do you have a pantry in your house?

[Dancing Fire]

wish we had one...got junks all over the place.

 

[packrat]

We do not. Our house sucks. Well, we''ve been making it less sucky-we (and by we, I mean JD and my dad) added a counter along a bare wall in the dining area of the kitchen and more cupboards. JD''s building a pantry in the basement this winter, and we''re planning on adding a couple ready made pantries to the kitchen too. I love having tons of storage and everything OFF my counters!

DF, I bet you''ve got places in your house you could add storage!

 

[E B]

We do, but it''s not walk-in. I''d looove a walk-in pantry.

 

[Camille]

Yep, bad news.....more junk to clean.

 

[luckystar112]

Our pantry was basically just a closet. You opened the door to shelves.
We just turned it into a walk-in pantry though. We lucked out because our garage (which has a built-in storage area) was on the other side of the wall. We tore down the wall between the pantry closet and the storage space and then built a NEW wall. So now our garage is a perfect square and our pantry is a walk-in. No idea if I did a good job illustrating that. haha.

 

[Octavia]

No.

The house I grew up in has one, and I still miss it.

 

[D&T]

I did in our last three homes, but not this one! I miss it!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I LOVE our walk-in pantry. It keeps all the food in one place also has room to store extra paper products, cleaning stuff, serving pieces etc. I even keep my cookbooks in there.

 

[somethingshiny]

I have the closet type pantry which has room for lots of food, cookbooks, tools, and a few other things. But I have a free standing pantry in the basement too because of my bulk buying. I lived in one house without a pantry and I had to use tons of cabinets to store all the food.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/8/2009 7:15:48 PM
Author: packrat
We do not. Our house sucks. Well, we''ve been making it less sucky-we (and by we, I mean JD and my dad) added a counter along a bare wall in the dining area of the kitchen and more cupboards. JD''s building a pantry in the basement this winter, and we''re planning on adding a couple ready made pantries to the kitchen too. I love having tons of storage and everything OFF my counters!

DF, I bet you''ve got places in your house you could add storage!

we do have a 3 car garage but it gets too hot in the summer for storing canned foods.

 

[lyra]

We had a built-in desk in our kitchen that we ripped out and build a closet around. We installed shelves, a door and lighting and voila a pantry! I don''t know what we''d do without one. It''s where we store most of our dry goods.

 

[Clio]

We do, but I wish it were bigger and either shallower or walk-in. The shelves are too deep, and things tend to get pushed toward the back.

 

[pennquaker09]

Yes, we do. However, I want a Butler''s Pantry so bad. It''s on the must have list for the next house.

 

[MustangGal]

We have a tiny one, the size of most linnen closets. It holds enough, but a walk-in would be nice!

 

[Haven]

I''ve never heard of a house without a pantry! I think they''re standard here in Illinois, we looked at over 70 homes when we were house hunting and they all had one.

Ours is a bit too deep for my liking, I''m constantly digging into the back to take inventory so I don''t overbuy things.

Penn--I''m with you on the butler''s pantry! Were planning on adding on to the back of our house in the next several years, and a butler''s pantry is already in the design. They are so nice for entertaining.

 

[lucyandroger]

The house we''re buying has 2 but neither are walk-in. Our apartment doesn''t have one so we converted our coat closet into a pantry with shelves from the Container Store...otherwise I don''t know where we''d be able to store food...

 

[sparklyheart]

I have the tiniest looking pantry but it''s never been a problem. It''s only about 4ft tall by 2 ft wide with drawers that pull out. It''s sooo deep that the drawers hold a ton of stuff. I''ve never seen anything like it but it''s not too bad!

 

[MichelleCarmen]

We have a walk-in one, but it''s situated under the stairs, so it slants as it extends back so the sizing of each shelf is different.

It''s convenient, though, as it can fit all our food, paper towels, small coolers, flats of water. . .yeah, it''s nice to have.

 

[elrohwen]

We do. It''s really like a narrow broom closet with shelves, thus making it a pantry. It doesn''t hold as much as I''d like, so we end up putting most of our canned/boxed goods on shelves in the basement for storage, then we bring up only what''s open.

