We have a very large closet in the dining room. It does hold a lot but, it's very deep which I don't like. Have to look through before doing a big shop.

Had a nice sized one in our last house. This house didn't have one, but we got rid of the cabinet pantry, built out a wall and included the too small coat closet on the other side of the wall and now I have a very small walk in pantry. Really it's just a step in pantry, but it's SO much better than nothing.

We have a tiny kitchen 12' x 12'. So not much storage space for food AND cookware. So our solution was to store all of our food in a converted closet outside of the kitchen. It's a long roomy semi deep coat closet , which we converted into a food pantry {not a walk in though} which is located outside of our kitchen door in the hallway. I We converted it by removing the pole to hold & the shelf that was in there & painting it.

Then we installed an Elfa shelving system {the silver wire one} from Container Store. We bought the system onsale & my husband installed it. Now we have wire shelves to the ceiling inside of the closet. I use it to store some cookware and all of the dry food. I only store plates, glasses & cookware in the kitchen but no food. The only food in the kitchen is the food in the fridge. This works well for us. I use a small stool I keep in the 'food pantry' to reach the higher up items. I being an avid cook would never be able to own as much cookware as I do if I had to store my food in the kitchen, so this converted pantry is great for me!

I love my pantry and I have an automatic light button that turns the light on when the door is opened and when the door is closed the light turns off.

Not in this house and I miss it. I do have extensive cabinets and storage in the attached garage for paper goods, cleaning supplies and appliances not used often. It is only a step away, but I loved my old walk-in pantry.

Yes, I do have a walk In pantry that can get messy really quick, so I have to organize and clean frequently. But I love the space.

Same as Diana Bier...nice size kitchen (about 18' x 20') with tons of storage. Pantry cabinet has pullout shelves.

I do not have a walk-in pantry but I do have 2 30" wide 24" deep 90" tall pantrys with pull out shelves. They hold enough food for a month and house appliances. I am a Realtor and see all kinds of food storage. The picture was the biggest pantry I have ever seen. It had a wall of shelves, an upright freezer, 2nd fridge, and counter/coffee bar (the cabinets came out of the kitchen when they remodeled, they kept the range hood because they would run the fan when they plugged in their crockpots). It was huge!

The house does but I don't. The house has a butlers' pantry between the kitchen and the main front room. But we use it to store all the serving ware and food and other supplies for the inn that we run.

My kitchen for my family does not have a pantry and I miss it.

I like pullout pantries built into the wall where the fridge is I find they hold an incredible amount of stuff if you have space for more than one you can organize them to hold small appliances IMO walk in pantries are a waste of space . I do however love a butlers pantry if designed in the right spot between kitchen and DR . We had one when I was growing up and it held all the china, glassware , linen for the DR so saved a lot of space in the actual kitchen we did BTW eat in the DR for all meals. I designed one for a client and incorporated her baking centre in it too

Large cabinet pantry with pullout shelves in the kitchen, walk through pantry between the kitchen and garage. It was formerly the laundry, which we moved to the master bath.

I do recommend walk-in pantry. Design it in a way, it works as kitchen too. For example blenders, kitchen aid processor can be used without need to move them.

I prefer a walk in pantry over a pull out pantry system simply because we have a large family and I buy in bulk. I store my 100lbs of rice and 50lbs of flour and 25lbs of sugar in airtight buckets on the floor on my pantry. I'd lose that capability with a pull out pantry system. I wish my pantry was as large as that massive one pictured a few posts above... because now I have to traverse to my garage to get food out of my extra fridge, and I have to traipse down to the basement to access the chest freezer. I would've LOVED to have the space to house them all together!

No, we do not have one but I have never had a pantry of any kind in any house that we have lived in. I do not miss having one because I've never had one plus we have floor to ceiling cabinets in our kitchen, which has plenty of storage.

Not currently but I will in about 1 mouth when the new house is finished. And it is one of the features I most looking forward to. The house I live in now has a tiny kitchen with very limited storage. Small appliances either sit on the counter top taking up space or get stuffed in a base cabinet which making makes digging them out a major pain. I keep a small skillet and a couple of pans on the range because there isn't enough storage in the cabinets for them. When food items go on sale I like to stock up and am forced to store them in the garage now (which sucks in the summer when you live in Phoenix). The new pantry was designed with plenty of room for small appliances, larger cookware, crock pots etc. and more food items than I will ever use with plenty of space left over. I can hardly wait.

I have two very large sliding door pantries. Both are "reach in" and I will never be without one again. One is on the end of the "cooking area", the other is located in a "dead area" adjacent. I have no upper cabinets and I don't miss them at all. I buy in bulk (on sale) all canned goods, paper products, cereal, sugar, flour, rice, water. Family of 3 adults. I'm not LDS, but their idea of a six month supply of food on-hand struck me as prudent.

