I like the 2nd one.

I'd never iron in my laundry. I'd have a minimum 15 shirts a week...I do it in front of the TV. I'd shave that off. Switch the bathroom and laundry (better to have a window in the bathroom than laundry- then get a heat pump condenser dryer- no venting required!).

I can see how you'd get a decent walk-in pantry.

Pantry! Openable Skylight in bathroom will give fantastic natural light and ventilation so no issue there. Laundry looks like a better layout as well. We don't iron so I'd change that area to cupboard for storage.

I'm guessing the drop zone is a shelf for stuff like phones, key's, etc.?

I would choose the walk-in pantry. It is much more flexible storage space than a cabinet pantry. I store small appliances in mine (pressure cooker, waffle iron, Vitamix, etc) along with food. It's also where I store parchment paper, extra napkins, paper towels, garbage bags, etc...and I had an outlet installed on the wall down low to store my stick vac in there for quick kitchen clean up. If I had a cabinet style pantry I'd only be able to store certain things.

my pantry is a bit longer but similar width with a bench 2 rows of drawers and a shelf on top..

plenty of room for a walk in

my walk in pantry has only 75cm wide floor space and 15cm shelves down the sides for a million can, bottles and packets and 45cm deep shelves across the end for appliances...with the additional width in your pantry you could easily include a 30cm-45cm bench along one side (with or without the 15cm shelves on the other side) with appliances plugged in ready to use...and, thinking about you stuck in the laundry looking at blank walls (subject to precise measurements) i've attached another idea for a laundry at the kitchen floor level: with the door open you can wash, iron, cook, watch the kids and the tv, all at the same time! good luck with your reno

That's seriously cool oklouise. Streamlines the entire area and forms up some more normal shaped rooms. That's a great pantry too. Next time I build, I'll be speaking to you!

thanks Mel, it's easy to make suggestions on "paper" but always "subject to precise measurements"

Thanks okLouise. I think it will be a bit tight. The entire space from the far laundry wall dividing bathroom and the back of the kitchen cabinets is 3.3m and from the external wall to the stairs wall is 3.6.

I would really love to be able to iron in our laundry. Not so much for the 'big' iron, but the daily morning iron of a single shirt or whatever. I was also concerned to get enough linen storage. The little 1m unit outside the bathroom isn't enough. Our architect took all this into account when coming up with the interesting little plan with the 'pocket' in the laundry. Its just that its left the pantry a bit tiny at 1.5 x 1.2

another version for you

Just wondering if the bathroom is the only bathroom for the kids to use? Do you need the shower in there or could this just be a powder room? If you can ditch the shower, you could extend the pantry into the shower space, and create more linen space for the laundry side. This would give a narrow space to walk in but I think wide enough unless you are very overweight. A pantry is best with narrow shelves anyway, about the depth of a dinner plate. Much deeper and you tend to loose things. This is why the cupboard pantry option is not as good. If you do need the shower, I would go with the walk in pantry. I would also use a Robinhood ironing cupboard centred in that niche and have the cabinet maker make shelves either side of the ironing board so that you can store cleaning stuff/ vases, etc. Put doors on them and this will give a neat and useful ironing wall. Also, in the laundry, you need to get front loading washing machine and dryer, have them sit side by side and put a bench top over them to give you a good sized folding area. You could put cupboards above them, or you could have a hanging rail, or combo of both.

We had the option of a walk in wardrobe/closet For the bedroom behind the kitchen), or pantry and I chose the walk in pantry, it will be small but pinterest gave me ideas on how it can look beautiful if small (1.5m x 1.7). The pantry offers flexible storage as my pantry/butlers space will contain food and much loved pretty dishes.

What did you end up deciding to go with Amanda?

Thanks for all the replies. Nicole, we ended up with the walk in pantry (the right hand side option above). Its not built yet though - we are still waiting for our DA approval to start work. We still have time to play around with it.

