Could I please move in to your pantry?

Absolutely love it-Just clipped it...

You could give Martha a run for her money with that cleanliness and organization-it must make prep work a breeze.

Good for you, enjoy it!

You've got good reason to be happy about that pantry. Talk about a place for everything and everything in its place. You got it! My own pantry -- which is nowhere near done and will only be about 1/3rd the size of yours (sigh)-- is close that same color. It's a delight just to open the door, is it not? Love your Chambers stove!

you lucky lucky girl... that is fabulous. I see Victorian but with a dash of mid century modern... just love it.

I noticed you have Campari on your shelf. DH has one of these every now and again... the only person I know who drinks the stuff!

How lucky are you?! I am SO jealous of your pantry. I especially like the "top shelf".

Barb

Can I hire you to help me organize mine??? I can see why it makes you happy. I love the cheery color and everything in it's perfect spot.

Really really nice. As another one who has a Victorian I can appreciate what you are doing. You are so lucky to have such a nice area. Beautiful job of organizing. You could teach others :) Caroline

Yes, it's fabulous. And you should send a pic to Martha to be featured in her magazine! I can just see it, an article simply entitled "Pantries 101" or something like that!

BTW, what is that little green thing on the second shelf, between the flared white bowl and the green stock pot? I am trying to figure it out, and am stumped, but it sure looks cute!

Nice touch with the two electrical outlets. Lots of convenience there. Just curious, are you thinking of putting your microwave in there too? If not, where would it go, since I'd be sorry to see your gorgeous to-die-for Chambers stove next to some ol' microwave! Just wondering...thanks for sharing!

My last house had a pantry similar to yours. Now I know what to do with it! I love the buttery color and the spices neatly arranged in easy to fill jars. Happy, happy, happy.

Riches! Treasure! Fine organization! Readiness! Security! Luscious meals-to-be! And, it's very pretty. No wonder you're happy to open that door. Your pantry belongs in several magazines.

I'm SOOOOO Jealous! Love it- thanks for showing it off!

I just love your pantry! It looks like it should fit in with the rest of your house. I also love your Chambers, especially the collor. We have one (Chambers Imperial) that is white and black that our kitchen has been designed around. Any pics of the rest of your kitchen??

I wish I had any kind of pantry. Yours is awesome.

Gorgeous and I hope there is no door on it - you have to show it off to everyone who enters your kitchen.

I love the organization - it is something I aspire to on a daily basis.

Oh my, it is wonderful! So bright and alive, it makes me want to cook!!!

Rexem, how did you get your photos to come out so clear? Did you upload them to an online site like Photobucket?

Looks great! Mine is very similar. I also used the same Anchor Hocking containers you did along with some square glass with metal lids I already had. I LOVE being able to see everything! We also did a table/counter for the microwave and toaster. Great place to set down bags while unloading also. My table was built to resemble a garden work table by our trim carpenter. Having a special fixture makes the pantry seem more like a room, doesn't it?

I know you are going to enjoy your pantry for many years!

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Love the pantry! That amount of real estate in enviable, and you've made it so personal and fun.

I have about ten of those cracker jars I bought at Target because I loved their vintage look. But they are not airtight -- I have even had sugar go bad in them! The flour and dry goods I stored in them all take on a funny off smell. So now I am about to get rid of them, or use them for craft items. Rexem, I am wondering if you have experienced that at all.

A great example of making eclectic work. Cool stuff, nicely put together. And the stove's a beaut!

I just put everything into glass jars this fall, as I moved everything out of my kitchen before it was demolished. I'm completely addicted now. I can see you are too!

Is the green thing one end of a clothesline? That would be an excellent, and traditional, pantry addition.

OMG. I love that pantry.....I love your chrome canisters. I remember my mom having them when I was a kid. They were always so shinny, I would love looking at myself in them. I also really like your spice jars. Very Very nice, and yes you should submit a pic to Martha.

I think I need to get off my a__ and start doing some organizing. You did a wonderful job. Wish I had put in a separate pantry. I have three 36" floor to ceiling cabnets and two other cabnets for appliances but your's is so much easier to get to.

