Do It Yourself Pantry Shelving

Finishing touches in building pantry shelves.

Do it yourself pantry shelving.

The middle two shelves are installed 12 inches apart. However the most common type of pantry is a small closet in the kitchen. Pantry shelving needs to be built and maintained with care to provide a good storage area for all your goods. Finally caulk all the holes and edges or any gaps.

If you have a pantry that just doesn t have enough shelving to hold everything this is the perfect weekend project. Pantry shelving is a great asset to keeping a kitchen well stocked and organized. To conserve space the eight shelves are just 1 2 inch taller than the jars they are meant to hold. A pantry can be as large as an entire room or as small as a sliding unit that rolls into a tight space like between a refrigerator and cabinet.

Custom shelving in a nook. There are still empty shelves in here and i cleaned out all the food from the kitchen cupboards and one shelf from the linen closet that s next to the pantry in the hallway isn t that amazing. You can completely organize your pantry with this one shelving unit and it s easy to build and really cheap considering the storage space that you get. The top four shelves are 11 inches deep.

You can literally store everything you need on this one. Building custom pantry shelving is not difficult. This pantry has high end looks with a diy concept. Paint the caulk as well as any exposed edges to match the melamine board.

We installed two 15 inch deep shelves at the bottom and left 16 18 inches of shelf space between each shelf for storing large items like cereal boxes tall bottles and small appliances. It s based around a built in bookcase with half glass doors that allow for more attractive food items to be displayed while clunkier objects are kept hidden away. Pat yourself on the back because you are now the proud owner of a new pantry. Pantry shelving ideas can have style and not be expensive.

We figured out a great solution for the third wall of the pantry that doesn t have shelving on it we built a shelf between studs. Plan out how you want your shelves to be installed in the pantry. The diyer who created this pantry shelving project made use of a natural stepback in the house s layout to create pantry shelving flush to the wall.