I love my walk in pantry. Most everything are in matching lined baskets. I came upon a half off sale shortly after we moved into our home 11 years ago and grabbed all they had at two different stores. So glad I did.
The walls are painted a pretty mottled faux finish in yellow, but I have yet to paint the shelves. For shame, yes, but there are so many other projects to be done so I can live with them as they are. Sorry no photos to share.
Why not share photos of your pantry and we can help you figure out what to do. If that's what you want.

Nope, not pretty at all, but extremely functional, which is what counts for me.

misformink - please tell me you mean the shelves are 30" wide and 7" deep not the other way 'round!! ;-) What is your access to this pantry - one door, 2 doors, bi-fold??? Have you looked on Pinterest? Lots of great pantry ideas.

I have a pantry in this rental and I absolutely hate it. The shelves are 24" deep and about 30" wide and I can't think of a more impractical use of space for food storage. I wouldn't trust these shelves for the weight of dish storage.

A walk-in pantry is only a fantasy for me! I have jammed cupboards. But I would love to see pantry spaces. DH and I saw some model homes on Saturday, and one had a Butler's pantry as well as a nice walk-in. I was in love, but that particular model was huge for just the two of us.

Mine leans more functional than pretty but I'm very happy with it. I do use the little wooden crates from Clementines to corral similar items (granola making ingredients, baking supplies, kid plates and bowls) so those add color and keep it neater. There's a place for everything and everything is in its own place.

It seems clear and orderly to me, because I'm the one in it/using it 99% of the time, but my husband can't find things. He'll be looking for something and I'll say the shelf at your eye level, on the left of that shelf, near the boxes of teas and he'll still say nope, we don't have any. Once I foolishly bought more coffee filters after asking him did you check the pantry. Yes. I didn't double check. I return from the store with 200 filters (he makes 1 pot of coffee a week) and find an unopened pack of 200 filters. Luckily, they don't take up much room. I just hope the coffee maker they fit lasts as long as the supply.

We have a walk-in pantry but it is not all that pretty but it is functional. I've been thinking of ways to make it better but it just doesn't seem to be a priority right now. I have mis-matched canisters, mis-matched baskets, all from years of buying this or that for a specific purpose. DH is of the 'if it isn't broke, don't fix it' mentality, so I can't get him onboard for a big change.

I don't have a walk-in, just a pantry cabinet about 30"wide and 12" deep, floor to ceiling. It is not pretty at all. I organize it periodically, but DH and DS tend to just cram stuff in wherever, and it gets very chaotic. I have looked at baskets and Rev-A-Shelf options, but haven't invested in anything yet. My linen closet also needs help.

Linen closets! Since I'm the only one using it at my regular home, it stays neat and orderly. At my vacation place, the combination of the cleaning people and my bff's family (3 teens) means it's a complete jumble. Why can't they follow along with my perfect system? At least once a year I need to take everything out and reorganize it. I've even labeled the shelves: face cloths, hand towels, bath towels, beach towels, queen sheets, king sheets, etc.

I bet it's due for a straightening right this very minute.

Funny you should ask! We are right in the middle of redoing our pantry. Beefing up the shelves and adding a cabinet with tile counter top. I was going to start a thread requesting opinions on cabinet paint color.

When I had our kitchen gutted and completely redone some years back, I had my kitchen desk and a window torn out to make way for a tall pantry cabinet with many pull-out shelves. I had an over abundance of windows in there, so losing one was not a big deal. I'd hoped for a walk-in pantry but sadly could not make that work without also giving up the new bar area (liquor cab, 3 upper glass-door display cabs for good glassware and a lower storage cab) . . . and the door into our dining room. I like everything in my kitchen to be very organized and pretty. My pantry is organized, but because they're pull-out shelves with nice, tall edges, pretty organizing baskets aren't needed. I do love seeing pics, though, of pretty, well-organized walk-in pantries. My pastas, quinoas, faro, lentils, various rice, etc. are all stored in matching clear jars on one shelf. A funny aside: my kids think it's comical that I am so anal that I organize all my canned goods by kind (beans, vegetables, fruits, etc.) and label each can on its top with a bold black marker pen. For example "Bb" means that it's Beans and specifically, black beans. "Vt" tells me that can is a Vegetable, and specifically, tomatoes. I like being able to quickly find what I'm looking for and with those pull-out shelves that are below eye level, what you see is basically the tops of each can. I know, sadly somewhat over-organized but it works for me. Pretty, it's not, though. LOL!

Justgotabeme - Thanks, I'll figure it out. I'm in full on organizing and clean out mode over here and felt like discussing.

Dlm - Oh, I'm afraid those are the correct dimensions.

There are shelves along the sides and I can walk inside if I really wanted to. :)

I have a large walk-in pantry that I don't like. It has that wire vinyl coated shelving that I despise and although we've arranged at many different ways, there's no really good way to arrange it with the shelves we have. A quote from "the" well known closet company was in excess of $6000 and I am really tired of projects at the moment.

Our plan has always been to pay off the mortgage when we finished all the renovations, and though we still have a few things to do after nine years I am ready to go forward with the mortgage burning ceremony LOL. We are the only ones on my side of the family to ever have a mortgage, so i am ready!

My pantry is not pretty, but it is organized.

No, it's very functional and I can find things at a glance and it has a door, lol, which is always closed.

I think mine is rather pretty. It was newly built when we had the house expanded and gut reno'ed ~4yr ago. It's not huge, but TBH I do not like huge pantries. I am 5 min from a grocery store and I don't want to replicate a Costco. Plus, we do not eat much of anything from boxes or cans.

