I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say perhaps it’s a deep freezer that is only opened occasionally, and I guess is pretty well sealed as long as it’s closed.
The kitchen appears to have one of those built-in fridges that matches the cabinets:

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    44·
    10 months ago

    Sure storing food there would be…problematic.

    But you don’t find the prospect of a cold beer within reach while having a shower or taking a shit appealing?

    • just_chill@jlai.luEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I like the way you think, also, that thing is enough for the whole family to have showerbeers, or they live really remote and need 3 months supplies.

  • katzschen
    20·
    10 months ago

    I think that might be one of those fancy steam appliances to steam/press clothes, especially with it being next to the washing machine. I’ve seen them around Costco.

  • ValiantDust@feddit.de
    12·
    10 months ago

    Probably a skincare addict storing their simple 500-step routine at exactly the right temperature

  • CoupleOfConcerns@lemmy.nz
    165·
    10 months ago

    Is this that much weirder than the widespread British practice of putting washing machines in kitchens?

    • Moegle@feddit.uk
      20·
      10 months ago

      Yes, putting an electrical appliance in the bathroom is weirder than putting an appliance that requires both power and plumbing in the room that always has both power and plumbing.

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      151·
      10 months ago

      Where else would you put it? Might as well just place it next to all the other appliances. We do it in Germany too, pretty sure it’s just a European thing.

      • wandermind@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        10 months ago

        At least in Finland the washing machine (for washing clothes) is usually in the bathroom/shower room, like in the photo in this post.

        • just_chill@jlai.luEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Finns also have saunas in their home, which is awesome but not really standard anywhere else.

          • Kronlid@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Never seen a wasing machine outside a bathroom or a washing room if your house is big enough here in sweden

            • just_chill@jlai.luEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              “Big enough house” doing a lot of work here :)
              Not that it’s a bad thing, I think anyone would like having a wash room if given the space. Still better having a washing machine in the kitchen than going to the landromat down the street.

      • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I think in the US we typically prefer for them to be out of sight. Houses here often have a small laundry room specifically for the washer and dryer. Barring that, they are usually tucked away in a closet (apartments or smaller houses) or in the garage or basement.

        • poppy@lemm.ee
          5·
          10 months ago

          I wonder if this is one of those things the US benefits from having most of our homes built after indoor plumbing. A not insignificant portion of European homes were built before prolific indoor plumbing, no? So when homes were retrofitted for plumbing, it made sense it keep it all located in one place and then it became the style for all homes.

      • Madlaine@feddit.de
        5·
        10 months ago

        My family/me (in and around berlin):

        Me: WM in the kitchen

        Parents: WM in the bathroom

        Brother: WM in a little nook on the corridor(? Flurnische)

        Another Brother: WM in the basement (benefits of a house)

    • just_chill@jlai.luEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Kinda have to, if the building is older than widespread home washing machines.

      • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        The houses I grew up in were both Victorian so bathrooms were built in only the 80’s or sometime like that, so they were on the ground floor and quite large. Both had the washing machines in the bathroom and not the kitchen due to this. The bathroom acts as part utility room.

        More modern places I’ve lived lack any form of utility rooms. In my current flat the washing machine is in the kitchen, there isn’t plumbing and space anywhere else for it.

    • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      10 months ago

      I’m in the USA in a house built pre-1900s. Our washing machine is in a nook off the kitchen (as in the same room, but in the corner). Growing up our washing machine was in the bathroom. From a plumbing standpoint it makes a lot of sense to have the washing machine in the same area as other plumbing.

  • Treczoks@kbin.social
    9·
    10 months ago

    If there is not enough space in the rest of the house and this is the only place where it fits, well, that’s it then.

    I would do about everything to avoid that, primarily because of the hygienic aspects but also because of the above average air humidity in a bathroom.

  • stravanasu@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Sorry everyone but you’re all missing the obvious. You see that APPARENTLY there’s no WC in the bathroom? Well there you go. When you’re done, close the door, and it’s nicely mimetized as a drying cabinet 😎