Designing a functional pantry to suit the space of a kitchen is key to optimising storage and achieving high liveability within your kitchen.
Kitchen Shack Designers are experienced in designing pantry options to suit a huge range of kitchens. From walk-in pantries, corner pantries, wall pantries, benchtop pantries to pull-out pantries. They know how to design a pantry to suit the floor space and storage needs of each kitchen.
Here we explain five pantry types that will be best suited to your kitchen space.
1. Walk-in Pantries – spacious and seamless
This pantry type is best suited to those homes where there is a generous floor plan to suit.
The Oakleigh Kitchen Renovation is a great example where the designer created a large walk-in pantry. This maximised storage, created a second food preparation area with a dishwasher and sink to hide the mess from the main area. The extra shelving and storage mean the family will never run out of storage space. Designed as a dual purpose the sliding door between the main kitchen and the walk-in pantry means the two areas can operate separately or easily open it up creating a seamless flow.
Recommendation: If you don’t have an extra room or space to make a walk-in pantry practical, it is usually better to use the main kitchen for extra storage and day to day functionality.
2. Corner Pantries – make clever use of unused space
Another type of pantry is a corner solution. Corner pantries can turn awkward kitchen corners into valuable storage space. This way you can fit bulky appliances, groceries and everyday items all in one place. The shelving makes everything visible and easily accessible. This solution can work with most kitchen layouts and doesn’t require a huge footprint.
Recommendation: if you are a busy family who needs space to store bulk buys, lunchbox snacks and appliances to keep benchtops without clutter then a corner pantry is the perfect solution.
3. Wall Pantries – sleek and generous
Wall pantries are built in cupboards that run along your kitchen wall to store everyday items. They often have adjustable shelves to keep everything organised.
This type of pantry blends with the rest of the cabinetry keeping the kitchen looking clean and uniform. It can work well in both small and large layouts.
The Seabrook Kitchen Renovation displays the 2 door wall pantry offering lots of functionality through excellent use of vertical space, making up for a relatively small, narrow space. The generous pantry height enables many fixed shelves to store a wide array of pantry items.
Recommendation: use a wall pantry if you want your floor space to be well utilised and keep the seamless flow of cabinetry.
4. Pull-out Pantry – easy to access items
Pull out pantries make organisation easy and everything is visible. This is ideal when there is enough wall and floor space like the Rowville Showroom designed with a pantry shelves and pull-out drawers. No more having to reach into dark, deep corners of the pantry.
Recommendation: use a pull out pantry if you love organisation or if anyone in the household has mobility needs as this makes life easier.
5. Benchtop Pantries – compact and clever
A modern benchtop pantry is great for storing staples and appliances like this Kew Renovation. This is a great solution so under-bench drawer space can also be utilised. This provides an opportunity to organise pantry and appliance items in separate sections of the pantry, making it easier to find what you need quickly.
Recommendation: use a benchtop pantry if you are a daily appliance user and require extra under benchtop storage.
So, if you need to get organised in your kitchen, Kitchen Shack experienced Designers can design to any kitchen size, floor plan or storage requirements. Creating clever designs for your pantry needs at affordable prices.
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