[dave from deland]

Originally Posted by Jimmydoodlebug

To those who haven't yet chosen a house model, here's something I just discovered about my Lantana: it will not accept a full size refrigerator. The widest replacement we could find that would fit the opening is 33" and there are just four of those on the market that have ice and water through the door. Very slim pickings.

The opening is 35" and the water line and baseboard protrude into that space by about 3/4 inch. A standard refrigerator is 36" and larger.

We'd like a normal refrigerator so we might have to hire someone to take out the baseboard and tear open the pantry wall to expose the water supply line and move it. Even then we'd be limited to a 36" refrigerator but that gives us a lot of refrigerators to choose from and that 3" makes a big difference. A second refrigerator in the garage is out of the question.

If anyone else has had this problem, how did you deal with it? Maybe there's a simpler way.

Thanks

We have a Lantana resale built in 2000. We just replaced the original refrigerator with a larger new one. I believe it has a little over 27 sq ft of space. It fit into the space fine. It is 36" wide, 33" deep and 70" high. It is about 1" away from the back wall. It extends 8" from the cabinets into the kitchen and 6" from the wall of the pantry into the kitchen. Space from the upper cabinets to the top of the refrigerator is about 3.5". It sounds like to me that your opening is not standard for the Lantana model but I am just relaying what our experience was in replacing our refrigerator.