Floor plan access from kitchen to pantry / storage room

Hello,

I have been reading here for a while and have already been able to gather some interesting information. Today, I would really like to use your experiences and knowledge :) We are a young family and are lucky to be able to build. The floor plan for our dream home is actually perfectly tailored to us so far, but the access to the pantry/storage room is causing us some headaches. Our original plan was to hide the access in the kitchen front, meaning to enter the room through the kitchen cabinet. However, this passage has to be 80 cm wide because otherwise we won’t be able to get our freezer in and out. One kitchen builder sees this as no problem, another says the door will sag over time and recommended two 40 cm doors, which I personally neither find visually appealing nor practical with always having to open two doors. Also, I don’t know, since this door doesn’t actually close "tightly," whether light will shine through there or what it will be like with possible odors from the yellow sack. The yellow sack could of course go out to the garage, but you have to consider everything ;) I have now played through a few alternatives. Once without a wall recess and door at the front, once with a wall recess and door at the front, and once in the same place as currently planned but with a normal interior door. I am attaching pictures of the current floor plan and my alternatives made with SweetHome3D. We do not want an access from the hallway to the pantry, since you have to carry the groceries to the fridge anyway ;) What do you think, what would make sense for you or how have you solved something like this? Looking forward to creative input. Best regards, Jessica

I like your original idea of disguising the door as a cupboard door. That would be my approach as well. Can't you - warning, opinion without background knowledge! - have the 80s door close with magnets and put a sealing lip inside the frame? That way it would be largely and sufficiently sealed.

The distance from the sink to the stove is much too long.
The stove is too close to the corner.
Far too many tall cabinets. You already have a pantry.

I would prefer the last option. Box in the first 3 tall cabinets and leave out the last one. That’s how we implemented it.

The path from the sink to the stove is way too long. The stove is too close to the corner. Way too many tall cabinets. You already have a pantry. I would prefer the last version. Box in the first 3 tall cabinets and leave out the last one. That’s how we implemented it.

The kitchen will not be implemented as in the floor plan, but rather as in the 3D visualizations. I think the path from sink to stove is quite normal there. I am attaching a design from a kitchen builder. You can see it quite well there. The two kitchen builders have realized the kitchen very similarly, only the entrance to the pantry not.

I would favor the last option. Just put in a door. Everything else seems complicated and unnecessarily expensive to me.

The floor plan for our dream is actually perfectly tailored to us except the access to the pantry/storage room is causing us headaches.

Most stories here about completely turned upside down and inside out designs begin with exactly such an introduction, that everything is "actually perfect" in principle. Do you have the courage to throw the entire house to the wolfish discussants?