Pantry Closet Door - open to laundry or kitchen?

11 years ago

The kitchen I'm remodeling has an old refrigerator niche (too small for a new 36 refrigerator) that I am closing in for a pantry closet (32x33). My kitchen flows into a laundry area/mudroom. The niche is placed such that, when I close it in, I could put the door either in the laundry area or the kitchen area. I can see that it would look "cleaner" to have the door in the laundry area and a blank wall in the kitchen area instead of "all cabinets and doors". It's not as though opening the door in the laundry would be further away from anything. I'm looking for other opinions here...would you have the door in the kitchen area or the laundry area?

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User
11 years ago
Will you post a photo, please?
Laura Ready
Original Author
11 years ago
Please be kind with your critiques - we found an older chalet home with fantastic views and are remodeling the entire first floor, and the demo has begun :) You can see the refrigerator there, and the area with the door at the back is the laundry. The half-wall on the left and the new wall will be even with each other.
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itsallaboutthefood
11 years ago
Personally I would prefer to have the door in the kitchen since it looks like if the door is in the laundry room, it could block the walkway from the outside door through the kitchen when open.
User
11 years ago
Will you have a door that closes off the laundry area? Where will the fridge be? Where do you expect to do prep? (If you prep at that counter next to the fridge, it might be marginally easier to grab stuff out of the pantry and immediately place there.)
Laura Ready
Original Author
11 years ago
Itsallaboutthefood, it would. We'd do a barn door/slider if we place it in the laundry area.
Loloauren, We are back and forth on the door to the laundry area. We'd have a 36 inch door that would open towards the laundry room wall (on the right side of above pic). If we do that, the door will be in the kitchen by default. I was originally going to do a pantry cabinet there, but my budget did not allow it.The fridge will be to the left of the sink, which is under the window. I have three feet of counter there for that kind of prep.
This is our empty-nest/retirement home, so it will be just the two of us most of the time.
User
11 years ago
You didn't ask, but I would opt for a (preferably pocket) door to close off the laundry area for noise reasons.

I think you can't go too-wrong with either choice you have. Having the pantry door in the kitchen might make the most sense for unloading and grabbing groceries, but not by much. Something to consider is that my pantry door is hardly ever closed. The door doesn't block anything, but it isn't a good look. :) If it were in the laundry area, at least it wouldn't be visible.

This post was edited by lolauren on Fri, Jan 2, 15 at 13:17
Laura Ready
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks, lolauren, that is definitely an idea...I had not thought of a pocket door for the laundry area. I initially wanted a barn door that could slide to alternate between closing the laundry or the pantry, but wasn't sure I could deal with having the pantry open when I was doing laundry. I think we'd have room for a pocket door to the laundry room, and then be able put the pantry door in the laundry area.