text: Fridge in Pantry instead of Kitchen
  My kitchen will be open plan with an island and 2.3m wall behind the island with pantry and scullery door on either side of this wall. My plan was to install the gas hob and extractor on the 2.3m wall, a prep sink in the island as I will have wash up area in the scullery. My question is: Is it sensible to install a fridge in a pantry instead of kitchen itself? as it will spoil the design if it has to be installed in the kitchen. Photo of kitchen plan attached.
  If you think it'll spoil the design of the kitchen feel free to have it in the pantry. Although it's not common to have it in there, it's your house.
  Naughty kitchen no-no's
  One of my pet peeves was with my ex, he insisted he would help wash the pots/pans that could not go in the dishwasher. However, even if they sat in the sink for days he would get angry at me for "not trusting him to keep his word" if I washed them before he got to it. So my choices were to wait - sometimes weeks - with the same dirty pots sitting in the sink and unable to use them for cooking until they were clean or wash them myself and get yelled at and send him into a spiral of depression since he had bipolar tendencies. Oh - and of course if I ever mentioned the fact that there were unwashed pots in the sink or asked when he would get to them that was considered "nagging" and would cause another argument and subsequent depression.
  Prep only kitchen island dimensions
  I was hoping to have an island, but as I stand in the old kitchen and measure and open oven doors...it feels like it might get in the way. I'll be pushed up against the island when I open up the oven door! I do a lot of cooking. I have 3 ft on one side of the oven and 2 feet between the oven and the prep sink. If I remove the island, there is 8' between the sink/fridge wall and the oven. Perhaps a portable prep station that I can put in front of the pantry wall? Style is farmhouse/country...could custom build a little prep island on casters.