Small pantry help. Pics and/or advice needed
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cand1781
7 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (22)Have you put models of the furniture onto the floorplan? The small bedrooms are quite small -- 8'6" = 102" which means a twin bed with a quilt (40"+) snugged tight to one wall will leave about 5' in room width which is not very much. If you don't snug the bed to the wall (and against the window which *not* a good idea) then one would have to sidle sideways to move around it. And where will a bureau be put -- and could one open the bottom drawer all way out? I don't object to small bedrooms but I do think pushing the vacuum while standing sideways is awkward. Or to put it another way-- which is bigger, the bedroom or your car? Measure before answering. Figures on the plan: 7'7" + 3'3" does not equal 11'1" My usual refrain: Narrow doorways are extremely difficult to maneuver even without crutches. Pick up your loaded laundry basket -- and your fists on the handles will extend wider than your body: measure the distance between outer side of left fist and outer side right fist ... my small basket requires 34" doorways if I plan to go through without smacking my knuckles into the doorframe. The plan shows 32" doorways into BRs and bath (PR has 30"). Yes, you can use the skinny widths, but I truly doubt you'll be happy with them even if no one ever breaks an ankle. Your plans don't have to be handicapped-accessible, but remember that there are no guarantees against accidents... and it's really miserable to be in a wheelchair but worse to be in one and not be able to use the bathroom. And you'll need some kind of a rule about rushing into the bathroom. I can visualize Himself in front of the sink, shaving... and junior-in-a-hurry whomps the door open. I hope himself uses an electric shaver, less blood that way. Okay, it's a compact plan. That's good. There is basically good thought in the traffic flow. Obviously there are painful compromises [always happens in compact plans], which I'm sure you have considered, such as not having a place to fold the clothes when they come out of the dryer. The doorway from car to pantry is close to the kitchen and that's good.... unless those are steps between, which would be very bad (think of holding two bags of groceries, juggling for the house key, and if you have a screen door, you'll need another hand to hold that open). 3-D plans are fun, but be careful to measure the real furniture that will be going into the real-life rooms. An inch here and two inches there doesn't sound like much, but it could mean not getting the table into the dining or maybe the table gets in but no one can sit down. OT, I've lived with crawlspaces. If you do a high-R insulate, have all pipes box-framed and use removable rigid foam on one side to permit access. Sigh. Guess who had to remove insulation to access a frozen pipe which occurred during a long blizzard. That was avoidable, so learn from my mistakes....See Moreneeding a push(and advice) on this small reno (pics)
Comments (19)kitchenredo, I had looked at the Ebony Star before, and I think it didn't do so well with my flooring. But, it's really pretty! plllog, yes..I like drama. In decorating, and in my life, lol. rmkitchen, love the fireplace. What a conversation piece, and how very special! And thank you for the well wishes for our son. And I have to agree 100% about the advances in medicine. What he's having done was a LOT harder to go about 15 yrs ago. Iris, my heart skipped a beat when I clicked on that link. I soooo want to do that. I wonder how hard it would be?? Dh looked at me funny, grinned and said "whatever you want honey" :) Gotta love that man, lol. He's quite handy. Is he THAT handy??? Gosh, I don't know. I wonder just how hard it'd be??? Cookie cutter house, will that walls fall down if he removes the cabinets? lol. I know that means fixing walls, repainting, etc. But, I don't care! I would love to move those things up! Maybe not even to the very top. Because they have moulding, and there's moulding at the ceiling already. I kind of hate to disturb all that. But, would it make a big enough difference to just raise them higher? And do the shelf under?? Which I LOVE!!!...See MoreDining room? Pantry? Library? Help! (pics)
