Reader Suggestions – Four Pantry Ideas

First, let me present you precise photos to remind you of how these areas stream collectively in actual life. I’ll begin with the music room. Clearly, this isn’t a latest 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 photos. However for now, this should 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 middle of the picture result in the sunroom. That’s the room that will likely 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 suitable results in the kitchen.

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

Simply past the peninsula is the eating space. In that picture above, that space was getting used as a sitting room (lengthy story). However for now, it’s getting used as our short-term 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 suitable just a bit bit, you may see the cased opening between the kitchen and the entrance lounge.

If I stand on the finish of the kitchen peninsula trying in the direction of the door to my studio, you may 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 may see that cased opening between the kitchen and the music room.

Hopefully that helps you get your bearings slightly 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 depart the pantry as is and never hassle with including a doorway between it and the household room. Clearly, I like that concept loads as a result of it suits with my purpose of getting the home accomplished as quickly as potential and permits me to maintain all of that storage in there. The draw back is that the one option to get to the eating space is thru the kitchen. That will not really be an enormous deal. It’s not like we reside in a sprawling mansion, so the gap from that doorway within the household room to the eating space is de facto 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 potential 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 alternative wall, which might enable 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, you must 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 choice is to remove that wall altogether and go away the again wall of cupboards from the pantry. The upside to that’s that the eating space would really feel rather 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 might put the freezer.

And the ultimate choice can be to shrink the pantry to about 2/3 its present measurement, holding the two/3 of the pantry on the suitable facet of its present footprint, add a wall on the left, and making a type of alcove with a doorway between the 2 areas. I really actually like this concept. The draw back is dropping cupboard space, however I additionally love that I might put an even bigger window in that little alcove for a greater view to the again yard. I can simply think about it with some lovely curtains, perhaps slightly bookcase below the window, a desk lamp for a comfortable glow of sunshine at evening, and so forth.

So these are the choices that y’all have given me. I like testing out totally 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 suppose exterior of the field.

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