Front Door Opens Into Kitchen: Layouts, Pros & Cons
While building a home in a confined place there may be some challenges coming up.
In some of the houses, we see that the front door opens directly into the kitchen and then we can move towards other rooms.
The kitchen is a confined room that seems to be remaining in the most unorganized manner while preparing food or anything.
Some people do not stay that, much with tidiness, Kitchen seems to be usually more untidy than other rooms for those people.
Guests are people who can come suddenly and unknowingly and at that moment when your front door opens up in the kitchen and your kitchen is not in a good condition at that time, then the guests may find it awkward as well as yourself.
When one’s front door opens into the kitchen then the owner of the house should always be ready with tidiness in the kitchen, in order to create a good impression Infront of their guests
The biggest challenge in this situation would be the kitchen because if the front door opens in the kitchen then creating a good impression in one’s guests’ eyes is really tough.
There are advantages and disadvantages of having a front door that opens into the kitchen but let us try to understand the best layout for the kitchen.
Layouts
Finding a perfect place for placing the front door of the Kitchen is always stressful.
The door should be able to open freely and sufficient space should be thereafter opening it.
After opening, the other side of the door should lean to the wall or it should align to something that is not every day essential in the kitchen.
We can have an unused side of the fridge may be on the other side of the open door.
If we have the gas stoves, utensils stacker, or ingredients, there may cause some disturbances and difficulty in using.
If space is not a constraint, we can just keep the other side vacant or utilize the space for keeping some unusual things.
Pros
Kitchen decoration is the visible
Maximum time it happens that the guests will sit in the drawing-room and spend time over there and moves on, they barely come to notice your kitchen, but yes if your kitchen opens with the front main door then the kitchen decorum is visible for the guests.
It creates a good impression only when your kitchen is neat & clean for the guests to like it.
Usually, nowadays people go for decorating the kitchen more compared to the other rooms such as a modular kitchen for creating a good impression for their guests, but this is of no use if your guests do not visit your kitchen.
The chance of guests visiting your kitchen is 100% when your main front door opens into the kitchen.
More ventilation facility
If your kitchen has a door in it, then the facility of ventilation is more and the food contaminated air does not flow to other rooms to cause dirty walls and ceiling because the air goes out with the door and other rooms don’t get damaged so easily because of food contaminated air.
This air basically damages the wall and ceiling directly so if the front door opens in the kitchen then the walls will remain in good condition for a long period of time.
Ease of conversation with guests
If the kitchen is bigger and has a front door into it then the guests will usually prefer to sit in the kitchen and talk with you and this will help you to take care of your guests nicely.
Talk and cook/multitasking
In such case when the front door opens directly into the kitchen, the guests prefer to sit in the kitchen and talk with you and at the same time you can talk with the guests and prepare food as well, which saves them time.
Sometimes it happens that if the guests are sitting in the other room and you are the only member in the house to take care of them, at that time if you are cooking and sometimes going to the other room to talk accident like fire may happen in the kitchen due to some long time mistake like oil burning and getting fire/milk getting burnt/any other food getting a burn, such types of Incidents may also take place.
Because we people usually have the tendency to forget what we were doing, while we are talking with others. This may cause big accidents.
Cons
Can’t Hide the Mess
A kitchen is usually a messy place for Indian people.
In such cases, the front door into the kitchen cannot hide the mess and will create a bad impression for the people visiting the home
Noisy atmosphere for the guests
The kitchen is the noisiest place in a whole flat and when guests visit your house, they probably come to spend a good couple of time with you, but in this case, when guests are sitting in the kitchen to talk with you than the various noises like that of a pressure cooker, mixer grinder and utensils may cause disturbance for them to talk with you.
In that case, they may be found moving out of your house before spending the time they wanted to spend with you.
Smell of food vapor
Sometimes food vapor cause sneezing or coughing due to extra spice fry, in that case, the same may happen with your guests and they may get irritated from this and can create an awkward situation for yourself as well as your guest.
Solutions to the front door in Kitchen
- Talk with other members of your house to welcome the guest and make them feel comfortable to talk with each other when you have to move to the kitchen for preparing something.
- Keep some of your kitchen work into pause and go and sit with the guest and talk with them for some time and then get back to work
- In this case, you can also use a glass or curtain partition in your kitchen to make the guests get forwarded to other rooms either than the kitchen.
- If at all your front door opens at the kitchen and there is no other way out then the best thing is to always keep the kitchen in organized and cleanliness
Final Thought
We can conclude that opening the front door directly into the kitchen has some good and bad points.
If there is at all a chance to keep this problem away by letting the front door open in some other room then it can really make your guests comfortable and create a good impression in their eyes.
Disadvantages may keep your guests not visiting your home again, just because of a kitchen. So, it’s better not to let the front door open in the kitchen.
