Pantry Shelf Spacing

If your system is just to hold various oils together regardless of height you re probably going to end up with wasted space.

Pantry shelf spacing. Take advantage of the whole pantry. Allow 6 5 to 7 inches for a shelf of canned goods. A walk in pantry provides you with more length. The ideal overall depth of a reach in pantry with shelves is between 22 and 24.

To conserve space the eight shelves are just 1 2 inch taller than the jars they are meant to hold. I copied your pantry design for the 3 x4 storage closet in our townhouse. Allow 14 to 16 inches for cereal boxes. If the space available in your home is not that wide then the pantry shelving unit could be made taller but not as wide.

This allows 14 to 16 storage shelves inside the pantry and 7 to 8 of can and bottle storage built into the door. I used 16 shelving for the back wall and 8 shelving for the side wall so the shelving butts together instead of mitered corners. The best thing about this kind of shelving is that it is easy and simple to make. I have much more shelf space now and plan to alter the design.

Store like with like. Make shelves at eye level 12 to 14 inches deep and spaced 14 to 16 inches apart to fit cereal boxes and canisters. The next in our pantry shelving ideas list is simple walk in pantry shelving. If you design the shelving similar to the example above you will have more storage to store all your items.

Start with bottom shelves 16 to 18 inches deep and spaced about 18 to 24 inches apart for bulky items. 18 allows for a kitchenaid mixer or coffee maker no longer cluttering your kitchen counter plug it in right in the pantry ideally. If your waist height shelf doubles as a counter space you should plan for 18 between it and the next shelf up. But you can start to store things of similar height together.

Allow 18 to 20 inches for large items like bins of potatoes. The best reach in configuration we have found is the bat wing pantry. Fixed pantry shelves should have a maximum depth of 16 for storing larger items. If you have storage for baskets use it.

This pantry shelving unit looks like a bookcase but it was built to hold inexpensive quart canning jars and gallon jars. The 3 l brackets on the posts support the narrow shelves very well.