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    Planning a Walk-In Pantry

    April 24, 2015
    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter

    Happy Friday, everyone! Today is a weird day. Normally on the weekends, the fiancé and I have a plan: whether it’s just lounging on the couch watching How I Met Your Mother or going out for a night on the town. But tonight he is busy helping a friend move, so the girls and I are home all alone. Naturally I need something to keep my busy, so pantry-planning is full swing.

    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    Cuddling companion #1: Spencer (2 years old)
    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    Cuddling companion #2: Georgia (9 months old)

    In my opinion, the pantry is one of the most important rooms in the house. Having a beautifully organized pantry just gives me a sense of calm – like even if the rest of the house is in disarray, at least I will be able to cook a delicious meal and find all of my ingredients because they are in their proper places. And while we have a way to go before our whole basement will be finished (right now we are a couple of weeks in, but more on that later!), I am getting all of my plans set for the pantry!

    It is never too early to be able to start planning for future home improvement projects, after all. In the meantime, here are some of my inspiration photos that I am working off of in terms of design:

    Our Home: The Pantry | The Charming Detroiter
    Photo from The Vintage Wren.
    Our Home: The Pantry | The Charming Detroiter
    Photo from Bright, Bold, & Beautiful.
    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    Photo from Houzz.

    And this is the current state of our pantry:

    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    View of the pantry door from the staircase to first floor.
    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    View from the basement living space area.
    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    Here you can better see the size that the finished pantry will be.

    For the shelves themselves, our building guide is from Saw Dust Girl. I researched quite a lot of built-in shelf tutorials on the internet, and so many of them left me without an answer to the question: will these shelves hold the weight of all of our pantry items? Saw Dust Girl is the DIY tutorial we finally settled on because after taking a look around her website, she really seems to know her stuff when it comes to home construction and projects (plus the tutorial states that these shelves will be enough to hold the weight. Yay!).

    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    Photo from The Sawdust Girl.

    So far I am learning that this is going to be a pretty large DIY project, larger than anything the fiancé and I have done on our own before! However, I have full confidence in his carpentry skills (as well as the stockpile of tools he has recently amassed at home improvement stores, garage sales, and estate sales all over town).

    Right now, our plans basically consist of this:

    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    A Friday night spent drawing up building plans and a materials list!

    Some drawings and a materials list. It’s definitely a start! And, of course, I have all kinds of ideas on how to spruce up the pantry a bit! Here are some ideas I’ve been bouncing around my head:

    Home Tour: Walk-In Pantry Planning | The Charming Detroiter
    1. The Container Store (1, 2). 2. Wayfair. 3. The Container Store. 4. Etsy.

    We have a host of items on the “Basement To Do List”, but the pantry right now is scheduled to be completed prior to finishing all of the paint jobs we have (ceiling, and walls, and floors, oh my!) Check back soon to see our pantry progress! I would also love to know your thoughts on these plans, so please comment below!

    Please click here to see the rest of our home tour, and click below for the updates on our pantry!

    • Our Home: An Update on Our DIY Walk-In Pantry
    • Our Home: The Finished DIY Basement Pantry

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    1. Kerry F says

      June 30, 2021 at 7:13 am

      If getting items into the back corner of a pantry with a 45 degree door is awkward, getting into the back corner of a rectangular pantry is going to be even worse. The only benefit I can see is that a rectangular pantry could make use of a pocket door that doesn’t swing out into the kitchen.
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    2. lisa says

      January 15, 2021 at 7:12 am

      Your house looks gorgeous, amazing, beautiful. The idea that you discuss above for making floating shelves is amazing. I really like this. I definitely adopted this.Retaining Walls

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    3. PFS Aggregates says

      September 2, 2020 at 3:53 pm

      My choice is always watching How I Met Your Mother, haha 🙂

      Reply
    4. Karen says

      August 30, 2020 at 11:38 am

      Your pantry is fabulous. I just came across your website via Pinterest and was curious as to the dimensions of the pantry?

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    5. Macs says

      September 14, 2017 at 6:44 am

      I definitely agree that one of the most important and beautiful part of the house to be improved is the pantry. This is were we prepare food. So it should be neatly and nicely built. And everything in there must be organized. Thank you for sharing.

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    1. An Update on Our DIY Walk-In Pantry - The Charming Detroiter says:
      June 14, 2018 at 10:37 am

      […] out our planning post for the pantry here, or check out the finished product […]

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