I wish I could answer this for you. Unfortunately my Ikea tall pantry is standing up in our eating area waiting to be installed as part of the slowest cabinet installation of all time. It likely won't be installed for another week.

We bought a 90" high 24" wide pantry with a 30" door on top and 60" door on bottom. There will be 3 medium and 3 low drawers in the main section.

It is this cabinet I am most excited about because it will be something that is truly different from our old kitchen. Our new kitchen will have a very similar layout, but we added the pantry to an unused desk area, and I think it is going to be great. We do have a pantry/closet in the kitchen, but it has shelves, and I am really looking forward to the drawers and being able to easy get things in the back of them.

I am not much help either, lol. We just installed a 90 high and only 15 wide pantry a few weeks ago. I chose the one door with 3 interior drawers and 3 drawers. I LOVE that it holds so much. I really like having the drawers so things are not lost in the back like our last shorter pantry with no drawers. I have not gotten it totally organized because I am still deciding where to put everything.

We also have a small pantry closet with shelves. I like the drawers so much that I am considering adding them in it as well.

Love, love, love both of mine - Akuurum, by the way, not Sektion. Right now they hold everything I have in the kitchen - everything. They are installed, technically, but will be uninstalled and re-installed as work progresses. Please don't judge - no door fronts and the place is still a construction zone.

Thank you for answering. I look forward to seeing your kitchens and hearing how you like your pantries. I can't figure out what size to get. Like Lisa I am keeping the same layout, except for the pantry. It will be where a double oven cabinet currently is. I am trying to get a bit more counter space, thus pantry size indecision. (Actually this kitchen reno planning has been one long string of indecisions! Main one is will I regret exchanging wall oven for pantry) Eam thank you for the photo. What size is your pantry? A lot does fit in there. Is there an Ikea kitchen in progress thread?

I'm pretty sure it's 24" wide X 24" deep X 90" high. I have 8' ceilings. I'm not aware of an IKEA specific progress thread, but my reno has been moving in fits and starts. My latest contractor broke his foot and will be out for two months. I'm starting to feel the reno is cursed. Calling all ritual cleansers in northeast Ohio, please bring sage...

@gldcc, have you tried posting your layout here? You might get some good ideas. I got some help with my layout early on when I was trying to figure out my dishwasher placement.

I don't know of an Ikea progress thread, but that is not a bad idea. It makes me feel a little better to know mine is not the only one slow going. :-) Mostly I've seen comments about how Ikea kitchens were the ones that could get completed quickly, but they can be just as complicated as all the others. The only thing that is fast is buying the cabinets.

We are doing all the work ourselves (including new drywall, some new electrical and other fixes). We have truly worked every single work night and every weekend day (with some days off as well) without a break other than two days when we went out of town.

We were doing pretty good up until we got to the cabinet install. That is going VERY slowly while trying to make things perfectly level and strong enough for the granite overhang we will have at our peninsula. I was hoping we would be scheduling our granite measure appointment for this week, but we are not nearly ready. The upper cabinets are installed and level, but the base cabinets will take more time. We have a peninsula that needed a base built for the cabinets, and getting that level with the cabinets hanging on the rails lining up with the tall cabinets at the end is taking some time.

I do love the flexibility of the Ikea cabinets. The only things that has been hard is figuring out how all the pieces fit together. Having someone else do the install would have helped a lot!

I just put in a 15" x 24" x 90" pantry (we don't even have countertops yet) and I already love it. It have 2 doors-5 drawers at the bottom and shelves at the top.

I am losing a bit of counter space but is it so worth it. Since I've always lived in apartments in very large cities and then bought my house in the very central part of a city, I've never had a pantry in my adult life! I put it just to the right of my refrigerator so it works well framing it, giving it a more built in look.

I have an Ikea (akurum) pantry and LOVE it!! I think it is the same size as eam44's 24x24x90. I too have 8 foot ceilings. I have a small door on top and one shelf in the middle, and I have 5 rollouts on the bottom. It holds a LOT! I keep basic pantry staples in there plus snack foods for school lunches. The very bottom has a space under the bottom rollout where the hinges are, and I put my cookie sheets under there. I had no other space for them really and otherwise, it's a waste of space. I think it's about 3-4 inches of space there.

I'm sure Ikea still makes a 30" wide pantry if you're wanting to fill the void of where wall ovens came out. But, what is on each side of the wall oven?

With Ikea tall cabinets, you'll have to buy finished tall end panels to finish off the sides of the pantry if there's no cabinet or wall next to it. So that would add additional width to the 30" pantry.

Ikea has some great storage options.

my ikea pantry is installed, but not yet being used. it's 90" tall, 24" wide and 15" deep. (There is a 15" deep broom closet in back of it which opens into the mudroom.) I will have a 30" door on top with 1 shelf behind it, and a 60" door on the bottom with 5 rollouts. I'm expecting this pantry to hold pretty much all of my cans + food not requiring refrigeration. We live in an urban area with nearby grocery stores, we don't have kids living in the house anymore, or pets, so I think this will be enough. I'm not really a costco shopper - as long as I can store enough to get me through the week, I'm happy.

