I have always loved the walk in pantry. I have an entire folder of pantry photos saved to my computer as inspiration. So if this one belongs to you let me know. I love it.

My entire adult life I have lived places with a walk-in pantry. When I moved into this house the walk in pantry was where the refrigerator was located and a crazy inefficient cabinet. It was awkward. Who wants to walk into a pantry to get to the refrigerator?

The day I moved in and was unpacking I wandered around the kitchen wondering where to put the cereal and canned goods. Do people put these things in their kitchen cabinets? Where do you put your potatoes?

And more importantly why did the pantry fall out of favor with home builders and kitchen designers? It is so much less expensive then comparable storage you could get in cabinets. And I know, having just sold my arm to buy cabinets.

Now that we have gutted and rebuilt we have moved the refrigerator out of the pantry. And I have begun to obsessively redesign the pantry. With my graph paper. Because I am obsessive about everything. Even drawing baskets to scale. It gives me something to do during the long exhaustive process of renovation.

As of right now my design is simple. Beadboard on the walls, open wooden shelves, some baskets for things that need to basket-ized. Is that a word? It should be. I sort of envision it to be a modern interpretation of the old shelf lined pull chain light light fixture pantries that our grandmother’s had.

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