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4. Place it near the prep sink. This open pantry stands in the corner of an L-shaped kitchen, right next to the second sink. If you are fortunate enough to have two sinks in your kitchen, you may use one for prepping food, and nearby would be a natural place to keep ingredients. This open pantry is above a counter holding a standing mixer, making it a good location for baking supplies. This type of open pantry could work well as part of a dedicated baking station. The Case for 2 Kitchen Sinks
3. Capture the potential of a nearby nook. This open pantry stands in a nook that is just off — but still open to — the kitchen, and next to the home’s back door. The main kitchen cabinetry starts just to the right of the back door pictured here, as this floor plan shows. This off-the-main-path solution is a way to create an open pantry that doesn’t become a notable visual element of the main kitchen. Homeowners and their guests can see the pantry from most parts of the kitchen, but it still has some visual separation from the rest of the room. This would work well for a family that wants an easy-to-access pantry that doesn’t become a design element. See more of this home
3. Rustic Farmhouse-CottageDesigner: Jami MeekLocation: Kansas City, MissouriSize: 68 square feet (6.3 square meters)Homeowners’ request. Replace a drab laundry room with something more cottage-like. Style. Farmhouse and rustic cottage, designer Jami Meek says. Special features. Warm gray walls. Barn wood shelving and wall planks. Beadboard ceiling. Bamboo blinds. Baskets and large Mason jars on open shelving. Designer secret. “Use barn wood and other wood tones to warm up a space,” Meek says. Palazzo gray Florentina Deco field tile, 12 by 12 inches: via ProSource; Colonnade Gray wall paint: Sherwin-WilliamsSee more of this homeMoreConsidering Wallpaper? Here’s How to Get StartedHomeowner’s Workbook: How to Remodel the Laundry RoomSee an Amazing $400 Laundry Room Remodel for a Family of 8
On One End of the Main CabinetsWhen using stock prefabricated cabinetry in a kitchen, oftentimes the available cabinet sizes won’t add up to perfectly fill a wall 100 percent. Rather than leaving these last precious inches unused, consider having a small, shallow custom cabinet added to one end (on the side of another cabinet) to act as a compact pantry.Shelves only a few inches deep may not have many uses outside the kitchen or bathroom, but here they’re great for storing spices, bottles, jars and other petite containers, all within easy reach.Find a cabinet maker to help with a custom order
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