip. It was covered with a tablecloth and each roommate had a basket on it for our stuff.

I love it! I'm a huge believer in chest freezers (dare I admit we have five here on the farm - and yet I still need to make more space for the homegrown grass-fed steer and three lambs I'm picking up from the butcher tomorrow).

I'm always trying to convince people that they can't afford not to find the money and space for a chest freezer (which literally only costs a few dollars a month to run) - no matter where they end up having to put it! :)

If there was room in my closet (or any other space...) I would definitely do this. I'm thinking about putting another fridge or possibly a freezer out on my patio. There's never enough space!

Ours is in our sunroom / laundry room / cat's room. We have to multi-purpose all the rooms in our house!

We just moved from a house with a utility room (where our freezer was located) to a townhouse with much less space. I was not willing to give up the freezer, so now it lives in our bedroom closet. We loved seeing someone else do this too!

The story about almost losing the cake when slipping made me laugh. This reminds me of an ongoing debate my husband and I have regarding our wine refrigerator. Whenever we are moving the furniture around in our home, the question of where to place the wine fridge always comes up. My husband would rather place it in the office and out of site from the rest of the household. I, on the other hand, think its too nice of a fridge to banish it to some back room.

I've been trying to talk my husband into this! I have my eye on a black one for the living room, hopefully it wouldn't look quite so appliance-y.

Aren't you bothered by the buzzing noises?

I used to have one in the living room. I always hated the buzzing noise.

adorita- The buzzing doesn't bother us in the slightest, the clothes make a pretty decent sound barrier. In our old open floor plan loft, they actually bugged us more! In combination with light traffic outside, it's 100% non-existent!

Ours is in the garage. And it's upright, which adds the option of putting stuff on top of it. Otherwise a chest freezer would wind up taking up so much space.

I wouldn't mind having one, it would be a lifesaver when I'm entertaining, but with a grand total of eleven sockets in my entire apartment it's a no-go (This includes the two that the fridge and stove are plugged into).

Extra ice, lots of meat from costco, ice cream, the possibility of being able to see what's in the regular freezer...

If I did get one, it would have to be in the bedroom, and would probalby get used as a nightstand. My folks have the luxury of having theirs in the garage.

haha. I would get so much teasing if I kept a freezer in my closet. Not that one would fit, but the idea of only having to walk a metre out of bed to retrieve ice cream would be part of it.

my parents have theirs outside. yes! outside.

they have a semi-roofed patio and keep it out there. i was skeptical as gets the sun most of the day and during wild storms (tropical australian daily summer storms) it gets a little wet. its been out there for years now though without issue.

well... i take that back, there was one issue...
we went overseas as a family for 4 weeks and didn't leave anyone in mind the house. at some point (presumably early in the trip) a fuse blew and there was no power to the freezer. you can imagine coming home after 3-4 weeks what a chest of meat that gets the sun 70% of the day would be like. i could smell it from the street and am truly amazed that no one called the police suspecting a dead body.

besides that its a great way to save money.

It's great that the freezer in the closet works for you, but putting freezers in other rooms is an old idea.

I'm reading Laura Shapiro's "Something from the Oven" about food and cooking in the fifties and she talks about how frozen food manufacturers were frustrated because sales were low among city dwellers whose refrigerators only had very tiny freezers and they had no room in their kitchens for a separate freezer. For a while some freezers were designed to look like furniture and covered in wood veneer so they could be put in other rooms. That idea didn't really catch on as people migrated to the burbs with large kitchens and basements.

When I was small, my parents put our freezer to my room. Huge brown thing, though it never bothered me. When I told about this to my colleague, she was horrified, wasn't I traumatized? No I wasn't.

Today I have my small chest freezer in hallway. No room elsewhere.

I'd like to get a really small chest freezer. It would probably end up in my bedroom. It would be another place for the cats to sleep.

@miabica - Our chest freezer totally has wood-veneer plastic on it. It was free. It lives in the back of the garage & we love it!

I used to have one, but I don't miss it now. The thing was hard to move easily and always difficult to place. Now I pack my fridge-top freezer completely full, and after that point, I find something else to do with abundant produce.

I think the relationship soured when I was carrying an armload of food down to our freezer (in the basement at that time) and slipped and broke a rib. After that kind of pain I began to question whether I wasn't just a food hoarder!

I don't suppose it's odd, but we've put ours out on the back porch. It could go downstairs, but it's old and loud (and we really want a new one), so outside it went. It's closer to the kitchen that way, anyhow.

Phew! I thought you were going to say the spare bathroom. Ours is kept just off the kitchen.