Comments (29)Deb, one question that I haven't heard yet is, is your library-media room the main gathering/ tv watching in your home? It's a really lovely room (actually every room you've shown us is lovely). I'm so impressed with the gorgeous bookcases your DH built. I see that you have steps down to this room, which would mean that you'd be carrying platters and bowls of food, plates, glasses, etc, down those steps for every meal that you serve in there, as your new dining room. It's only two steps, but you need to seriously think about whether this would become a real irritant after a while, let alone a possible tripping danger. Unfortunately, having the steps would make it near to impossible to move the wall between the present dining room and library, to give you more space in the dining room. That would have been ideal . . . if it was possible. More questions and thoughts: ~do you have a family room or living room that you can move the tv into comfortably? ~ what do you and your DH actually need the most, a home office or a butler's pantry? ~ With both rooms having wide doorways that open into it, instead of actual doors that you can close off, will you be happy seeing a desk and other office things in full view from your kitchen (which is lovely, BTW)? Friends and family will be passing through it getting from your kitchen to the new dining room. ~ If you turn it into a butler's pantry, are you willing to set it up nicely enough so as not to detract from your kitchen or your new dining room? ~ another idea to consider is to just incorporate the present dining room into the kitchen with, perhaps, built-in cabs to house your nice serving pieces, china and crystal in glass-fronted cabs with closed cabs below for storing what ever you need. You could set up a seating area on that side, too, and/or a secretary desk and chair that you can close up when company arrives for a meal. Personally, I think that turning your present dining room into a sitting room, would be a wasted space, that probably wouldn't be used all that much. But, that's JMHO. Anyhoo, just some other things to think about. Lynn...See MoreNeed design help for a small reach in pantry - 32" wide X 36" deep
Comments (8)I had that pantry in my first house! I was young and poor and not particularly focused on the pantry (we never expected to stay in that house too long), so I did pretty much nothing ... but if I had that space again today, I'd do these things: - Yes to Elfa pull-out drawers on the lower portion. - You have a hinged door? Then consider the space on the back of that door. Again, Elfa. - Maybe a pull-out cart ... I'm imagining a 3-self metal Ikea cart ... to hold "like stuff". For example, you could have a baking cart to house flour, sugar, cookie cutters ... and it'd all pull out easily. - For smaller things, I'd looks for long, narrow plastic baskets for the upper shelves. You could group "like stuff" (for example, all your Kitchen Aid mixer accessories) together /bring down the baskets when you need them. - Lazy susans (from Bed, Bath, Beyond) for glass bottles. - If you're storing anything metal ... like BBQ tools, maybe ... in the pantry, consider attaching magnetic knife bars inside the pantry. Alternately, could you fit in a narrow pegboard towards the front of the pantry?...See Morecand1781
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7 years agobadgergal
7 years agoI have a small pantry cabinet with roll out shelves. The outside of the cabinet measures 18" wide and 24" deep and its 90 some inches tall. The cabinet face frame and the slide out rails reduce the interior width of the cabinet. My roll outs are actually only 13"x20" on the inside. They work fine for my 2 person household but it's not a lot of storage for a bigger family or if you keep a lot of stock on hand. Obviously if you go with two will have twice as much storage as I have.
I have five pullouts in the upper section and 2 in the lower section. I am vertically challenged and with the step stool I have, I cannot access the top pullout but my 6'2" can. Here are a couple shots of my pullouts.
cand1781 thanked badgergalH B
7 years agoThis is frighteningly messy but posting in the event it helps. 36" wide, was a coat closet. Clearly I am not limiting myself to the shelves. LOL. Good luck.
cand1781 thanked H Bcand1781
7 years ago
cluelessincolorado
7 years agoMy mother has these in her kitchen as an upper pantry with drawers underneath, I can't believe how much she fits in there!
http://www.rev-a-shelf.com/p-239-swing-out-complete-system-tall-pantry-accessories.aspx
H B
7 years agocand1781
7 years agoknitsewoften
7 years agomtnfever (9b AZ/HZ 11)
7 years agoIn a previous house I had a cabinet that became
more useful with rollout shelves. However, since the cabinet was framed,
then I lost the storage on the edges on both sides due to the rollouts.In my current/for sale house I have the luxury
of a walk-in pantry with deep shelves on one side (my appliance parking
structure) and a reach-in with swing-out shelves as cluelessincolorado
shows: maybe yours could be different, but mine swing together so closely
that it's difficult to reach between to get something at the back of the
shelves behind, and the depth of the swing-outs preclude many things from
fitting there (I use my quite old Tupperware fitting sidewise for sugar, flour
etc).In my new-to-me house I have a closet pantry
with U-shaped shelves and little spice-type shelves on the door itself. A
PO put in the door shelves. While I miss the sheer volume of the walk-in
and swing-out pantries, this house is half the size and less than a mile to a
grocery (yippee!) so I don't require as much storage either. The U-shape
shelves let me see everything and I put tall bottles in a crate.
This picture shows the PO's things.
hth
knitsewoften