Why did you choose your forum name plus photos of our kitchens

[Tan]

Kylie - LOVE your pantry - we have been saying that if we ever build that is exactly what we would do - have a full length pantry/storeromm.  in my dreams i would also incorporate a "wet" kitchen, .

[kyton]

LOL - the builder went bankrupt 95% of the way through the build so no chance of that.

We just built a pool house and I did the same thing out there - but it houses all the pool equipment and the fridge recess so no shelves out there.

[cookie1]

Lelly I love the tidy pantry, I am jealous as mine badly needs a clean.

Kylie I adore your pantry. That is what my brother did with his house, a pantry that runs the full length of the kitchen right behind it. If I ever built again (which is highly unlikely) that's what I'd do.

[Cornish Cream]

So envious of your pantry Kyle.
You put my storage cupboards to shame Lelly Must get mine clean and tidy after seeing all your hard work

[Halex]

Love your Pantry too.

How many mouth do you have to feed every night.

I think you could store enough food in there to last a few years

H

[meganjane]

Wow, your home and pantry make me kyton!

Great to see this thread still going.

[fundj&e]

  now thats what i call a pantry 

[kyton]

Lol Lally there is DH, myself plus daughter aged 6 and two sons aged 4 and 2.

It is quite funny seeing peoples reactions the first time they see the pantry - some have called it my "supermarket" and have joked that in the case of a natural disaster that we will survive living solely from the pantry.

When we designed the house my list of wants were lots of storage everywhere - and I made sure that it was done!

[kyton]

Oh and you know what the best part is? Everything is on show so you use everything. All my appliances are on the bottom shelf and so get used, no food expires because you can see it, no dark nooks and crannies.

[Halex]

We built or house 2 years ago. I had a choice, a large home thetre room, & small pantry or large walk in pantry & small hoe  thetre room.

I chose the home teatre.
I am a terrible "bargain shopper" something on special I buy way too much, so with a large pantry it woud be stocked to feed us a lifetime.

But i do lve your pantry

H

[kyton]

The home theatre here was the husband's pick LOL - mine was the kitchen, laundry and storage.

[mcmich]

You did a great job on the pantry Lelly. Kylie your kitchen is amazing, love splashback.

[dede]

Kylie that pantry is the best pantry I have ever seen. Now that's the type of pantry we all dream of.
If I was ever to build a house that's what I would do as well.

[fundj&e]

my dream kitchen would have a walkin cool room and a walkin freezer

[andiesenji]

Gorgeous pantry.  Makes mine look like a jumble sale, yours is so nicely organized.

I think pantries are extremely important.  I was born and raised at a time when refrigerators were just phasing out ice boxes and the house in which I was born had a "cold" pantry that was set over a cistern (water from the roof was funneled into it through several strainers) and it had a stone floor and apparently evaporation from the cistern cooled the floor and kept the room cool.  It also had a screened "window" in the outside wall at floor level and at ceiling level for air circulation.  
There was also a "dry" pantry which was much warmer.  All the home canned stuff was kept in the first one, store-bought canned goods kept in the second, along with flour, etc.

It seems funny that for several decades people never thought much about a pantry but in recent years, since the advent of the home improvement TV shows, more and more home buyers are demanding a pantry and won't even consider a home without one.