This is a wealth of information. Thanks! I have thought of submitting my design for the wonderful eyes of GWers, but I still have some decisions to make before I can even get that far. Mainly the hold up is range vs wall oven/cooktop. I have never had a range. Kind of intrigued by the idea. My kitchen is simple and not very big. I won't be having any walls moved or structural transformations. It is in a 1946 ranch style house that has been extensively renovated and added on to over the years. It has been in the family most all of that time. I moved in 10 years ago and at that time all attention went to the bathrooms, getting all the carpet up, new floors, painting etc., so the kitchen was put on hold. I am afraid it would still be on hold, if the floor hadn't gotten a bit overly spongy. I had a pantry in my old house and loved it and do really miss it, so am possibly willing to go for the range to have one again. Being as I would like a bit more counter, I am not sure what size. Oh, my kitchen is a wide galley. The current double ovens, which we hardly ever use except for Thanksgiving, are in a corner against a wall. Interestingly, to me at least, my mother remodeled the kitchen in 1989 (age of ovens) and put all drawers in the base cabinets. I do love those! So that side of the kitchen is doorway, 42 cab, 30 cab with cooktop, 42 cab, 27 oven cab with 3 inch filler in corner. The whole run is confined by the corner with oven cab and the other end by the doorway. I need to put this on graph paper and post. All your input is very helpful.

I love a range- they are pretty standard in professional kitchens so that's something.

I guess I don't get the advantage to a wall oven and cooktop, especially since you seem to lose space?

I have a 30" range and I love it, I wouldn't need anything bigger.

Nola I know this is ot, but being as you said you love your range, would you mind telling me what kind you have? Looking for appliances feels like negotiating a mind field these days. If I go with a range, I can have more counter space and a pantry! And after reading the above comments, I really want one.

We have two in the house we recently bought. One is 24" wide and the other is 30" wide. While they both have pull-outs and store a lot of stuff, we can't tell what each item is when we open the drawer. We finally started writing on the tops of everything. So, each can that goes in is labeled "green beans, chicken rice soup, etc". Each box of pasta has to be labeled or we have to lift each one up until we find the right box. We miss our old walk-in pantry! Will not have pantry cabinets in the new kitchen.

@Cindy H, that is a good point. Have you considered getting more of the low drawers and storing cans on their sides so you can see them? I think you could still store a decent amount per drawer, and there is room for more low drawers.

I switched out the standard config of the cabinet to include more low drawers so I could store things on their sides. I can't vouch for this yet, but I believe cans should fit that way pretty well. I will just have to remember which drawers in the stack hold what. I may even put labels on them. There is also the option of the wire drawers which help you see things better. I may be adding one of two of these.

We love ours, but I wish we had gone wider. We did 18" and I didn't consider how much room the hardware for the pull outs takes up. The drawers end up being pretty narrow. In hindsight, I wish I had pulled 6" from somewhere else and had gone with a 24" pantry.

Our range is Jenn-Air. I love it. Our 100+ yr old house was newly renovated when we bought it 7 years ago and the stainless jenn-air range came with it. We are renovating now to update the finishes to something more to our taste but not changing the appliances. No need to!

I think we are going to do each pullout by category so it should be easy to find every thing. One for spices, one for dry goods, one for baking, one for liquids (oils, vinegar etc) one for Asian ingredient. The the upper shelves will be other...

We use almost no canned goods and are only 2 people so it might be a little easier for us.

Lisa, more of the shallow drawers would definitely be the way to go if you're designing something new. You almost have to put your things in a drawer and see how they work to know how tall each one should be. Of course the cost goes up with every additional drawer!

Noladesign mentioned spices in the pantry pull outs. That would be an excellent space for them in a shallow drawer with one of the spice organizers.

Thank you all! Xochitl the photos are really helpful and I like the drawers high up. Really high cabinets are almost useless for anything not right in front. You sure are organized!

I'm in the midst still of building my Ikea kitchen. You're not alone. It's been over a year. I have an 80"H X 30"W cabinet for the pantry. I did 3 drawers below and 2 doors. The entire pantry is all drawers (8). I did one pull out shelf.

I didn't want stationary shelves since the cabinet was so deep at 24"D. The upper drawers are used for extra goods. The lower drawers all have clear containers and I label the top of the container. I can see the ingredients inside along with the names.

For the middle drawers, I used baskets with labels.

Sadly, I'm not very organized, which is why it's so important to try to keep my kitchen organized! The drawers in upper part of tall cabinets are helpful in getting things in and out, but I have to use my step ladder to access them. The slimmest I found was on from frontgate http://www.frontgate.com/ultralight-slimline-3-step-ladder/600612

You can see it in pic of cab with cleaning supplies. Good luck!

I put a 15" wide pullout pantry in my 2008 Ikea kitchen. Have been using it for 8 years, it's the best thing ever. I can cram so much stuff in there.

Could you please show pics of your 15" pantries? We've been in the house 10 years and have finally decided on the pantry/fridge/china cabinet/freezer wall. A 30" pantry would function better, but the wall looks a lot better with a 15" on either side of the china cabinet. We still have to order some more drawers. Fortunately there are some AKURUM drawers available on eBay. I sure wish I could find more of the gray interior drawer fronts.

This is an old post, but can anyone share a picture of an 18"x24"x90" ikea pantry with roll-outs?