Working on the pantry
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I now have 2 pantries. One is a small snacks and extras pantry. The other is a step in pantry, bigger, for food and other things. I have been working on the big one. It is in progress. I have little chalk board signs to hang on the bins to know what is in them. I have yet to get them put on. My husband did an awesome job installing the shelves which he cut to fit and put up the brackets for them. He has a light to install that will be motion activated.
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Comments (2)I have 4 kids. I have a large 5X8 walk-in pantry. it is organized. it is not pretty. keep things in their original packaging when it works for you. sometimes it doesn't, then find large enough containers that you aren't constantly refilling. your shelves can probably be just 10 inches deep. Mine are 12. there are only a few spots that I actually use all 12 inches. I posted pics of my pantry a few weeks ago. perhaps seeing it "in action" will help you brainstorm what works for you. I am happy to answer any questions about how it is organized etc.... here it goes... hth it works quite well, for the most part. not a fan of when dh "restocks" his beer - he just dumps it on the floor and then I have to get rid of the empty boxes etc. you might notice baskets/bins... they keep like things together. often needed things are easy access. the cart is a great help and moves around. the top shelf has plenty of room for the BJ's/Sam's size cereal boxes. can't remember if it shows up in the picture or not. the left side has wire organizers, giving me a "double" shelf for canned goods. yes, I do have a pasta/rice section... a canned goods section, a rarely used appliance section, cookbooks, seasonings, pototaoes/onions/garlic, baking section, snack section, kids' lunchbag/water bottle section, cereal.... tea stuff... you name it, it holds it. behind the door I have cleaning stuff, hung against the wall. my big question, which I go back and forth on every day, is whether or not I am going to forfeit some of this space when we remodel. My kitchen is **almost** big enough to do what I want with it... if I sacrificed 12 inches of the pantry's width, it would help immensely with the kitchen. And then I walk back in and gaze lovingly at my pantry and realize IT is the REASON we bought this house which needed so many repairs 2 years ago. I have a feeling I will wrestle with this question until the day I demolish the current kitchen....See Moresmall WI pantry help needed
Comments (11)When everything is perfect, a person has less than 24" width to walk in or out of a little bathroom that has a 24" door. It's not practical for two people when one wants to leave while the other is entering. A 24" door is 24" all by itself when uninstalled. When the door is installed and used (opened), it often leaves about 22" of width of passing space. This is because of the door's other dimensions, and the hinges, and the doorframe. A person can fit sideways into a small opening. My writing this out is not a recommendation to install a truly puny door. But it is a recommendation to line all the walls with shelves all around. A pocket door slides away and has no other elements like hinges or parts of the frame that protrude or impede. in your case you have enough wall of the right shape to let you install a pocket door, which slides inside the wall structure. A pocket door could be far far less than 24" width and still be fine for this cupboard. What could also work is a single door of the kind that they sell as sliding closet doors / bypass doors. They can be ordered to any size. Also, f.y.i. this kind of miniscule opening can be screened with hanging beads or fabric and this simplifies even more the door-open-close dilemma. The key is to have a visual screen. Conclusion: yes you can step into an opening that is astronomically less width than 24" (or 22" net effective workable space) yes you can reduce the opening of a hinged door down to 18" or 16" net. yes you have other options than a hinged door. To see how little space you need to slip through an opening, partially open any door and do a twostep through the partial opening. Measure the space you used. To see a much larger image, I clicked on your photo....See More- 9 years ago
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