Really important that would can fully open fridge doors so you can get trays out to clean etc. don’t compromise the amount of space around fridge required for ventilation either. Check the fridge specifications. You don’t need a door on wip if you can have cabinet doors and drawers enclosing food. Most butler pantry doors get left open most of the time anyway

Is the curved wall practical. Looks like it might restrict access to the lower cabinet where you need to bend down to reach into cabinet

Your pantry is very tight. Even without the door you have the fridge squished in, and the curve does restrict access to that cabinet as pointed out above. I would have a door because it’s easy to include at construction stage even if most times it’s left open, however you need to need to see if you can push a bit more space into the pantry for the space issues.

Your pantry is not going to (gonna) look weird with no door. But if the cupboards opposite the curve have to be opened fully that is going to (gonna) be weird.

And just to expand. Fridge doors typically need to swing out more than 90 degrees. Check the fridge manuals. They can be downloaded

Pocket door, maybe.

A pocket door/sliding door needs the space to slide back into. Therefore your fridge door will never open the full opening, up to 90 degrees, with that necessary place for your sliding door when open. Unless you can move fridge across to the left….I would reduce that fridge wall to in line with other cabinets. Do not install a door. The curve is problematic with opening of storage at the curve. Can you square off the pantry and install the sliding door on that new straight wall. This will then solve both issues. Form follows function. You could still have a slight curve for interest, but less curve.

Do you already have the fridge? If not, go look at in a store. My fridge needs to open more than 90 deg to get the vege drawer out. I like dreamer's drawing.

Great point on veggie drawer. Will be a problem for any freezer drawers also.

Any pantry door will pose problem for fridge. It would be ridiculous to have to open pantry door to be able to open fridge door. Solution may be to move fridge

Good idea. Is being the fridge out to the cabinet adjacent to it outside the pantry. And put that cabinet inside the pantry. It may also improve traffic flow overall. I’m all foe things being tucked away but it has to work functionally for the occupants. In my house a tucked away fridge would mean someone getting stabbed when they come in for the snack-that-can’t-wait until dinner.

I thought the fridge was in the kitchen proper already, to the left. If it’s inside the pantry, well that is silly.

I read it as the fridge is on the left outside the pantry and has a filler on the RH to allow better opening (More swing angle) of the RH door?

I read it as the fridge inside with over head cabinets but that could be pull out drawers. We need more info.

A full kitchen plan would help move this dilemma forward

Bigreader, when I said move the fridge to the left, I meant within the kitchen proper, as I already thought the fridge was outside the pantry. If the fridge was moved maybe 10cm-20cm to the left, and a tray cupboard was installed between fridge and pantry, then it doesn’t matter how long the dividing wall is between kitchen and pantry.

Hello there, Do you need a door on pantry? no! Do you want to be able to close it off sometimes? yes. So add the door. Cavity slider will be good except the depth between the fr and pantry is possibly only 650mm so not enough for a door wider than 600. NO good. Therefore two things: can we see the whole plan please to see if this is the best place for fr? Not sure it is! And if you make the curved wall straight for about 600mm by the cabinets at the bottom then you can get to the cupboards easier and the cav slider can fit better with a proper size (as in 820 std width) door.... make sense? Looks interesting with the curve but it is not right as it is drawn IMO. Margot

Our pantry doesn’t have a door. I always wanted an open one. We have to keep the space tidier than closed one but we don’t mind that. I won’t have a door if I would have your pantry.

Wonderful space millymu.

I like the curved wall and I think that there might just be open shelves/floor cabinet at the curved end of the pantry. I would prefer not to have a door on a pantry, who wants to work in a cupboard.