I did my walk-in pantry about 6 years ago, and I love it. It made a tremendous difference--everything is organized & visible, and every inch is used.

I turned a coat closet into a pantry and outfitted it with the elfa system. I'm very pleased with it. I like that it is adjustable and made the most of the space I had to work with.

We did our daughter's closet with elfa a few years back. It was more about her stuff than clothes, so we used a lot of the components that are in the picture you posted. It was a little pricey, but we got a lot of help on what components we needed (we actually had one of their people design it on their computer) and it worked great. Find out when the annual elfa sale is (It's October I think and usually 20% off); that could save you some bucks. If you need a lower cost alternative, some of the hanging shelving systems that the big box hardware stores sell might be worth looking at.

Oh, thanks for posting this one. I will definately check into it. It looks great.

I am an Elfa junkie! I love that I can change things around and reconfigure. I will also pull it out of the current house when the new one is finished, redesigning the components for the new spaces.

Here's my pantry in the house we just sold. It was a pre-staging pic so things are a bit chaotic.

I particularly like the basket shelves with the plastic sides/dividers. They keep lots of little things in control. I see that Ikea has a similar system and i am wondering if it is same/similar and perhaps more affordable. Has anyone seen it in person?

My story is exactly like california_dreamer's. My pantry closet is 22 inches wide and 30 inches deep. You can see it on the right in this photograph from the old kitchen:

I purchased a "medium" Elfa tower (18 inches wide and about 69 inches high), composed of a 10-runner unit on top of a 7-runner unit. You can see a portion of it on the left in this photograph of my temporary kitchen:

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Most of the food stored in my pantry is unopened, so I store items horizontally in the 1-runner drawers that are only 4 inches high. I think this arrangement lets me use all of the vertical space my tiny pantry closet offers.

I have a couple of 2-runner drawers for upright storage of items that might leak. I'll use the top drawers (above eye level) for lightweight, soft things, like placemats and paper napkins, that wouldn't hurt me if they fell from that height.

On the top left, not visible in the photograph, I have an elfa 5-hook accessory that will let me hang aprons from the side of the tower in the remaining 4 inches of space left in the pantry closet.

I envy all of you who have walk-in pantries; you are sooooo lucky. I think elfa would be a great choice because so many configurations are possible, and there are so many accessories available to enhance the utility of any configuration. With elfa, there need not be any "dead" space in any pantry. Also, I think elfa dealers offer free design assistance.

Personally I *hate* wire shelves. Things just don't stand right on them. I would much rather have solid shelves.

I have used Elfa in all of my closets (wire), laundry room (wire) and office wall (solid).
I really think its great stuff, easy to use and change as needed.

I think that in a pantry I would want to use some solid shelves instead
of all wire because of the way some things will tip over.

Elfa has shelf and drawer liners that create a more "solid" surface on wire shelves, and they offer solid shelves as well. One could also place sawn-to-fit white-surfaced Masonite on top of the wire shelves. I've done that with white wire kitchen shelf organizers.

Elfa is so versatile, it would be easy to create the PERFECT pantry configuration with it and then cover the wire with additional solid surfaces where needed.

I agree with scootermom, though. The drawers are harder to move when they're loaded with heavy stuff. Better to put heavy stuff on the solid shelves that you create and use the drawers for lighter stuff like paper goods, snack food, table linens, etc.

You can also personalize pantry drawers for each member of the family. My DH's drawer contains his thermal lunch bag, his daily pills and supplements, snack food that only he eats, and the snacks he feeds his poker group. No more "Where this? Where's that?" He knows exactly where his stuff is now.