The pantry is a small room, usually off the main kitchen area, used to store food provisions that do not need to be kept in a fridge. It is also a good place to store cooking utensils when not needed. The pantry room does not usually have a window therefore it relies on electric ceiling mounted light or borrowed light through a glass panel fitted to the access door.
If your pantry door is a solid door type, and you wish to add a touch of class, then replace it with a framed wooden door with a full height glass panel. Pantry doors are available in many varieties of wood species such as pine, red and white oak, fir, mahogany, walnut, and cherry to mention only a few. A pantry would normally be a framed door with a full height glazed panel. The door could be stained or painted maybe to match with other internal doors or similar surfaces in the kitchen.
The pantry door with a full height glass panel gives you excellent opportunity to have it decorated any way you choose. Etched glass designs are very popular and the designs are endless. Many companies will provide the etching process in a choice of many standard designs or they will produce a design bespoke for your needs, perhaps a design incorporating the family name or logo or simply the word ‘Pantry’ whatever you want.
If you feel like something really classy why not choose to have the glass panel made from ‘leaded glass’ which incorporates strips of lead with coloured glass cut into different shapes. Glass pantry doors like this will be a lot more expensive, but well worth it. Another way to decorate standard glass is to have all four edges bevelled which give the panel a different dimension.
Beautiful samples of leaded glass
If you are on a budget etched effect stick on vinyl, cut to your chosen design, can be adhered to the glass panel and can also look fantastic.
You can buy the door and glass all in one go or if you already have the door you can just have the glass panel with the design etched out for you.
The standard door sizes available are 2’, 2’4”, 2’6” wide and 6’8”, 7’ and 8’ high. If none of these suit then custom doors could be made to suit your needs.
Whatever design you choose to have on the glass be sure that glass itself is safety type. Toughened or tempered glass is probably the preferred option. Toughened glass if broken will shatter into small blunt pieces and the risk of injury is reduced. Toughened glass is usually about ¼” thick (6mm) which is ideal if you plan to bevel the edges.
The choice is yours……