I have one tall pullout pantry which I love. It is my baking pantry. Everything stays neat and it's easy to see everything. Nothing falls off. I also have a closet-like pantry outside of the main kitchen flow for the rest of my dry food stores.

On the flip side rmkitchen says that one of the things she would change about her super fly kitchen is the tall pullout pantries. She has several next to each other and does not like not being able to see all her food stores at once. She would have preferred a regular pantry w/ pullout shelves.

HTH.

I have a 15" wide, 24" deep, tower-style pullout pantry, and also a 30" wide, 24" deep pantry that has drawers on the bottom, and shelves on top covered by doors. I love both pantries.

The 15" pullout is in my prep area, next to my main fridge, and is a great place to store staples that I routinely use during meal prep and baking-- oils, vinegars, flours, sugar, some bulk spices.

My 30" wide pantry is at the end of the island, and actually replaced a closet-style pantry. I love the drawers in the bottom-- great for canned goods and bagged snacks. The shelves behind the door hold cereal, some staples (pasta, rice), less-used baking items, etc.. The cabinetry pantry is so much more functional than my old closet pantry, not least of all because it is taller than the old closet. Also, the shelves are deeper. I guess that means that items in the back might get lost, but so far this has not been a problem for me.

I went from this:
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to this:

My original plan had been to expand the existing closet pantry, but fortunately I had the brainwave to add a 24" "kid fridge", and flank it with a 30" pantry instead. I love this set-up.

So-- I think you are wise to be thinking of a cabinetry pantry instead of a carpentry pantry (though it is more expensive). I would not do a tower pullout for anything wider than 18". For bulk storage, drawers low and shelves at eye level are IMO the best solution. You will get the best access to your shelves if you use frameless cabinetry.

And, if you can store some of your most-used items near your prep area, you will be a happy cook.

I have a 15" pullout and I love it. Technically, it has less usable space than the 16" cupboard it replaced, but the old one was face framed with fixed shelves, and the stuff at the back was inaccessible to the point of being forgotten. I'm sure some of the spice containers I found back there before the demo could be classified as "collectibles."

I like how the placement of the shelves is adjustable. I have a fair bit of stuff balanced precariously on top of other jars/tins, but I learned the hard way to limit these to soft packages. At least I can see everything, so I'm working hard to use up all the duplicates I managed to acquire during the 14 yrs lived in a dated kitchen with too many deep dark cupboards.

I have a 12" pullout and love it. I also have a 24" pantry with rollouts. Both cabinets are frameless, so there is maximum use of that space. My stuff is divided mostly dry in the rollouts and most of the bottles, cans and jars in the pullout.

Before this, I have a corner pantry -- about 4" on either side with deep shelves on one side and shallower on the other. Because of the door placement, there were no shelves on the third side and only the door on the fourth. I can store more things more neatly and more easily managed in half the space with the cabinets. Nothing has ever fallen from either.

Anyone have pics?

Mine is like the one below but with my cabinet panel on the front. They aren't that complicated adn most are one of a few types. If you order form a cabinet maker, you will get the type they use. If you add it later, you have your choice of those available from folks like Revashelf, Hafele, etc.

Here is a link that might be useful: Revashelf pantry tower