Kitchen design advice
kelbel213
6 years ago
We are in the process of doing a complete kitchen renovation and we are stuck on one section of the design. We have a French door fridge (width 912mm depth 758mm). The plan is for the fridge to be located in the room next to our current kitchen and also incorporate a pantry next to it. The first design we had was with 2 full height pantry's either side enclosing the fridge however as the left side is an entry door we felt this was too bulky. We have since tried different options but are still not satisfied with how it looks. I've attached a few pics of the kitchen design with different options for the fridge section. I am looking for any suggestions as to what is the best layout for us.
Width of wall where fridge is located is 2500mm and the wall next to it is 1700mm wide.
Width of wall where fridge is located is 2500mm and the wall next to it is 1700mm wide.
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oklouise
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (4)een a long time since you posted this-i have just come across, and wonder if you went ahead? if not, i do have some feedback. i think that your planned space for fridge would be something you will regret. it makes for a very congested workspace, having to go past both sink and stove to get to fridge. and if you have kids-just dangerous, if they want drinks and snacks whilst you are cooking. personally, if you were planning to forgo the powder room anyway, i would put the fridge in that space, with storage behind(accessed from other side- for those things that only come out now and then)..and where you planned for the fridge, make floor to ceiling cupboards, for pantry, etc. you could even have an appliance garage, etc built in there. cheers...See MoreKitchen design advice sought
Comments (11)before making any decison you'll need to check with Council about enclosing an outdoor space but, as your wish list included greater opening to the kitchen and better access when the fridge doors are open, my suggestion has new corner cabinets with splashback windows with deep counters and wall cabinets, space for the big fridge, stacked wall oven and MW and, subject to the precise location of the window, wall cabinets and built in range hood over a row of drawers under the cooktop as well as the standard dishwasher, double sink and cabinets...there's no tall cabinets to maximise counter space and the deep counter next to the fridge makes room for appliances to stand together out of the way ready to use and there's potential storage over the end of the stairs and extra shallow storage could also be inside the wall along the stairs ...the central island could be a simple table with space under for stools and bins or a fixed base cabinet with 30cm deep cabinets along one side and knee space for a couple of small stools on the other so, instead of a narrow closed in kitchen theres a much more open kitchen with a central island...See MoreKitchen design advice
Comments (37)Without knowing where your house is and the climate So climate permitting I would open up the the house from the front living/lounge right through to the rear kitchen deck removing the doors as I have shown and creating one long family room. Don't keep those views for when you have visitors or when you might use that front room, I believe in using the whole house everyday not just for special occasions, It's a bit like saving the best crockery for special occasions The current Living room is perfect as that, which can be closed off during the evening and left open during the day letting light and easterly morning sun in through those beautiful windows. I count myself very lucky to have water views, my house opens up to this which is such a lovely calming outlook that I never tire of. As has been revealed you have a beautiful house with more rooms than were expected and find it hard to go with a combined laundry pantry with so much available space. The new kitchen needs to balance with the number of rooms and size of your house. It's OK to change your mind it's your house and better to do so now before anything is finally locked in....See MoreDesign Advice Please! For our Kitchen and Pantry
Comments (5)Have a think about how you use your current kitchen, the good and the bad. Will a Butler’s Pantry enhance the good and remove the bad? I’m very much looking forward to my future walk in pantry but have spent many hours considering how I will use it. I won’t be doing daily food preparation in there. For me I’ll have a large storage area, some open shelves and a large bench space with all my appliances plugged in and ready to go. The two of you won’t make much mess to be concealed from each other, and when family are there I’m assuming there are more people in the kitchen so bench space is more important that the Butlers. But only you know how you live and cook. PS. I love Studio McGee also, season two of theirs is due out soon....See Moreme me
6 years agooklouise
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agokelbel213
6 years agooklouise
6 years agokelbel213
6 years agoIt will be our only pantry for food storage and we also need a place in that area for our coffee machine. I will likely have our other appliances (toaster & kettle) on bench next to cooktop. I have attached a house plan showing our current kitchen. It is the only plan I have.
The 3 entry's are - 1. Into our study (near sink) 2. Entry from front door, 3. Entry into hallway leading to kids bedrooms etc.
oklouise
6 years agokelbel213
6 years agooklouise
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoso may options to consider but my preferred choice with the most counter space and pantry storage would be to have the last option with an L shaped base cabinets with tall wall cabinet pantry rather than tall pantry with tall doors
this last option includes open counters for using appliances and drawers and wall cabinets for pantry storage and 1050 x 1050 corner base cabinet for out of sight storage of big appliances etc
the open counter will feel more spacious than the tall doors and the big fridge has no better place to go
kelbel213
6 years agooklouise
6 years agoanything is possible but again i suggest that you need to think about teh size and shapes of everything what would be stored in the spaces in the meantime here's a very ugly coloured view of my last idea that has a counter space for coffee machine
oklouise
6 years ago750 deep x 1500 long blind corner pantry with 900 wide base and wall cabinets with space for coffee machine
jojoemetoo
6 years agojojoemetoo
6 years agokelbel213
6 years agokelbel213
6 years agojojoemetoo
5 years agokelbel213
5 years agoHi everyone, I have narrowed my choices down to 3 scenarios and have done a very rough sketch of each scenario. I was wondering if someone is able to provide me with a 3D visual of the 3 ideas to see if they will work as I do not know how to do this?
Scenario 1 - Single pantry on either side of fridge, with a gap on the left side for clearance from the entry and on the right side a narrow wine/book storage cabinet with open shelves at the top and closed door at bottom (see picture attached).
Scenario 2 - double pantry on left side with gap on left for entry clearance and fridge on right side with narrow wine /book shelf to the right of the fridge.
Scenario 3 - single pantry on left side of long wall with gap on left of fridge and on right side of fridge a corner counter top with open corner shelving and a gap on the end of the right side (short wall) for entry door clearance.
Thanks so much for your help.
Kelly
kelbel213
5 years agooklouise
5 years agohere's a cross section of the first two options and 3d view of all three
the second option allows for a pantry about 1300 wide and 1800 tall with narrow bifold? doors, space to stand at the fridge with an open door out of the path of people walking through and the narrow wine storage keeps the fridge away from the wall so the fridge door can open further ... and the overhead cabinets can go up to the ceiling with matching sized doors for rarely used storage
kelbel213
5 years agooklouise
5 years agooption 4
having the wall shelves narrower than the base cabinet keeps the line of sight clear to the doors
kelbel213
5 years agooklouise
5 years agokelbel213
5 years agoOk I like these two the best. Can I have some opinions from everyone as to which option you prefer?
Option 1 - single pantry on either side.
Option 2 - double pantry on left side.
oklouise
5 years ago
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