Pantry Dreams

I miss having a pantry and lots of kitchen storage.

If I could build my dream kitchen here at the farm I think I would choose any one of these wonderful pantries. Imagine having an actual ROOM as a pantry!

In my last post I had a link to a kitchen renovation we did a few years ago when we lived in the city. When I drew the plans up for the new kitchen I made sure there was TONS of storage as we were coming from a tiny kitchen...and I mean TINY.

The only room for a pantry was to incorperate the fridge into a wall of cupboards which included a slide out pantry on each side of the fridge...a nice deep cupboard above the fridge a tall skinny pantry that could also be used as a broom closet if you took the shelves out and a coffee bar with cupboards above and below a small counter. 

The rest of the kitchen had some pretty ingenious cupboards that ended up giving us even more space than we needed. I think had we stayed in the house we would have filled those spaces eventually.

Here are a few pictures of the storage features from our previous renovation.

On the other side of the farthest slide out there was a pantry/broom closet that was stepped back like the coffee bar. There were also corner cupboards at the end of the clipped counters.

This was the most unique cabinet I had ever seen. This was in a corner that was too cramped to put in a lazy susan. those two drawers slid out from the left all the way back to the wall behind the sink. Once they were slid back in place the rounded shelf swun around into that space so the door could shut.

I REALLY loved this spice cabinet right near the stove.

This cupboard was perfect for us because I had some very large items that wouldn't fit on a lazy suzan. In the area to the right which you can't see you were able to put very tall items.

This was my favorite cupboard. It fit all my everyday pots and pans...even large ones! And above it do you see the drawer with two handles? It was actually one large drawer that was big enough to fit all my cutlery and carving knives can openers and lots of other handy items. And everything was organized!

As you can see I was already using this room before we were done the kitchen renovation and we were just starting on the dining room. I was VERY grateful to finally have an actual kitchen to cook in!

My pantry cupboard here at the farm

A little more pantry space from a 'dead' corner

These shelves weren't there before. I'm grateful to have them.

Now here at the farmhouse I may not have that dream kitchen to work in....but what I have serves the purpose with character and charm. With a little more work and creativity it will be the perfect kitchen....FOR ME.