We moved from a Georgian style home with minimal storage in the kitchen and used Sauder storage cabinets in the basement. It was a pain when I needed an ingredient while cooking and had to go downstairs and back up. When we designed this new home I was willing to forego many upgrades to ensure I had storage right where I needed it. Love my large walk in pantry!!

Cami Peck, were the owners Mormons? They are commanded to keep one year's supply of food on hand. Friends of mine had a pantry nearly that large and kept it full all the time.

I have a walk-in pantry that is tucked under my stairs in what would otherwise be wasted space. Love it, wouldn't be without it! It's tiny but mighty.

We installed the Elfa Shelving system like artsyphartsy_home_maker (love your screenname!), too. It holds about half again as much as it did with the builder installed fixed shelving.

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No they were not Mormon. Just a very large family.

I wouldn't live without one. Chez Deb, where is your food?

Cami Peck, they must have been cooking all the time! No wonder they need such a large pantry.

I don't have a pantry, but I have a laundry room with a wall of cabinets just for all the big cooking things like crockpot, mixers, panini press and that frees up a lot of space

I've never had a house with a pantry, we just have cupboards in the kitchen. I store big things like roasting pans in the basement.

I had a walk in pantry for 17 years in two different homes and I miss it. I now have a cabinet type pantry in the kitchen and a large reach in closet with bi-pass doors in the laundry room (interior dimensions of 19" x 75"). This works, but I miss my walk in pantry.

I have one and it's one of my favorite spots in our 4 rooms house. Makes the kitchen uncluttered full time, only kettle and toaster in one corner of a counter I love it that way.

I don't have one, I would loooooooooove to have one. If you can, get one :)

Nope, and I didn't want one. I have a corner pantry which holds all my plates and stuff and 2 pantries with pull-out drawers. Perfect for me. I simply don't want to go to another "room" to get my stuff.

Yes, and it was one of my requirements when I was first discussing things with my KD. Essentially they walled off a 5' x 7' corner, added a pocket door, and then I put "Metro"-style shelves and my little chest freezer in there. It acts as not just a larder, but also stores some hardware stuff for me. I love that I can walk in and see things without having everything hidden behind doors.

Even with a lot of storage I still wanted a walk in pantry

I have a pantry, but it's not walk-in. It's basically about the size of a coat closet, with shelving. I have 9' ceilings and it goes up to the ceiling. It holds a lot, a surprising amount. There is a thin door on it that is painted the same color as the kitchen walls so it blends in. The door has just a magnetic closure and just a cabinet knob to pull open, so I don't have to fool with doorknob hardware or have to turn a door knob with sticky hands to open the pantry.

I keep my microwave on the pantry shelf that is about waist-high. I had an electrician install an outlet in the pantry when I was re-doing the kitchen. I am not a heavy user of a MW, and really like that it is out of the way and out of sight, as MWs are not the best looking things.

I wish !

Love mine. Always had a small closet like pantry in my previous homes, but when we built this home I included a large walk in pantry in my plans. Couldn't function without it.

I do and I love it! When we built and designed this house four years ago for our family of six living 20+ minutes from nearest grocery, I took the corner portion of the kitchen and designated it as a pantry. (A pantry is cheaper to build than custom kitchen cabinets.) To make it a walk-in, I took space from the adjoining gigantic powder room (which is still large enough for a 36 inch wide door but not for a 360 degree turn in a wheelchair). My walk-in pantry is narrow but deep enough for two adults to stand side by side (albeit rather cozily). I had three electrical outlets installed, one on each wall. Unfortunately, the trim/shelving guys didn't get the memo of the intended use of the space,. The shelves with the electrical outlets do not have enough clearance to use an appliance - the shelves above them do! I've asked my handy-man husband to drill holes for cords, but since he doesn't like the idea of a crockpot or toaster being used in a pantry, he hasn't made it a priority.

Living in the country with four young kids, I cook most of our meals. I stock up on sale items and buy flour/sugar/rice in bulk. Having a pantry helps me save money on my overall grocery budget while also providing healthier foods for my family.

We currently have a reach-in closet in the kitchen with deep shelves. I don’t like it at all. We’re designing a new home, and it will have a separate walk-in pantry for food storage and a smaller walk-in area in the kitchen for storing small appliances and other “stuff”.

I made sure my new home included a walk-in pantry so that I would not

miss the one I had in my former 1903 home. Note the short door in this pantry. It opens to the garage for grocery pass-through, or sometimes a quick short cut for me!

