BDA: The Kitchen – Hall/Entry

Before: If you remember, this was the congestion point of the kitchen. The refrigerator was in the hallway, the bathroom across from it. We often had to walk through the dining room if someone was getting something out of the fridge – and inevitably piling it on the stove. Steve has few scars on his head from gouging it on the stove vent hood corner when moving things from the fridge to the stove and visa versa. There also was a false ceiling with the cute beehive lamp.

During: Fridge gone, and walls stripped down to the chimney, which is to the right.

The area was framed to be a pantry. The door to the dining room is on the right (with the Do Not Open sign.

After: It has taken us a while to not “shrink in” when we go through this area (you can see the cat thought I was taking pictures of her). The pantry is filling up of course. The doors are millwork doors from the lumberyard, which was less expensive than kitchen cabinets. We went with sliding doors since we were so tired of the hallway being blocked by open doors. The doors come in standard heights, so we have a shelf above the panty for “decorative storage” – I’m still working on what that should be. There is a small recessed light, in addition to the hall light, to illuminate whatever wonderful items end up there.