Show me your pantry

[ashbash]

Our kitchen is renovated (from previous owner) but for some reason the pantry is janky and needs a revamp sooooo give me inspiration for some good shelving, layout, organization!

[pghtruelove]

I also need help with organization. Mine is a mess!

[erbear]

I wish I had one. I have a free standing one, two cabinets, and some bookshelves I use.

[ashbash]

pghtruelove, thats how my old one was and I used canisters and bins to help organize. I cant decide to do that again or use the shelves to make areas for different things

[ashbash]

Kinda like this


Or this


Im leaning toward option 1

[sabrinaml]

Jul 13, 2016 15:26:06 GMT -5 ashbash said:

Kinda like this


Or this


Im leaning toward option 1

I like 1, it looks more organized to me.

[turtle]

Here is mine. We converted an old closet to a pantry. 

[erbear]

I love #1 ashbash!

[3dimesdown]

Even if I had bins and labels and shit, my pantry would look like those pictures for like 3 hours before it was a disaster again.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Wish for a pantry all the time! Our cupboards are so small and crowded there's no way to organize, its just a matter of what fits where. Mess!

[turtle]

I like #1 too. I want to head towards that eventually. It would be much more organized. We did get wire pantry shelves from Lowe's and I think the fact they are see through helps me know what we have better than solid wood.

[ashbash]

The biggest things will be getting the weird gross cork off the wall, wtf is it even there? And the 70s wallpaper off the shelves.


Then I think Ill paint and go with #1! Ive put it out in the universe so I have to do it now

And yes that is a Costco sized bag of chocolate chips on the shelf

[kemdupuis]

Not super pretty, but it is organized and I know where everything is.

The top shelf is cereals/crackers. Middle two shelves are things for dinner, organized by type: sauces/broth, pastas/rices/mixes, canned goods, salad dressings, bbq sauces, etc. bottom shelf is snack things. Left bin is ours, right bin is all B's stuff. On the flor we have drinks, our grocery bags, and cat food
ETA: I have a separate lazy susan with all of our baking items.

[heartofglass]

Ours is messy too, but it only stays pretty for about a day if I clean it...

[pghtruelove]

budders I used to have the wire shelves as opposed to what I have now, I much more prefer the new style, I just have no idea how to organize it! Hopefully getting some storage bins and baskets will help!

[ashbash]

budders mine only issue with the pantry cabinet that we used to have was it was deep, so the good was it could hold a lot but con was things would get pushed back and forgotten about but bins might be a solution for that.

[blueskiessmiling]

Pretty basic over here too.
Top shelf: paper products, lunch boxes, H's protein stuff
Next down: H's candy stash, bagged snacks
Next: canned goods, boxed items (pasta, rice, etc..), DD's stuff
Next: a holy mess of baking stuff, cooking sprays/oils
Bottom: beverages that don't fit in the fridge, and DD also insists on her Cheerios being where she can reach them

I have to say, I much prefer these shallow, wide shelves to any deep shelving. It's much easier to keep inventory of what we have.

[blueskiessmiling]

Also, this is the pantry I told you guys I hide in to eat my snacks I don't want to share with DD. Definitely NOT a walk-in.

[heartofglass]

budders we had a separate pantry cabinet in our old house and it's a toss up. The top half was deep shelves and things got lost. The bottom half was pull out drawers which I loved because you could see everything.

[turtle]

budders, I would take a pantry cabinet in my kitchen over having wire shelves. I do like the wire shelves, but I also got shelves whose bars were very close together, so things don't fall over. I think that makes a difference. I do wish my food was closer to the kitchen though, hence wanting the pantry cabinet.

[musicfrk2002]

Jul 13, 2016 19:07:24 GMT -5 carrots said:

Jul 13, 2016 15:49:20 GMT -5 3dimesdown said:

Even if I had bins and labels and shit, my pantry would look like those pictures for like 3 hours before it was a disaster again.

Same. I can't even bring myself to take pictures of how mine looks now bc it's so bad.

+1

[sammyca]

This is my pantry. I have dreams of making it look like a Pinterest pantry but H is against the idea. He thinks I'll be too anal about keeping it perfect.
And + whatever to wanting a walk-in pantry. That is my dream.

[jillywilly]

I'll try to remember to take a picture of my pantry when I run home for lunch later, but it's pretty basic, wire shelving, foods in different states of disarray throughout.

budders, I would take the pantry cabinet over wire shelving. The biggest problem with wire shelving is that small things are forever falling through the cracks. I have a bunch of bins/organizers in my pantry, but I still always find a random granola bar that fell out of a box or something on the floor. One of my long-term goals in our next house will be to eventually replace the wire shelving that will come with our pantry with actual shelving.