Question?????? I love your spices. Do you get new ones every year as they suggest? What do you do if you buy a large container of something? I seem to buy some new type of spice evry few weeks so I'd probably run out of jars.

Thanks so much for sharing your pantry with us.

Unbelievable!!!! I too wish I had a pantry like that, but there's no spot for it. I agree that you should keep the door off. Just beautiful....Love the table!!

just a thought...what a perfect place to use a vintage screen door . You would have a beautiful view and it would look so charming, at least I think so.

Also as to the jars...you might be able to put a thin rubber ring inside to tighten the screw on or else use foil inside the lid to make it more secure. I have found that really works. c

Wonderful space, great organizing. I love having a walk in pantry as well.
I agree with some of the others about the door. Too pretty to hide for sure.
Enjoy !!

OMG! Absolutely beautiful and organized! That would make me happy too!

Do you mind if I ask dimensions and also the depth of your shelves?

Thanks!!

This looks great. I'm working on my pantry right now, and I hope it comes close to yours. Nice work.

Very nice...it's a great space! I wish I had that much pantry space!

You're right...it is very cheerful!

Great job!

Gee whiz rex.....are you trying to make us all jealous? Well, you're succeeding. Very nice!!

Thanks for all the compliments.

There is no door on the pantry - it is right off the dinette area. Here's a picture. You can see the original tin ceiling which still needs a little work. I thought about a vintage screen but it may just block the view. You can see the pantry all the way from the living room.
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I don't really buy my spices in bulk, and I made sure these jars fit more than a standard spice jar. But occasionally I will have extra which goes in a vintage bail jar. I now have a basement full of jars of all types.

Redroze - The photos are sharp because we just got a new Sony Cybershot with a Carl Zeiss lens - but yes they are hosted on photobucket

Salviastreet - haven't had a problem with the cracker jars but admit that most of the stuff I store in them is short term - cereal and snacks. But I am going to try that rubber gasket idea because I don't know that my black lids are really airtight.
Mamadadpaige: WOn't touch the Campari myself but my husband likes Negroni's - I shot each of Campari, Gin & Sweet Vermouth with a twist of orange (very important he says) on the rocks. Enjoy.

allison0704 - love your pantry as well. The dark wood is so beautiful - and what are those boxes down below?

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I am just green (about the color of that adorable timer) with envy!

I am excited to see how this comes along for you, and of course, the finishing touches. Thanks for sharing!

I love the shot of your enfilade, from the formal red dining room down to your homey little pantry. It all works together.

If you ever felt like it was too much openness though, you could hang a curtain on the pantry opening and keep it pushed back most of the time.

I absolutely adore it!

We have an 1894 Victorian, and we have our original pantry, but ours is smaller, and far less cheerful than yours. We had to replace the original shelves, because we moved the original entrance door, but we did replace them with similar wooden shelves.

Our kitchen originally had two pantries -- one, the one we kept, that was obviously designed to be a larder for cold storage, and another that was I guess for things that didn't need to be kept cold, that we needed to give up to fit our refrigerator.

Our cold pantry juts out from the house, almost like a separate structure, with a small mud room and pantry. The pantry has a window, and gets very cold in there in the winter. We insulated the rest of the kitchen, and the mud room when we did our renovation, but we didn't put any insulation or heat in the pantry so that we could still use it as cold storage in the winter. Last night I pulled a diet coke out of there and it was icy! But I almost hate going in there when it is really cold, because it is SO COLD.

I am in serious lust after everything. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of home I've always dreamed of having.

I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures.

That space would make me happy, too! It is a fine marriage of beauty and function.

I have the same set of vintage tins (sugar, flour, coffee, tea) you have! My husband's parents got them as a wedding present in 1961 (I think). Where did you get yours? I love the font used on them!

Anita

Wow.. that's making me happy too. Where did you get the shelves? Did a carpenter do them? Cabinet company? They look great!

Wow, that's great. If I had it to do over again, I think I'd keep my dishes in pantry type storage, too. Yours is in a perfect spot handy to both eating areas. You must not need much more than the stove in the kitchen! Enjoy.