When we downsized for retirement 8 years ago our kitchen was to be part of the great room, and we didn't want to have many wall cabinets. We also tucked the frig out of the sight lines from the great room. To solve the storage issue, we designed a pantry that is 7x6. It holds all of the pots and pans, the small appliances, canned/boxed/paper goods, and the microwave. The kitchen always looks good, and we definitely don't miss the microwave cluttering up the kitchen. We are in the process of moving, and downsizing, again. Our kitchen will still be part of a great room scheme, but we are including more wall cabinets because our new pantry will be much smaller. We know we will miss the pantry space, and imagine the new pantry will be used for pots and pans, small appliances, and paper goods.

In Vancouver, we felt lucky to find a 3BR condo at 975 sq. ft, which allowed the two of us to each have our own small office. But the real bonus for us, unseen in every other property we looked at, was a 5x8 walk-in pantry at the end of the small kitchen. We got design estimates for the sleek built-in of my dreams (my Ideabook was bursting) but could not justify the custom price of something we could buy at Home Depot and install ourselves. But we did even better: we were combining two booklovers households into one, and had an excess of tall shelves - which became our pantry. The one storage purchase we made was a pretty standalone hutch with glass doors up top - we placed it to be visible when the door's open. Craigslist, $100. the pantry holds all small appliances (except the coffee maker), canned goods and baking supplies, plus all our cleaning gear and even a corner for my partner's golf clubs! We couldn't be happier. Even in our small home, it doesn't feel like lost space - it works like super-efficient and invisible storage.

We remodeled our kitchen last year, and one of the must haves in the remodel was a walk-in pantry. We took a very deep hall coat closet which shared a wall with the kitchen and turned it into the walk-in pantry, then took some space from the seldom used LR to add back in a smaller coat closet and additional space for the pantry. In the pantry, I store larger kitchen appliances, baking stuff, food/groceries, pet food, cookbooks, and also have electrical/USB ports for charging phones so they are not out on counter tops in the kitchen. I have a folding step stool in it so I can reach the topmost shelves. I like the swinging door that I decided on... like a restaurant kitchen door, it also adds some character to the kitchen.

Love, Love, Love it!

Lol, sure I can walk into mine, it's tucked under a staircase so I can take a step in and then out again. It's tiny, but I'm glad I have it! The shelves under the slanted ceiling are deep and when I first moved in I had a hard time finding things in the back. Solved that problem by buying heavy-duty trays like they use in supermarket delis and bakeries. They won't warp or bend if I need to pull them out to find something in the back and don't waste vertical space.

I had one and got rid of it because it was constantly a cluttered mess impossible to keep tidy and because I got tired of going and fetching things there and having to return them. I prefer cabinet storage and more open kitchen.

It looks like this is quite a hot topic, considering how many comments I had to scroll by to get to the spot where I could leave my comments!! Just like Emily H, the pollster, I don't have a walk in pantry in my 1938 home. I'm planning to remodel the kitchen this coming summer and WILL have a floor to ceiling cabinet that is a pantry, with pull-out shelves. It will make my life so much easier in the kitchen. I'm excited!

Yes! It was always my dream to have one. When we moved into a small rambler 2 years ago, there was a 35 SF laundry off the 88 SF kitchen. We moved the laundry to the attached garage, built some shelves to go under some existing cabinets, and installed a tall Ikea Billy bookcase. There is a shallow closet with shelves inside the space, and we added the Elfa system to the inside of the door of this closet. The entrance to the pantry is a beaded curtain.

I like to cook, and my pantry is JAM-PACKED with food, dishes, pots and pans, appliances and cookbooks. There still is room for two of us to be in there, and everything is out of sight from the kitchen.

Needless to say, I love it!

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i have had a 5x5 walk in pantry in my last two houses. Weirdly our new house which is being remodeled is our biggest house and has the smallest kitchen with the smallest pantry. It is more of a step in pantry. We will end up using the cabinets in the utility room/mudroom to hold the rest of our pantry stuff.

Currently we have neither walk-in pantry nor real cabinet pantry, so all of our groceries are in two upper and one lower cabinets. It's not ideal, but there are only two of us and we purchase groceries by the week. In two of my previous apartment kitchens I had walk-in pantries that were roughly 3'-0" deep and 4'-6" wide with 1'-0" or less deep shelves on each side and I really liked how those functioned. If we ever build or remodel a kitchen we will probably try to replicate that setup.

Not unless you count our spider web filled, rough stone foundation basement. Great for storing canned food and drinks. :)

NO! and it makes me mad. I cannot imagine what got into the designers that they didn't include a pantry. Bending down or stretching up to get basic items is a pain. There is a nice pantry planned for the remodel.

Yes and I really love it. My previous house didn't have one, and I had to give up cabinet space for pantry items. Things often got pushed back and forgotten. This is no longer a problem.

I have that exact photo saved and plan to incorporate that into my new construction!My dad is building the barn door!