Pantries are a wonderful addition to a kitchen and is a very important consideration in any kitchen renovation. To create a consistent theme, it is important to choose the right type of pantry doors to fit in the overall decor of the kitchen. Traditionally pantries are use to store bread bins, cases of wine, olive oils and food items needed to be stored in dry and cool rooms. Today’s pantries are use to store large amount of food and wares of all kinds for kitchen organization and storage. If you have a walk-in type of pantry or intent to build one during your kitchen makeover, you need to choose a good pantry door not just to fit in the kitchen decor but must be able to keep the pantry room sealed and kept cool. Discuss with your designer if you can install vents into the coolest wall at the back of the kitchen pantry to keep the room cool.
Pantry Door Designs
You do not need to design your own pantry door as there are many companies that can custom made for you or you can buy ready made off-the-shelf doors from places such as home depot. However, you have to make a decision on the pantry door design so that it is easier to go shop for one or custom make one. How do you want your pantry to look? The style, the design, the material of the pantry door and so on. Designers can give you some ideas to start. Usually in America, the kitchen styles can Traditional, French Classic or Contemplorary. As part of your kitchen planning, you need to consider the material of the door. Do you want a full wood or glass pantry door?
Wood Pantry Doors
If you’ve decided to go for wood pantry doors, consider the type of wood to be use and consider it to blend in with your kitchen cabinet’s material. Whether you want a Flat-Panel door, Glass Frame Door, Raised Panel Door or PVC laminated door. We do recommend you choose the wood look of Oak, Maple, Cherry, Hickery, Pine and other hardwood for traditional looks of your kitchen.
Glass Pantry Doors
For the French Door style, you should consider frosted glass french doors or etched glass pantry doors for a contemplorary design. The interesting thing about glass pantry doors is you can request door manufacturers to custom etched a glass design to your liking, so that your door is unique and one of the kind.
Pantry Door Organization
To fully utilize their pantry storage space, some home owners, install over the door pantry organizers. Over the door racks and shelves can be installed on rear of the pantry door to store spices or jugs of dry food. Some people place chalkboards on pantry doors to write to do list and reminders. So if you have these ideas in mind, you need to choose the appropriate door style and designs to suit.
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