Efficient Pantry Layout
Ashley Bowman
4 years ago
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Efficient pantry in 22-inch space?
Comments (8)My vote: Get a frameless cabinet (a diagram of the difference here) and here made for there, no matter what you do in other places in the kitchen; paint it as if it's wall, and give it a slab door, also painted to look like wall. Make the cabinet go all the way to the ceiling. You can even skip the toekick on that cabinet if you want (a local unfinished-furniture place can make this for you if nec.--it is essentially a bookcase with doors, just leave off the plinth on the bottom. The flat wood door(s) can go ALL the way up, pretending to be wall. You might want a fixed shelf halfway up--just at eyebrow height, maybe--to stabilize it; you might also want the door to break halfway up so you don't have a weirdly overtall door. Pullouts will be crucial, w/ that 30" depth. And I agree w/ you on how important it is to have them be adjustable once they're in. The frameless cabinet is crucial to that. Here's the best way to get them adjustable. use those slotted shelf standards they use in bookcases, and buy these clips that you can attach drawer slides to Then get either drawer boxes (from some place like www.maplecraftusa.com or TapeEase.com or many other places you can find online; I personally think dovetail is overkill, and would try to find some place that will use a rabbet or dado joint) or pullouts (from some place like www.shelvesthatslide.com which will make them to the size you need) to be your pullouts. You might be able to find a local woodworker who will make the drawer boxes for you, or the pullout shelves. You could even make pullout shelves out of 3/4" plywood w/ lattice nailed and glued to the sides as rims. You can get tallish drawer boxes to hold a lot; ShelvesThatSlide.com has a deep pullout w/ a slanted side--taller toward the back, to keep stuff from falling out; shorter toward the front, so you can see in. I did once buy a SINGLE drawer slide for Elfa baskets--you could mount them on the cabinet wall, or under a shelf. But my vote would be, if you can swing the...See MorePantry cabinet, which is most efficient?
Comments (18)marti8a: they are Blum brand, and are called Tandembox. Blum also makes a similar product for Ikea (called Rationell), so you might look into that (there is an ikeafans website much like this one that could probably help you figure out if they would work for your framed cabinets). My cabinets are frameless. I remember my cabinet maker saying that he bought the components for the rollouts (the metal front and sides, slides, etc) and then cut the metal front to fit my cabinet and put them together with the gray corner pieces. The bottom and the back is melamine (1/2 or 5/8 inch). The ikea looks really similar and economical. $24 for a 24 inch wide or $22 for the 21 inch wide, plus you'd need a drawer front. The 24 inch drawer front is $12, there isn't a 21 inch wide drawer front, but maybe you could cut the 24 inch down? These prices include the fully extending drawer slides. I think that there are also products at ikea that are not shown online, so there may be more size options and components to build your own drawers. Here is a link that might be useful: Ikea rational fully extending drawer...See MoreBest and most efficient kitchen layout
Comments (2)Knight...thank you L seems to be the most popular. I hate corners tho, so I'd like to avoid that, if possible. The house is not even designed yet. But I'm thinking way ahead, as the kitchen is so important....See MoreBest and most efficient kitchen layout
Comments (16)Regarding layout - as others have said, what's best will depend on your home's layout, the Kitchen's location with regards to the rest of the house and the outside, and the Kitchen's measurements. I like both a "U" (what I have now and love!) and an "L" with an island, depending on the situation. I will say that ideally I would have: Prep Zone either: Directly across from the range/cooktop with a prep sink (not cleanup sink) and at least 42" of workspace -or- Next to the range/cooktop along the same counter run with 42" to 48" of workspace b/w them Actually, I think I'd like both so more than one person can work in the Kitchen at one time!! Cleanup Zone and dish storage completelyseparate from both the Prep and Cooking Zones. The Prep Zone in the best location (view, visitors, etc.) b/c the vast majority of time in the Kitchen is spent prepping. No zone-crossing - meaning you don't have to cross through other zones when going to/from your work zone and the refrigerator or pantry. For example, I would rather not have to cross through the Cleanup Zone (and dodging an open DW door) to go to/from the refrigerator or pantry and the Prep and Cooking Zones. (Remember, this is what I consider "ideal".) A protected Cooking Zone, and to some extent, Prep Zone. Protected meaning these zones are protected from non-Kitchen traffic as well as from non-cooking and non-prepping Kitchen work. Two-bin trash pullout (trash + recycling) next to the prep sink and near the range/cooktop. If room, a trash pullout (one or two bin) next to the cleanup sink; if no room, then under the cleanup sink. Far more trash and recyclables are generated while prepping and cooking than cleaning up, and for a much longer extended period of time. [BTW...the biggest regret in my Kitchen is that I put the trash pullout in the Cleanup Zone, not the Prep Zone. I didn't realize how much more it's used when prepping and cooking until I started using my new Kitchen! Now, I have to traipse across a 6' aisle to get to the trash pullout from my Prep and Cooking Zones - often dripping all the way!] Refrigerator next to the Prep and Cooking Zones but on the periphery so outsiders can get a snack, get condiments for the dinner table, or put away groceries without getting in the way of someone prepping and/or cooking. MW also on the periphery but next to the Prep and Cooking Zones for similar reasons. For a MW, I would prefer either a drawer (which I have now and love) or in an alcove a bit above counter height with landing space for the MW next to it on the right side (the side that doesn't have a hinge). At least one wall oven that's installed so the door opens above my knees. . [Remember, this is my ideal, not necessarily anyone else's!]...See Morecevamal
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