Danielle00 - most of the shelving is original. My husband replaced a few, added some shallow ones on one side and he made the brackets himself - based on a kitchen we saw in a magazine.

Can't even remember where I got those tins - I have had them for years. Can't resist anything with art deco font.

Jeannie Kitchen - that's cool that you have a cold storage pantry. It reminds me of the lady I worked for as a nanny in Paris - she didn't even have a fridge in her house. Merely a cabinet that vented to the outside. I thought she was a little nutty though - she really needed to modernize. And I didn't trust her leftovers - always feared I would be getting food poisioning. But I lived to tell the tale.

Rexem, the wicker containers on the bottom of the workbench hold canned V8, drinks or bottled water. The wooden boxes on the bottom shelf (above toaster oven) were kitchen canisters that belonged to my maternal grandmother. I keep the lids off and put packages of things in them. Easier to see what's there.

Your kitchen is great - can't wait to see it finished!

I wonder about your photography- is is lovely. What kind of camera do you use? My Sony Cybershot just does not do justice to kitchen pictures that I try to take.

I am still jealous and drooling- congrats!

Absolutely love it! Makes me want to go organize my pantry now. Congratulations, you did a great job, not only the technical part but most important the artistic part. It is so colorful and well cheery like you pointed out!

Beautiful, really! What size is the pantry?

I just took a break from endless hours of wallpaper stripping and am delighted to have seen your beautiful pics! Everything is beautiful, and you used my three favorite colors (red, yellow, green) so nicely together. I love it!

Could you please tell me the name/brand of your green kitchen paint? :o)

Our pantry is 73 x 80 inches. Shelves are 11 1/2 inches deep.

Worldmom - you asked the million dollar question. We originally painted the kitchen potpourri green after Jen Gardner's kitchen here on Gardenweb but it was just too bright and intense. That's the problem with coosing a color online. So then we tried the next lightest color - Pale Vista and that was just too light so this is a mix of 50% potpourri green/50% white. We call it Roche Green (after our last name) :)

David123 - its the Carl Zeiss lens that makes all the difference on the camera. WE bought this camera because my father had the same one and we loved his pictures.

It's amazing! I'm so inspired! I can't wait to tackle my pantry when it's finally time. I've always wondered about the best way to store brown sugar and I have a feeling you have yours in a charming type of container...could you please share? Merci!

Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring. Since showing your pictures to my husband, he has agreed to put a small sideboard in our pantry with the microwave and can opener on it plus we have decided that we can just frame the doorway and not use a door....one less door and one less set of door hardware! Yippee!

Absolutely beautiful! The pantry in my last house and the one that will be in the new house are both larger than yours, but look VERY boring and pedestrian next to yours! I love the style you put into it. Great job . . . you inspire me to think of how mine will look as well as how it will work.

Arlene

WOW. Love it all. Most inspiring. We're going to get to the pantry someday. And the stove!! Completely diggable.

btw, does someone have a little Nambe habit? :)

Thanks! I was hoping the space available for a pantry in our kitchen was close to the size of yours, but it is smaller 36d x 66w.
Your tin ceiling is exquisite.

blakey - My brown sugar is stored in a Anchor Hocking cracker jar (the ones with the aluminum lids in the close up of the jars) bought at Target. Haven't had a problem but someone else said they didn't think those were really airtight. So maybe a bailjar / fido jar with a rubber gasket would work - that is certainly airtight.

Flyleft - yup - love the Nambe - I think they are so sexy looking. But can you believe the big bowl in the center is a $20 knock off from Target?

cotehele - can you believe that tin ceiling was hidden under a [gasp] drop ceiling when we bought the house. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice two thirds of the tin in the other section of the kitchen because it had been destroyed, but were happy to salvage this little bit. Plus we are fortunate to have tin in very good shape in the Master. Tin was considered a fire deterrent and our house belonged to a Fire Chief in the early days...

ncamy - glad to have helped you with your planning. I have learned so so much from this site and have been so inspired I am glad to pay it forward.

Well you've done spoiled me. I was at Cost Plus yesterday and was ooohing and aahing over all the cool jars they have. I already have one plan in the works and will be doing another once we have our pantry built.