old fashioned pantry

recovering_spendaholic

I would love a pantry - we had one in the house I grew up in - It wasn't huge but had loads of shelves and a tiled shelf. I have a little area at the side of my kitchen which I currently use as a cloakroom which I could convert I suppose -I love the idea of having all my tins and boxes in there.

luxor4t

I have gone green with jealousy AGAIN! (last time it was the sewing room thread).
I grew up in a house with a pantry (it was off the scullery) and it was like a little shop: everything could be stored according to type and size. Narrow shelves on one side and wider shelves across the back so there was just space to stand in it.
Ventilation will be vital as ours would go damp in winter unless mum "aired" it- mind, the houses were not very warm in those days as we only had a coal fire in the sitting room, a coke burner in the big kitchen and hot water bottles only upstairs! In the end it became a sort of dumping ground for things that were rarely used - glass dishes, big platters etc

My present house did have a pantry but it was ripped out along with the coal shed to "modernise" the kitchen by the previous owner. Now I have to store bulk buys in the garage, which is down the end of the garden... where the wash house used to be. Previous owners had quite a theme going: pantry, coal shed, wash house, landing cupboard...

Back to the point, think about what will be stored there - will it be mainly equipment (= what size? how often used? etc) or do you want it as a food store?

wanting2save

We bought a 1950s council house which has a pantry and i love it! Can store so much in there and it means all my kitchen cupboards are full of plates/tupperware etc and not food.
It also means we can stock up on loads of tins/packets etc so when we have a 'bad' month moneywise we can prettyu much live out of that and the freezer and not worry:D

It sounds like KAZ'S stepdads with the ventilation and concrete floor (although we have lino on top). We also have a concrete shelf but after reading this thread i think it would be nice to tile it??

Sharifa_2

I have a pantry - about 4 ft deep and 5ft wide, with shelves on 3 sides, and a small high window in one corner; it sits between the end of the kitchen and the downstairs bathroom. I store baking and dried stuff at the top, tins and jars in the middle, baking dishes and laundry stuff etc on the lower shelves, and the mop and bucket and dustpan/brush sit on the floor. I also have a 4-tier metal wheelie thing in there that contains cleaning products.

tanith

We bought a rundown old house 30yrs ago that had a pantry and being a silly young thing then I got the OH to rip it out...but the one sensible thing I did was save the marble slab it was round and I it has moved house with me every since and I use it for making pastry its wonderfully cold.... I also would love a pantry but no room in this tiny house.....

CountryWife_2

I have a pantry. It has a high shelf that goes all the way round the top, and fou r other shelves on the left hand side. at the back is a marble shelf, and on the right is space for hanging things. I keep all my food in there, except for the fridge stuff. on the top shelf i keep all my HM pickles, chutneys, marmalade and bottled fruit, and underneath is my wine rack, vegetable rack and space for onions/ potatoes and any bulk buys of cat food, etc. Next to the pantry is my laundry room with the WM and TD, and the boiler so it is nice and warm. I have an old shelved cupboard in there where i keep all my sheets and towels and in the winter i dry my washing in there as i have one of those airer things that can be hoisted up. Both rooms are invaluable, DH is a builder and the rooms were planned when we converted our barn. i consider myself extremely lucky to have them.

Mr_Proctalgia

I too have an ex council house with a pantry its about 3ft by six 6ft and goes partly under the stairs, it has a Terrazzo shelf that is always cool and pine shelves above and to one side. I tried to make it do "everything" when I first moved in but now it is strictly for dry foods and cans. The cleaning stuff lives with Mr Henry under the stairs.
As others have said it is amazing just how much stuff you can stash away in them, they seem to save much more cupboard space than they take up. I use mine for setting jellies, storing eggs, ripening HM sausages, cooling cakes and much much more.

They should be compulsory!!

Janey66

I live in a council house which has a pantry under the stairs, At the moments its full of junk, but after reading some of the post think i might store my food in there, so it'll leave me an extra cupboard space for other stuff

mocolo

Thistle-down wrote: »

I want to see some pantry pictures, especially Penelope Penguin's!

I second that- love to see pictures of any of them really.

I am a little sad today as I have realised that I can't have the ful mccoy because we need to extend the heating system to include a rad in a very cold downstairs loo and guess where the pipes have to travel? Yes, through my pantry! But I can still use it to store lots and I am still going use an existing marble slab.

pictures, pictures please.....

Ches

I NEED pp's pantry and whats more I WANT her victorian vicarage.