So 1.2 wide by 1.6 long? (with perhaps half of the length for the doorway?) I'm in a similar stage too, tossing up between an open design with a cupboard style pantry, or a narrower kitchen but with a walk-in pantry (see my design dilemma "Which kitchen would you choose - round 2"), so was really interested to see what you decided, and what the dimensions ended up being.

HI Nicole, yes 1.2 wide x 1.6 long. It still feels too tiny but I couldn't let go of the idea of the walk-in! I'm going to have to keep thinking on it. I have a friend who has a 1.1m wide x 3m long pantry with slim open shelves and its very functional.

Mine will probably only be 1.1m wide, but it has the doorway on the long side rather than the shorter one, and won't have a door, so I'm hoping that works. It is tricky! I've got a poll going and people definitely prefer the walk-in pantry, even if it means a smaller kitchen, if that gives you any reassurance that you are in the majority!

So helpful, I've been debating the same thing! My wall pantry would be a bit wider and deeper, so have U shaped shelving, so more a "Step In Pantry" and able to have deeper shelves on the sides to store appliances (not really space to use them there though), or we do a very small walk in - 1.6m W but only 1.5m deep. My husband thinks I'm mad as I keep looking at closets trying to visualise!

Haha Sarah, I do the same thing!

The 1.6m wide by 1.5m deep would work if you just ran a straight benchtop along the one wall ie not L-shaped. Then the bench would be 500-600mm deep, and you would have 900mm standing room. That would be heaps.

see my comments 251016...my pantry has only 75cm wide floor space

Yes I was planning continuing the kitchen bench (standard depth) right through so it'd be more of a concealed extension of the kitchen, deep enough for plugged in everyday appliances, with shelves underneath and shallower shelves above, then just 25cm shelves (the depth of a Weet Bix box) on the facing side and back wall. I just don't want it to be claustrophobically short though!

Oklouise, do you have a plan of your scullery you could share, it sounds very similar to the one I am thinking of, thanks! :)

Thanks so much for your reply :) My humble apologies for not responding sooner - I am not that good at navigating around Houzz and had not realize you had answered my question!!. Your plan looks like it could work with what I had in mind. We are only dreaming of building at this stage, but if we get to planning I would be very grateful for further help.

Hi I am really interested in this discussion for similar reasons. Currently our plans squeeze in a pantry under the stairs so 1.5 m X 1 m. Builder suggests we shrink ensuite from 3350 x 1650 to 2350 x1650 long so it becomes a proper walk in pantry 2m x1.5 m. I was concerned I will end up with two nonfunctional spaces. But it sounds like the pantry will work. What are everyone's opinion on a master ensuite size. It means I'll have a single basin vanity only 500 m wide

Can you start a new post for your dilemma and add your plans

Thanks. I think we've worked it out. Just cutting 350 mm to add to the pantry. So ensuite 1200 vanity, 800 toilet, 900 mm for shower. So 450 extra for pantry.

I think I am satisfied with my kitchen pantry layout now. I have a AI image of the pantry attached and have worked out where to put everything ........ BUT I am rethinking the need to extend the house (an the verandah as a consequence). The extension would take the internal space from 5300 x 7950 to 5300 x 9450. Is 7950 enough for a kitchen, dining, lounge.

Alternatively we could close in on side of the existing verandah to lengthen the southern side by 2895 but I'm not sure how wide this would need to be and how I would organise the space. I guess I'm just trying the avoid the expense and disruption of what seems like a small (1.5 m) extension.

What do you all think?

You need to out scale furniture into the K/L/D space. It’s not always about size, shape comes into it. And how you want to use the space for how you live.

Thanks do I just do that with some cut outs on paper?

That always works for me.

I don't think I can make it all fit in 7950. So I think i will have to accept am extension along with the associated DA and disruption etc. In a linear room I need 2810 for the kitchen; 2900 minimum for the dining including circulation space if circulation space overlaps with kitchen and lounge (which is OK); that leaves 2240 for the lounge which I think is a bit tight.

Better to work it out and know now on paper. Way cheaper.