 

[radiantquest]

When I was growing up we had a walk in pantry and now my husband and I have a pantry, but it isn''t a walk in. I love it though. It is an already built thing. It looks just like our cabinets up top and has two doors at the bottom. When you open the top there are two shelves at the top and a big shelf at the bottom that slides out. The bottom opens like a double door fridge and has shelves in the doors for spices or whatever and there are these tall things that are on hinges that swing out and then behind them there are more shelves. It holds so much stuff and matches our kitchen cabinets perfectly. I really like it. We are thinking of moving to a bigger house and I want to take it with us, but hubby says that it stays with the house. Hopefully we can get another one.

 

[HollyS]

A nice big one. And tons of deep cabinets. It was a major selling point in buying our new house. It may not be my dream kitchen - yet - but it is not tiny, cramped, or lacking in storage, Hallelujah!

 

[zoebartlett]

The condo that we own but rent out doesn''t have a pantry. We''ve had to cram all of our food and everything else into the cabinets. The condo we''re living in now has a pantry but it''s not walk-in. It IS deep though, which is great.

 

[butterfly 17]

We have a closet pantry in the kitchen and another closet pantry right off the bathroom on the first floor.

We also added storage to the garage, which we don''t use except to store junk and stuff, and put stuff there.

I would love to get a deep freezer to store all those frozen things I buy from Costco. I neve have enough room in my fridge...

 

[JSM]

Date: 9/9/2009 12:50:54 PM
Author: Haven
I''ve never heard of a house without a pantry! I think they''re standard here in Illinois, we looked at over 70 homes when we were house hunting and they all had one.

They are definitely common around there, but neither my parents or grandparents ever had one! My aunts and uncles in the Chicago-land area sometimes do, though!

We don''t have one in our apartment (not in Illinois), and I really wish we did! Our food is stuffed in a cabinet, filled to the brim. I''m afraid to open it less something falls on my head! The good thing about less space is, of course, less for me to clean.

 

[atroop711]

NO...city apts are small and hardly any storage space. I wish I had the walk in pantry my sis has.

 

[musey]

I don''t even have drawers in my kitchen.

 

[pennquaker09]

Date: 9/11/2009 4:55:38 PM
Author: musey
I don''t even have drawers in my kitchen.

How on earth do you manage?

 

[musey]

Date: 9/11/2009 7:27:35 PM
Author: pennquaker09

Date: 9/11/2009 4:55:38 PM
Author: musey
I don't even have drawers in my kitchen.

How on earth do you manage?

We had things on racks in the cupboards, the normal drawer items anyway, for a long time.

Finally we caved and bought a free-standing cabinet unit that's half drawers. Life is so much better now. No idea what we're gonna do with it when we move, though [:eyeroll:]

I'm so sick of apartment life.

 

[Italiahaircolor]

Date: 9/9/2009 12:50:54 PM
Author: Haven
I''ve never heard of a house without a pantry! I think they''re standard here in Illinois, we looked at over 70 homes when we were house hunting and they all had one.

Ours is a bit too deep for my liking, I''m constantly digging into the back to take inventory so I don''t overbuy things.

Penn--I''m with you on the butler''s pantry! Were planning on adding on to the back of our house in the next several years, and a butler''s pantry is already in the design. They are so nice for entertaining.

+1.

 

[musey]

Date: 9/11/2009 8:44:48 PM
Author: Italiahaircolor

Date: 9/9/2009 12:50:54 PM
Author: Haven
I've never heard of a house without a pantry! I think they're standard here in Illinois, we looked at over 70 homes when we were house hunting and they all had one.

Ours is a bit too deep for my liking, I'm constantly digging into the back to take inventory so I don't overbuy things.

Penn--I'm with you on the butler's pantry! Were planning on adding on to the back of our house in the next several years, and a butler's pantry is already in the design. They are so nice for entertaining.

+1.

I grew up in Illinois, and we didn't have a pantry in our house. It's a 100+ year old house, though... but I don't remember any of my friends' houses having them either. Again, mostly older houses, but most of them not more than 50 years old. Maybe era has something to do with it?

My parents ended up converting the basement area under the kitchen into an obscenely large pantry

they could survive a nuclear holocaust with the food in there.