Should the upper shelves be more shallow/simple like this?

Or should I only have the counter on the back wall, keep the lower drawers, and then go straight into shelves?

Or something else entirely? I hit decision fatigue from a whole house unplanned remodel (flood). I know it’s a tight pantry for a walk in, so keeping it efficient and high functioning is important, but I’m feeling a bit paralyzed to finalize plans for it.

Is it melamine, painted wood... maple plywood? Know all your details so you are not disappointed like this woman.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6408887/seams-in-pantry-shelves-really-mecessary

Thanks, I will definitely find out! He custom built our bathroom vanities and did a lovely job, but I haven’t seen a closet/shelves from him.

Get the corner lazy susans... I even like how it sticks out.

What we can see of the kitchen looks lovely!

Those upper corner shelves look virtually useless - you can only see and reach the items right at the front. The sides of the other uppers means you have flexibility with adjusting shelf height, but at the expense of loosing the whole corner. I would probably stick with shelves on one wall or the other. Group your items by height, so you can add another shelf and minimize wasted space between shelves, or having to stack items.

Hopefully you have a super susan planned for the corner on the bottom.

Ignore the cabinet door part, but maybe something like this for the left side?

It’s probably just me, but I took my pantry shelf material sample and tried to stain it. I put curry powder, red wine, tomato sauce on it for 24 hours. I didn’t want to use a liner.
This is a slightly textured melamine that I am using in my pantry. I was unable to stain it.

I agree change the corner to include some large lazy susans. That is what I did and it is so useful.

@cubby14 I could not remember where I saw your pantry! I changed my design because of your use of the floor for the bottom shelf! I tiled my entire floor a while ago and was upset that my shelves were going to cover them.

I also had yours saved as an inspiration photo. Great job!

Are your lazy Susans built in?

I would consider having the shelves on the two walls have different spacing to accommodate different packaging.

How can you even walk in and turnaround IMO a much better choice would have been 2 true pullout pantries SxS Now what you need to do is plan what has to go in , have shelving that is dajustable and IMO oils and spices that require a walk to the pnatry is going to be a royal PITA . If you have no guessed I hate walkin pantries and for sure something like this one planned. Who designed this kitchen ? I sure hope not some cabinet salesperson . . I have pullouts but different spacing between shelving for all my planned items . Only you know what you want to store but I would find another spce for the spices and oils for sure and I rarely use one MW so not sure the purpose of 2 .

Oils and spices won’t be in the pantry. We had depth but not width to work with here, especially losing a bit of width we did have to a larger fridge. So we kept it a walk in, knowing it would be small, but also knowing that we’d have more storage in some other places. Sounds like we live different lifestyles since our microwave is our most used appliance. We eat a lot of left overs, often from various meals across a family of 4, so we are frequently reheating 4 different plates of food.

The pantry footprint is what it is, so I would appreciate any advice from people trying to help us maximize what we have to work with in light of what is most useful for our lifestyle. Stepping outside of yourself to find what’s best for someone else’s unique needs is “consulting” 101.

Love the lazy susan ideas. What a fun pantry!

@cubby14 cool idea with the lazy susans. is it one per shelf? can you share if its built in?

Is it the revalshelf multi tier insert?

cool idea with the lazy susans. is it one per shelf? can you share if its built in?

I've seen instructions on the internet for how to build-in the corner Lazy Susans. You should be able to find them pretty easily.

But, just for the record, I have Lazy Susans in my pantry -- they're XOX brand /largest size they make, and I bought them when Bed, Bath & Beyond went out of business in my area. That's a very popular brand, and I think they sell 'em on Amazon too. They're very good quality, and I like them, but I could be just as happy with a size-down -- things in the middle of the circle are kinda "lost".

@S H do you have a photo of the pantry competed?

@SH do you have a photo of your completed pantry?!

@Taming of thesru @Theresa Peterson sorry it took me so long to answer this. The lazy susans are one to each shelf large heavy duty ones that we attached to the shelf. I think they are 20 inch diameter. Can't quite remember the brand but I think it was Hafele.