I’m looking into some kitchen pantry ideas for my kitchen to make more room for pots and pans, storage containers, food, and big boy items like a 12 to 24 roll of paper towels and some of the midsize appliances like the crock pot. Then, with moving these items to a pantry, it would free up room in my cabinets to better organize the dishes, and glassware.
We have a built-in buffet that I don’t like. It is hard to organize, is old-fashioned, and this is where I want to put a kitchen pantry. What I really want to do is tear it open and bump the area out a bit into the garage and make a mudroom/pantry combination. I don’t think we are ready to make that much of a change, so I am looking at big and small kitchen pantry ideas.
We could buy a swing out unit or two of them. This kitchen pantry is by Lowe’s. Tim is handy and could install it himself. Houzz shows it to be 57″ high and costs $600.00. My existing space where the buffet is located could fit a few of these swing out units
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Martha Stewart presents this organizational idea. I definitely need to keep slats on my radar of design ideas.
Ideally, a walk-in type kitchen pantry would be big time help. The shelving looks like it would be simple to build and would provide oodles of storage. It has a place for cookbooks, baskets, glassware, dishes, food, and one of my needs the paper towels.
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This walk-in kitchen pantry has it all. Room to store the cookie sheets and is a good blueprint for making our own walk-in kitchen pantry.
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I like the look of this kitchen pantry with the shelf, pull out drawers underneath the shelf, and baskets under the drawers.
Here are shelves easily bought at Lowe’s or Home Depot made beautiful by the paint color on the walls. I could live with a kitchen pantry design like this. Now that I have looked at kitchen pantries and posted it here, I think it will help to put a kitchen pantry on Tim’s radar too.
Today I am happy because Tim made dinner in the crockpot and I am free as a bird to blog my day away.
It is 4 hours and 30 minutes until dinner is ready and 18 minutes until my reminder to do an errand. It is nice to have dinner ready to go. I always appreciate when someone else makes dinner, especially when it is my husband.
I only like open shelving in theory. Last year, we tore out the open shelves in our pantry/laundry/mud room. (That makes it sound big, but it’s a small room between the kitchen and garage.) I bought an armoire/closet from IKEA to replace both the pantry shelves and the ridiculously small and ill placed closet we removed. The IKEA closet holds more than both of those did combined, and everything is behind sliding doors. I love how clean that space now stays.
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I am checking out IKEA closets now and keeping this idea as a possible solution! Great tip, thanks Ginger.
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Mine is super tiny and I would love to turn the laundry room off my kitchen that is also the entrance from the garage to the house into a pantry. Then move the laundry to our basement.
I used my crock pot today. Love it when dinner is all taken care leaving some free time to do whatever I want to do.
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Here’s to you and me Jenny that we get a pantry this year!
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