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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why oh why oh why would you cut off access from the kitchen to the dining room?  i'd worry more about what those tiles are in your ceiling...[/quote]

I think you misunderstood the question.  When you look at the photo of the dining room, she's trying to close off the existing door on the right, where the kitchen exits to the hallway.  There is a small L jog there for the exit.  She wants to close off the L and make it a pantry and then add a new archway.  In the photo of the dining room, she wants to move the archway about 3-4 feet to the left so that it is directly opposite the stairway behind the couch with the brown blanket.  On the photo from the kitchen, it would move the door way from the left-side of the corner to the blank patch of wall on the right side of the corner (immediately to the left of the counter with the six-plug adapter over it).  It's not a bad idea, but depending on if the wall is load-bearing (looks like it might be) and the electrical (there is a light switch on the hallway side on that patch of wall) and ductwork (there is also a vent on the living room side of the wall), it could be expensive to adjust that wall.

OP, you need to talk to a structural engineer and possibly an electrician and an HVAC guy to see how expensive this would be.  Another alternative would be to close off the corner of the dining room where you have the little buffet table and put in a pantry there (if you are standing in the kitchen facing the dining room table, the nook immediately to the left on the dining room side).  Depending on what is on the opposite side of the wall in the kitchen, you could have it open up on the kitchen side or you can have a thin slide out style pantry where the pantry shelves would slide out in front of the archway.  Something like this, but you can get all sorts of finishes and styles:

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/public/QQg1iLVIrUSyW0JQK6kjEZZC8VRyyLG91qeVSN2yrjVfx7jl-n75vKTdVfKqp0hJr9NALAyX63NDrHZr8_6_WVlcOn6rLqJHXYjhBzTfk6comGlKjKa_5wpPwq0ocYS5yGLpUiMU69qEYiwyHdZGGXA00gd2BEQ=s220-c[/img][/quote]

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