Post a floor plan.

or post photos.

This is the only photo I can get at the moment!

What the heck were they thinking?

No! lol I have no idea what they were thinking!!!!!

How big is the space if the pantry were removed?

from fridge to right-wall: _____

from wall-behind-fridge to the stove: ______

Rip it out and add cabinets.

Haha sorry i was distracted by the hobbit door. When you take it out id do a proper run of cabs and a corner cab. If you like open shelving I’d keep some but add lower cabs and proper countertop. This is all pending the rest of your floor plan. I see no useable counter space!

It is just about 4 feet from the fridge to the wall and about 7 feet from the wall behind the fridge to the stove. I'm standing in the doorway that leads to the other room and on the left wall are free standing shelves (for now) and then the back door in the corner. The ceiling is only 7' high so I'm trying to figure out how to get it clean cut and make it feel a little bigger. I wish I could move the refrigerator to the right of the doorway, and the extend the counters around the corner where the pantry is, all the way to the stove. But I think we'd have to move the gas line to do that, and I don't know if having the refrigerator right by the doorway would make it feel too cramped. Thoughts?

Why not just build out the pantry toward the stove. Eliminate the original door to it, get rid of the open shelving and make that wall part of the pantry.

We had our fridge in our old house right next to the door way into the kitchen from the garage and it worked fine for us.

Hope you get lots of suggestions.

It would work as a broom closet.

An idea - swap the stove and the refrigerator. From the stove in its new position, turn the corner to a wall of storage around the refrigerator on the current stove wall.