Kitchen rearranging

My kitchen needs help. I would love more working space. We were thinking of an island, but believe I dont have enough room with my dining table which I love. So we were thinking of ideas on how to rearrange it. We thought about moving the fridge, but cant decide where, we will or thought about also moving the pantry cabinets as well to the laundry room, the second door to the left. The 3rd picture shows the laundry room, so I thought about buying at some point stackable laundry washer and dryer unit and putting the pantry cabinet there where the dryer is now. That way I could expand with more cabinets above and below and have counter space all the way through that corner, where the fridge is and down that wall until hitting the window. But my problem is the fridge, I was thinking of moving it, to the living room, that corner where the staircase is to go upstairs, raising the wall behind the staircase and making that part of the kitchen, to put the fridge and removing that strip of carpet from wall to wall to keep the open space, basically making the kitchen a bit bigger and the living room smaller. The first door to the left thats closed is the entry downstairs to the basement , so cant move that. Not sure if the fridge would look to awkward behind the door of the entry for the basement. This is all I could come up with, so as you see I need help figuring out what would work. Please help me with ideas to make my kitchen more functional, I have very few cabinets and very little working space as well.
thanks for your help.
Ruth

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toni wrote:

You have more cabinets and counter space than I have in my kitchen. Wink

Moving the fridge that far away from your work area will not make the kitchen more functional, that will be a major inconvenience when preparing meals.

Does that pantry store items other than food? Items like cleaning supplies, paper products and other non-food items?

How about moving the fridge down to where the pantry is then add upper and lower cabinets from that corner to the side of the fridge. It looks like the new upper cabinets would be sufficient to take the place of the pantry as far as food storage goes.

The pantry could be moved to the laundry to hold the non-food items or to the garage. Or instead of using the pantry at all, how about loading the wall above the washer and dryer with shelves to hold the non-food items. There is a whole lot of wall there and to the side of the dryer not being used to the the best advantage.

Hi, the pantry holds basically sacks of flour, sugar, and canned goods, cereal and stuff like that. a few paper items like towels and stuff, but my concern in moving the fridge where the pantry is, is that you'll see the back of the fridge from the living room. what do you think? Also the side of the dryer, on the other wall is the door to the furnace room. I was thinking how to utilize the space on the other wall opposite to the washer/dryer, behind the stove, but seems that the room would be to small with the pantry or the fridge in the same room as the washer and dryer, (which from your idea, I believe, would make it very inconvenient as well when cooking),