How to conceal kitchen from front door?
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Do you get a glimpse of your kitchen from the front door?
Comments (43)Camarodreamer, I think I am more bothered by the fact that one can see directly from our front door through the front hall into the living room (and on through French doors into the back yard). It makes the living room seem too exposed, in my opinion, and too much like a transitional space rather than a destination for repose. I don't like that a person standing at the front door can see who is sitting in the living room. Does that make sense? A view into the kitchen, especially if one has the theoretical option of closing a door to block that view when the pots and pans are flying, would bother me less. Histokitch, to me, a kitchen off the driveway door seems just where you would want it: good for hauling in the groceries, ideally through a mud room with a powder room opening off the mud room. (We don't have a mud room -- that goes into the design for our next life.) This 1910 house is unusual: not a center hall colonial, and most of the utilitarian spaces (kitchen and bathrooms and dressing room and hallways and third-floor "luggage room") are in the front of the house. The nice thing about that is this: the living room, library, dining room and bedrooms open to the back yard. The house is broad and shallow so that most rooms have windows on two walls, and visible natural light from three sides in most cases. When you walk up to the front door, if you look in the windows to the right of the door you see the kitchen. It's a good way of monitoring activity on the street! Lynn...See MoreHow to tastefully conceal a dryer vent
Comments (7)Bass In the photo that I posted of the Red, Blue and Lilac colored boxes are known a "open" face boxes. With one you could pass the vent inside the space between the top and bottom shelf. Example in the photo marked "A". Then the shelf could be faced. Like the others in the sample photo below to hide the vent. Note these are all rustic floating boxes. The one has ropes to make it appear as if it is hanging. Facing a box shelf is only limited by your imagination. Anything from a piece of plain 1/4" painted or stained plywood to artwork, decorative pieces what ever you wish could be applied to the fronts. Box shelves can be bought from any different places. Or hand crafted to fit the exact opening between the counter and the wall and even with the edge of the wall. Which ever way you choose to go. Just remember to allow the box in which the vent passes through to have a removable front for servicing if needed. More samples of faced box shelves....See MoreHow to tastefully conceal a dryer vent
Comments (25)You can conceal that pipe with a bulkhead and maybe a shelf on top if you want or inside a cabinet as others mentioned. It is smooth rigid and it looks like you have all the fittings going the right way (so no lint gets caught in it). Make sure you tape all the joints well so all the moisture goes outside. Do not put decorative duct tape on it... the only tape should be aluminum tape. Remember the pipe gets hot, duct tape is not meant for that, wish we could rename it something other than duct tape. I call it duck tape. What you were worried about and cant conseal is flexible pipe (rigid or non-rigid, because of lint buildup and fire risk), and what you cant use is plastic flex (melts). Not sure why you cant have a washer/dryer in your condo. I guess there is a water damage risk and also a fire risk but isnt a condo your house...? Or do you expect him to use public washers and dryers like he is living in an apartment still. He probably just needs it inspected. Butterfly4u is right about cautioning an electricity risk, that outlet is GFCI and will be fine for the washer BUT the dryer outlet cannot be anywhere near that sink because it is 30A non-GFCI that requires a metal double pole box. So imagine a living room with a ton of items powered on being supplied by a 15A breaker, then double that and that is what the dryer uses. Another question is where is the washer draining to? I would assume the sink. Put a lint catcher on the end of the drain tube and empty it frequently so the sink doesnt get clogged and overflow causing water damage to you and other tenants. I wouldnt recommend venting inside in a 500sqft home. You would still need to run a duct so the dryer isnt blowing into the wall behind it and its going to get hot and moist real quick unless you get one of those condensing dryers. In conclusion: 1. Fire risk = looks ok and yes you can conceal it 2. Electric risk = Need dryer outlet farther behind the dryer away from the sink 3. Water Damage risk = Assuming sink drainage, put a lint catcher on the end of the drain tube and empty it frequently so the sink doesnt get clogged and overflow causing water damage to you and other tenants....See MoreFront door entry right into kitchen..looking for kitchen layout advice
Comments (14)If you want an entry area, put up a wall and have one. We have a home now where someone knocked out the wall between the nice entry and the living room and we basically put the wall back with a shoe bench and shelf arrangement (freestanding because we didn’t want to do construction work) because it just flows better that way. We also just looked at another house which we decided not to go for after much deliberation in part because if we opened it up to get much needed space, we’d end up with a big box with the front door entering right into everything, like a small apartment layout. Houses, especially houses with kids and lots of visitors, need some way to control the flow of traffic and direct people to where they should take off coats and boots and what have you. If you have room for a mud room, great, but if not - entry area is a necessity, IMO. And people are going to be beyond bored with HGTV style everything probably sooner rather than later - next year or the year after it’ll be some other designer and they will be putting walls up because everyone is sick of open plan and always being on display while cooking. If this is your forever home then do what you like and what feels good to you, not what’s popular on HGTV. (If you were going to flip the house then I might be saying something different.) Personally, if my front door were that close to my kitchen, I’d really really really want some kind of wall for privacy. Who wants all your mid-meal cooking mess to be on display to anyone who comes to the door?...See MoreStan B
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