Do You Have Your Kitchen Pantry in the Next Room?

If you mean a real walk in pantry I've never had one so I can't help you. It seems strange to me how many people on here have one. I have friends with some very nice homes but off the top of my head I can't think of single family I know that has a walk in pantry. There aren't ANY housing developments here and if you live in a brand new house it's totally custom built. Land here is super expensive and a very modest home is easily a million or more. Things like a pantry are pretty low on a home buyers list.

I guess it's all relative to what you know. Around here we're happy to trade square footage and fewer bells and whistles in order to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

My first house did not even have a pantry. My husband and I did not notice until we moved in. I still don't know where the previous owner kept their pantry items.
When we remodeled the kitchen (which was fairly small although it was an eat-in kitchen) we just used 2 of the cabinets for the items we most frequently used. The rest we stored in storage shelves in the basement. It was fine.

My FAVORITE house ever had the pantry in the mud room.
So.
Perfect.

Enter dripping wet, or slushy, with groceries and get rid of both in the same space.

I'm something of a cooking fiend... And it was just fine.
I don't cook out of my pantry (unlike the fridge).
I store things in the pantry.
When I'm using stored items in a recipe, I grab everything out at the beginning.

Another thing that was nice about the mud room was that it let me dou le check my shopping list as I was leaving the house.

Sigh.

I really miss that house!

(How the layout went was
Side entry
Mud room / cloak room
Kitchen
Dining

It did have a washer dryer in it, for stripping and lobbing stuff directly in from the beach... But it also had laundry up in the master bath, which was what I used most of the time. Except for the dog. I washed the dog down in the mudroom, and then gated him in until he dried.

I swear, It's almost an orgasmic kind of lust, that I miss that layout. SO perfect for a busy family who wants the rest of the house clean and orderly.

About 10x10, then pass through pantry into the kitchen.

Why don't you build a pantry in the kitchen and then your dream one somewhere else? We have a pantry in our kitchen and I would go nuts if I had to go out of the kitchen for what is in there. Still the bulk of our pantry items are downstairs.

So in the kitchen is what we use every day and what we need for the week, everything else is downstairs.

I'm having pantry envy right now.. just saying'..... you don't know how lucky you are!

My husband converted our garage into two bedrooms, a small workshop, and a pantry.... it is right off the kitchen, and is WONDERFUL!!!

Mine is like a large walk-in closet with shelves on two sides, and pegboard on the back wall... I keep my pots and pans on the pegboard, and there is plenty of shelf space for food, games, books, cleaning supplies, all kinds of junk.

My kitchen is the typical small "galley" style kitchen you see in most ranch style homes, and the door to the garage (now bedrooms and pantry) is right there.

It never bothered me to just step around the corner and get the items I need. He built that in 1993 for me, and I've loved having such a roomy pantry!

The house we moved into has its pantry just off the kitchen (around the corner). It's no problem at all. Of course, though, never having had one before, I have nothing to compare it to. This pantry is large enough to put a twin bed in with shelves along both sides of the walls and a window at the end of the "room". It also has a door. I love having it away a bit from the kitchen... after all, it is a storage room for extras. Have fun with your new home. I'm envious of those who get to build their home to their specs.

I live in a huge house with a beautiful, tricked out, almost brand new kitchen and I don't have a pantry at all!
I do have a large floor to ceiling cabinet with slide out shelves that serves as a pantry. All of our bulk, staple items go below (pasta, rice, beans, canned goods, bottled water/juice, etc.) and everything else fits perfectly above.
So you could do something like that.
It works for us! We are a family of five, two adults and three teens, a dog & a cat :-)

I actually really loved having my pantry next to, instead of in, my kitchen. It was much easier to organize for me. It's not too much of a pain, because it's only what, 5-10 steps more to get something. :) plus, it gave me more space in the kitchen to have my cooking gear handy instead of having to dig through everything because it was crammed into three cupboards.

my pantry is downstairs, which is pretty inconvenient.
but not the end of the world. if you can have one right at hand, it's terrific, but i wouldn't distort a great floor plan to accommodate one.
khairete
S.

I use my pantry a lot so I don't think I would like it in another room and it would be a negative selling point if I were looking at a house and the pantry was in a different area.

We have a large house and a dream kitchen area. We do have a walkthrough to the formal dining area with the butler pantry which is extra counter space and cabinets. My pantry is a separate room in the butler pantry area. It is huge... It is one reason I did say yes to this particular house plan when we were building. My pantry is the size of a huge walk in closet with 3 sides shelved. It looks like a mini grocery store. I do keep it well stocked with at least a 6 month supply of canned and dry goods. A repairman was here once and he told me he could send his wife to my pantry to shop because it was so large and stocked. I like it that way.

My 19 yr old "shops" when she comes home to visit as well. Her condo has a small floor to ceiling closet for a pantry and she told me that although she loves her condo, it is hard to get used to not having my pantry.

The first house we built had a closet, relatively small, with floor to ceiling storage that I use for my pantry and it was in the kitchen.

That's just my two cents. Have fun building your house... We've done it twice and it is a he$$ of a process but always glad when it is completed.

Ours is between our kitchen and dining room, it's a butler pantry with a small counter area just outside and across from the pantry door. It's not a problem at all to go back and forth.

Mine is in my laundry room off the breakfast nook. It is right off of the kitchen and is not a pain to go back and forth.

I don't have a pantry at all. I would give me eye teeth for space in another room to have one, and wouldn't mind going back and forth. If I have excess canned goods, I have to store them on my kitchen counter next to the microwave. It looks unsightly, and takes up counter space.

I think it depends on your area. The person below me said she has never had one and can't think of anyone who does. I'm opposite, every house in my area has one, most walk-in, very large ones. I would prefer it to be directly in my kitchen like my last house was. My newer, larger home has the laundry room right off the kitchen, and the pantry is included in there. Not my ideal situation, but works fine and it's huge. I would not like to walk somewhere else to get food from the pantry and I think putting it away after going to the store would be a problem. JMO. Good luck.!

I don't have a pantry at all so I don't think it would be a huge pain nor would it necessarily be a detractor if you're selling in the future. My entire "pantry" fits in the 4 cabinets (two cabinets with two doors each) in my main kitchen. And I cook for 6 people every day and am a baking fiend. There's really only so much food that you need at the ready when cooking - if you have adequate cabinet space in your kitchen, the pantry in an adjacent room is just fine.

In my old house, I actually had NO CABINETS at all in the kitchen (and no sink - really!). Not one LOL. How I failed to notice this when buying the house is beyond me - but it certainly explained how light and airy the kitchen felt! I did have an adjacent area that had the sink and some cabinets so I guess that was the pantry. That was a bit of pain because I had no food within reach in the kitchen itself and had to go back and forth for every freaking dried ingredient but it was manageable.

Depends on how far away we are talking. We have one adjacent to our kitchen that is in the walk through area between kitchen and powder room. So technically not in the kitchen (since it is through an open doorway), but no issues at all using.

I would not have one in a different room. That's just not good thinking. Every person that comes in that house when it eventually goes on the market will take one look and not buy it due to one thing. A pantry goes in the kitchen unless it's like a butler's pantry and between the dining room and kitchen.

If it's a butler's pantry then it holds so much more. Like the stemware, the china, linens, even a small wine fridge, the table leaf, extra chairs can even be stored in it, and of course the food that one doesn't want in the kitchen.