So most of our pantry has serving items, small appliances, vases, some spices, and then, behind the door, is the area where we have paper towels, extra boxes of cereal, zip locs, wrap, that sort of stuff. It has a wooden counter and floors, and the open wooden shelving is painted Revere Pewter. It has our freezer drawers too.

In my old house I had full height pull out pantries on either side of the fridge (all built in) and it functioned very nicely. I should look for a pic. But I realized that more than half of the space was usually taken up with expired or stale stuff, and it made the fridge look even more massive, so I did not do it in this house.

Mine isn't pretty but it is mostly organized. It is a walk-in pantry but we are going to gut it when we redo the kitchen and instead have pantry cabinets. It currently has bifold doors which I absolutely hate - the doors always seem to be left open for a variety of reasons. In anticipation of our redo, we actually removed one of the doors as it was always in the way of the fridge opening. I'd much rather have shallow shelving b/c the shelves now are too deep so I never know what is in the back.

Kswl, we had wire shelving originally and I hated it. Things were always slipping through the spaces or tipping over, plus the way ours is designed, we have a corner space that wasn't being efficiently used. We redid it ourselves using Closetmaid (or similar) that we purchased at Lowe's. We probably spent about $3-400 total on it and sooooo much better than the wire shelving, in terms of use of space (there is a corner unit we used to make use of the corner where we store platters, and other non-food larger items) and having nice flat shelving! Very easy to put together and install. The worst part was emptying out everything that was in the pantry while we put it together (had to do that twice as later we briefly moved out the shelving to have wood floors installed).

Mine isn't pretty but it isn't unattractive. It's not something I've ever thought about decorating. Mine is more of a closet - not really walk-in with shelves to the very top - it would be ridiculous to paint a different color or wallpaper. However, it is very functional. On the top shelf I have things that are not used often (specialty cake pans, hot/cold bags, thermos, etc., etc., etc.). The floor has a large basket where I have excess paper products and a smaller basket that holds potatoes. The actual shelves hold all dry and canned products. I do have some nice glass containers that hold items such as tea bags, etc. I have several other baskets that match the baskets on the floor although vary in size. I have excess dish towels in one, chips in another (in bags) and have one that holds protein bars/granola bars and another holding hubby's snack cakes. I have some of the smaller wire thingies that hold packets, and another larger one that holds foil, parchment paper, waxed paper, etc. It works for us!

Lol, violet west, when I first saw those I wanted one. Then I saw a old renovated house with an old screen door on the pantry and I wanted that. Briefly. We have a wood door painted black. Not exciting but it matches the hundred other doors around here and is very easy to close.

4kids, we are genetically incapable of remodeling our pantry! Seriously, ours is a triangular, weird space created when a wing was added in 1994 at an angle to the main house. The mirror image downstairs we had made into a wine cellar. They are about 80 square feet, which is a respectable size, but the shape is daunting and CC was going to have to put some custom work into it. What I really want is to wake up one day and have it all done by the pantry fairy :-(

I don't have a pantry, just some cabinets that hold cans of food, flour, etc. I live abut three blocks from a grocery store and I figure the food can be on their shelves and I can walk or drive over when I need it. I do wish I had a utility closet for brooms, buckets, etc, but I don't. I keep them at the top of the basement steps. I have a walk in closet in my bedroom and it is a disaster at the moment.

DLM2000 I believe she means the whole pantry is that size. Not the shelves. I believe you missed the period before she said the size of the pantry.
misformink I'm in that same mode.
Our pantry isn't what I'd call pretty, though it might look better if I ever paint the shelves, but it does it job of holding food, serving dishes and other kitchen needs.

Gosh, I just got home from a day in the city and realized I never posted my comment. Oh, well. Here it is anyway.

My pantry is a closet with Elfa wire shelving. I really don't mind the wire shelving at all and a recent addition of Elfa shelf liners has made the shelves even easier to use. One of the best features of the wire shelving is the ability to easily adjust the shelf height. I have also added some OXO Pop Containers for a neater, more organized (as well as functional) look.

I relly need to wear my reading glasses more consistently - you said 7' (feet) not 7" (inches). Duh.

Ha! I was confused too!

Every time I see this topic heading, I read it as "pretty panties." Oh dear. Maybe I need reading glasses :-)

JLC, okay you can start that post.

I hope that I am on my way to a pretty pantry. This year I did try to get some matching containers for some of my bulk goods. It was more about the fact that like containers usually fit together well which gave a more pleasing appearance to the eye. The shelves are a bit on the deeper side so there is room behind the containers to store extras of what is in the container (like bags of sugar bought on sale). I have turntables in the corner, which I really love for helping me to find stuff. I hope one day to paint the inside a lively color but I think that stenciling is too busy for me in a pantry. There are just so many different things for the eye to differentiate from that adding yet another element is too much. I am a bulk shopper since I only go into town about once a month. We have very few canned goods (just tomato products and coconut milk), but I need to work on organizing those better.

What would make the pantry prettier is for me to stand by and supervise the putting away of ingredients. Some in the household seem incapable of distinguishing categories of foods and putting like with like. I may break down and purchase a label maker to help.

We have a large walk in pantry that was originally the laundry room. The previous owner moved the laundry upstairs and was using the room as a small office. But for us, a pantry was more functional and I love having it. It has nice wood flooring and a fun wall color but I still need to put permanent shelving in. Right now it just has metal chef shelving which I really don't like. Hey! Maybe that can be my next big project!