Kitchen redesign help needed
My mum is redoing her kitchen and we need some suggestions and advice
about the plans that have been drawn up. The most important thing is
that she wants a pantry, either walk in or along a wall. I don't have a
plan of the current kitchen, but if you look at a suggested design of
the new kitchen, the wall where the oven is, she currently has a small
pantry along that wall. There is also a door currently to the left of
the panty. So the new design has the door being blocked in (which is ok,
the door really isn't needed), a pantry put into the corner and then
the oven and more shelves along the wall. The window isn't shown on drawing, but it is on the left hand wall.
I don't like the
cupboards and shelves along that wall as I think they would become a
dumping ground. I don't think they would be used in a practical way. I
think mum is also worried that the pantry and oven combo may be taking
up too much floor space. So one suggestion was to put the oven under the
hotplates & fridge also on that wall, keep the door and build a
bigger (longer & wider) pantry on the wall to the right as you look
at the drawings.
A more radical suggestion I just thought of was
if the take some space from the room behind and use the door to build a
proper walk in pantry. The room behind is a second living space and
isn't really used so this could be an option I think.
What other suggestions can houzzers think of ?
Comments (9)
PRO10 years ago- 10 years ago
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10 years ago- 10 years ago
HI Sophie,
Thanks so much for the suggestions. We would never have thought of moving the sink - I guess you get used to things where they have always been!
Just so I can understand and visual where you suggest moving things to, when you say move the fridge down to opposite the pennisula, do you mean near the entry to the kitchen (where the small three cupboards are shown on the drawing above) or where the cooktop is currently? I know one concern that my mum has is that the width of the fridge will jut out too far into the kitchen, taking up too much room. I've attached a picture with dimensions on it.
Keep the suggestions coming :)
- 10 years agolast modified: 10 years ago
I'm not sure if the measurements can be read properly on that. I'll try this one and see if it is better. The measurements are all metric :)
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