Pantry Porn - Sniper style!

[Sniper-T]

I've made reference a couple times about the renovations that I've been doing to my pantry. I thought I'd throw up a few pics for your perusal. I only took a few prior to the start, and then again at completion, as I didn't want to have the camera out in the drywall dust.

I use the term 'Pantry' with a grain of salt. The only thing that makes it a Pantry, is the pile of food that is in there. lol

My house is an open concept design, so there aren't too many rooms, nor closets etc, so I need to make use of all the space I can. My pantry is basically the space under my stairs. which we initially used for brooms/mops/vaccuum, etc. It was just a jumbled mess, That things kept getting shoved into. The access to my crawlspace is in there too, so I have to keep a goodly chunk of floor space open in case I need to get down to my furnace or something.

This reno has been a work in progress, with additional things added as needed. The first thing I did was put up a couple shelves on the right side. Which almost immediately became inundated with stuff, and have looked basically like this for the last 3 years:



Since that didn't really do much for enticing my wife into prepping and stocking MORE stuff, I added more shelves. This time I decided to utilive the back of the stair risers themselves. screwed in some angle brackets and put up a series of shelves:



And that left me with the right wall, where I just put up some hooks for the mops etal, and a little bookshelf which was crammed full of stuff too. Note that the wall behind the mess is drywall, and there is only a few inches of room available for the most part because of the hatch in the floor. So I couldn't put shelves on that side even though I wanted to:



Or... could I...

Taking a page from a bookshelf I built upstairs, I ripped the drywall off that right wall, so I had exposed studs and the back of the drywall that was my living room wall. I was stuck with a couple of outlets in the way, as I didn't want to punch new holes in the living room wall, and then have to patch and repaint in there.

So I picked up a bunch of 12" shelves, and ripped them down to just under 6" each, which was the biggest I could go without interfering. I then notched them to fit around the studs, and secure them with angle brackets:



The studs actually came in handy, and act as natural dividers for different types of food. This allowed me enough room to empty out my big kitchen cabinet, and dedicate a few shelves in there to drygoods such as pasta and rice.

Here's a shot of it as it sits now, with the exception of the vaccuum that got added in in the back:

[GunnerMax]

you need more beer....

otherwise, what an awesome job man!

[Sniper-T]

Here is the right wall again, I currently have the hooks on there so all the brooms etc can hang by the door.. but I am eyeballing that drywall on that side now too, particularly up closer to the front, where that existing shelf is. That is a 6" wall on this side, So Countersunk, I could easily put a 12" set of shelves in there, and utilize that space a bit better too. Or... If I can find a new place to keep the brooms and mops, I could shelve that whole side:



I don't have any 'before' shots, but here is the kitchen cabinet as well:


The Pasta Shelf, with the asian noodles on the right side, in layers to the back. as I empty the boxes, I slide another one foreward, grab one from LTS put it in the back, and but one (or two) to replace the one in LTS.



Below that is the rice/soup shelf, set up the same way. finish a box, slide a new one foreward and replenish from LTS, then replace LTS. All of the Long and short grains are currently in bags near the back, but I think I'm going to start using 2 liter bottles for that:



My wife's baking Shelf, I gave it a cursory cleaning and sorting. But It needs additional attention:

[Sniper-T]

And since I'm at it, my bulk spices just get tucked into the back of a seldom used cupboard, to be pulled out as needed:



My Lazy susan contains the bulk of my spices(herbs):





And a drawer right beside the stove holds my favourite and most commonly used day to day spices:

[Evolver]

Great job on utilizing all the space in the room. BTW I see the Franks Hot sauce... When you having us over for chicken wings?

[Sniper-T]

hmmm... now that's an idea. Was thinking about doing some franks ribs, but maybe I'll do chicken instead. Can you be here for 5:00 tonight?

And the Liquor cabinet isn't pictured, and I don't tend to drink a lot of beer in the winter, so I just keep some in the fridge.

In the summer though, I have a full sized pepsi machine in the garage that'll hold 4 cases of bottled water, 8 doz. Dr. Pepper. 8 doz. Pepsi and 32 dozen beer

[work in progress]

Holy Mother - look at all the spices! That's amazing! Think about all the space you could reclaim on that lazy Susan if you had a few risers to stack them on. But seriously - great job and nice handy work. Now all I can think of is crab dip........

[Evolver]

Can't make it tonight my Tellaporter is acting up... Theres no telling where we would end up or what we would look like when we did, but thank you for the offer.

[Sniper-T]

Dont count yourselves out yet Evolver, I've got my best man working on the problem!

[bacpacker]

Franks seems to pop up everywhere. We just had quesadilla's from a roast with a generous amount of Franks. We also had Chili over the weekend loaded up with it.

Sniper that is some nice, well thought out work in the closet. You did good working around what you had to. Nice use of space.