Reader Suggestions – Four Pantry Ideas

First, let me present you precise footage to remind you of how these areas stream collectively in actual life. I’ll begin with the music room. Clearly, this isn’t a current image. As soon as I get the bed room suite to the purpose the place I’m able to load in furnishings and decor, I’ll get the instruments, bins, and paint cans out of the music room and get up to date footage. However for now, this must do.

So within the image above, the cased opening on the far left is now the doorway to our bed room suite. That’s the place I put in the French doorways as our bed room doorways. The doorways within the heart of the photograph result in the sunroom. That’s the room that will probably be torn down, and as soon as we construct our addition, the room simply past these doorways would be the household room. After which the cased opening on the best results in the kitchen.

The view from that cased opening between the music room and the kitchen seems like this…

Simply past the peninsula is the eating space. In that photograph above, that space was getting used as a sitting room (lengthy story). However for now, it’s getting used as our non permanent bed room whereas I’m engaged on our bed room suite. That 15-lite pocket door to the left of the cabinets results in my studio.

After which if I flip to the best just a bit bit, you possibly can see the cased opening between the kitchen and the entrance lounge.

If I stand on the finish of the kitchen peninsula wanting in the direction of the door to my studio, you possibly can see the pantry there on the left.

So right here’s a greater look from the eating space (I’m standing by the home windows on the entrance of the home) in the direction of the pantry, the again wall of the kitchen, after which on the far left of the image, you possibly can see that cased opening between the kitchen and the music room.

Hopefully that helps you get your bearings a bit of higher. So as soon as we construct the addition, then new household room will sit behind the music room and the kitchen and share a wall with the present pantry. So the primary thought, which is clearly the best, is to go away the pantry as is and never trouble with including a doorway between it and the household room. Clearly, I like that concept loads as a result of it matches with my objective of getting the home executed as quickly as doable and permits me to maintain all of that storage in there. The draw back is that the one strategy to get to the eating space is thru the kitchen. That won’t truly be a giant deal. It’s not like we dwell in a sprawling mansion, so the space from that doorway within the household room to the eating space is actually not that far.

The second thought, which was the concept that I had in thoughts, was to widen the opening between the eating space and the pantry as a lot as doable whereas nonetheless permitting sufficient wall house between the eating space and pantry to cover the upright freezer. After which I’d transfer the freezer to the other wall, which might permit room for a gap between the household room and pantry. The upside to that’s that it might be a extra handy route from the household room to the eating space that eliminates site visitors by the kitchen. The plain downsides are (1) I’d lose storage within the pantry, and (2) the site visitors can be by the pantry, which could appear awkward. Additionally, any time you add one other doorway, it’s a must to take into consideration site visitors patterns by rooms with furnishings. So having a doorway there would restrict furnishings placement choices within the household room.

The third possibility is to eradicate that wall altogether and depart the again wall of cupboards from the pantry. The upside to that’s that the eating space would really feel way more open. The draw back is that there can be no place for my upright freezer, and I don’t know the place else I may put the freezer.

And the ultimate possibility can be to shrink the pantry to about 2/3 its present measurement, holding the two/3 of the pantry on the best aspect of its present footprint, add a wall on the left, and making a form of alcove with a doorway between the 2 areas. I truly actually like this concept. The draw back is shedding space for storing, however I additionally love that I may put a much bigger window in that little alcove for a greater view to the again yard. I can simply think about it with some lovely curtains, possibly a bit of bookcase underneath the window, a desk lamp for a mushy glow of sunshine at night time, and so forth.

So these are the choices that y’all have given me. I like testing out completely different concepts that readers give me and seeing how they may work for us. Y’all know that my mind will get caught in ruts and I’ve a tough time getting myself out of these ruts. So it’s at all times good to have exterior concepts that assist me assume exterior of the field.

What are your ideas on these concepts? And in the event you wrote a suggestion in a earlier submit and I missed it right here, let me know and I’ll add one other ground plan with the brand new thought.