Front Door Opens To Kitchen
Just build a wall between the foyer and kitchen allowing about 7 in width for the foyer which leaves about 17 5 for the width of the kitchen.
Front door opens to kitchen. Double front doors help create a grand appearance. A glass paneled pocket door opens to a kitchen pantry boasting a blue vintage rug placed in front of turquoise blue cabinets. No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess. In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
If i had lived there i might have come to find drawbacks with it but i loved how it brought you straight into the more enclosed kitchen instead of into the living room in that same manner i love it when a. At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic. There are two kinds of homes. The way the door swings should be considered too.
A glass paneled patio door opens to an l shaped white cottage kitchen featuring three rattan bistro bar stools positioned in front of a peninsula lit by nickel and glass lanterns hung from a white vaulted plank ceiling. The first one has an entryway a small hallway a nook near the front door or even a sharp turn that separates the front door from the rest of the home. For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it. You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room.
But you have plenty of space to have a foyer and a nice size kitchen. My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma. Which you choose is based on what works best for your home. Otoh the bath might be more accessible for family use if it opened towards the office.
And then there s the problem that the rest of us face. If all the public spaces lr dr are to the right and you re wanting to avoid guests in the kitchen it might make sense to have a door to the guest bath open into the entry hall so guests don t need to walk through the kitchen to get to the bath. This applies only to a floor plan where you literally come into the home through the kitchen. A glass panel door with a glass door knob opens to a kitchen pantry boasting a glass front wine fridge fitted beside white drawers topped with a quartz countertop.
In swing doors open inward and out swing doors open outward. It does not apply when the kitchen is set back further in the floor plan and is partially seen from the front entrance. The worst feng shui positioning of a kitchen is one in which the front door enters directly into the kitchen and the kitchen is the first space viewed.