This dry pantry + coffee bar cost us $4K 💰🫢

One thing that we were certain about in our home reno was to have an open kitchen in order to have a large living area / main space. However, we were naturally concerned that having an open kitchen meant sacrificing essential storage space.

Fortunately, our ID proposed a great idea to have a dry pantry area that maximised the use of space. We have a display kitchen + oven cabinet and coffee bar area, which is one of the first things that you see when you first enter our home. This cabinet also nicely doubles up as a partition, with a sliding fluted door separating off our "hidden" entryway + shoe cabinet, study & bomb shelter area.

We like that this coffee bar and kitchen + oven cabinet gives us extra space to store our glasswares, pantry items as well as our kitchen appliances. We also have our wine chiller, oven and microwave, which is hidden inside the cabinet for a neater look.

The second part of our pantry is an open shelving area, where we keep other dry pantry items. It is situated beside our kitchen island at the beam structure wall, which might otherwise have been an unused dead space.

💰 Cost breakdown

▫️Partition wall - $1K

▫️Oven cabinet - $900

▫️Display kitchen cabinet - $1.4K

▫️Counter top - $360

▫️Shelves - $600

Total for Coffee bar area - $4.4K

Additional item:

▫️Sliding door - $2K

Given the additional space and storage created, this dry pantry area solved the problems of having a smaller kitchen. However, the downsides would be the costs.

Let us know if you think it was worth it!

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