I just moved into a new place that has much less cabinet space than my old apartment, and without any built-in dining area (my last place had an island). Here is a link to photos. Since I just moved, a lot of my storage is temporary, so for the purposes of this you can ignore anything in the photos that isn't built in.
Currently, I'm in the awkward position where I need to buy a few furniture items so that I have:
- a place to eat (I have 2 counter height bar stools, so would need a pub height table)
- a place to store what I eat (a pantry space); and
- more drawer space to store miscellaneous kitchen items and my silverware.
I'd also like to have some kind of functional entryway where I can hang my keys, purse, etc.
I'm a bit lost trying to figure out how to arrange this space. A few ideas I've had are to:
- Find a standalone island like this one.
- Buy a small cabinet for next to the refrigerator to act as a pantry, and then have a separate pub table/chairs, and have a console table by the entryway.
- Get something like the Norberg table from Ikea to put next to the entry door with hooks above it, and then get a separate pantry cabinet. My thoughts were that this might keep the floor plan a bit more open.
This is the first time I've run into this kind of storage and functionality problem, and space planning doesn't come very intuitively to me.
I don't want to spend a lot of money or time buying and assembling furniture that ultimately doesn't look good and work well, so any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated!
Submitted November 08, 2017 at 07:55AM by averagehumanfemale http://ift.tt/2m40sSg InteriorDesign
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