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Every home needs some form of kitchen-pantry-cabinet, whether it be a separate closet, a separate room in the basement, or pantry cupboards in the kitchen. Some people prefer to have a gentle slope to their hill, and others prefer to terrace the hill. Actually you can use both scenerios in different applications.
Since we have storage room in the basement, we decided to only put pantry cupboards around the fridge. The pantry around the fridge was an idea we got from our son's and daughter's homes. This gives us 2 deep pantry cupboards with 24 inch depth shelves from top to bottom. We do need “pull out” shelves for these shelves, in order to access things we store on the back of the shelves. Without pull-out shelves, we often waste 6 to 8 inches of space, simply because we can't see back there and consequently don't store anything that far back, or else it is often forgotten about in the back. Since cupboards are not made 30 inches in depth, and the fridge is 30 inches from front to back, we had to do some changes in installation of the pantry around the fridge. Some people prefer to have a gentle slope to their hill, and others prefer to terrace the hill. Actually you can use both scenerios in different applications.
In this case, we had the pantry units installed with the cupboards pulled out from the wall about 6 inches. The cupboard over the fridge is a 12 inch wide cupboard which is pulled out to the same frontage as the side cupboards. See the top of the following picture.
Since the cabinet doesn't go clear to the wall in back, there is a 6 inch space that there is nothing. It had to be covered on the one end vecause only one end was visible, the other being against the wall. The cabinet installers added a wooden end-skin on the visible end. It was made of a thin laminated wood sheet that matched our cupboards' wood grain and color. With a tiny trim molding put all around the edges, people have no idea what we did, unless we tell them. Only when you pull out the fridge, do you know that the pantry units don't go clear back to the wall. Having so much storage for food stuffs has been a wonderful addition to our kitchen. I highly recommend this type of arrangement of your kitchen-pantry-cabinet design. It makes for a little "custom" work, but hardly anything extra costwise. The pantry units do cost more than regular cupboards because so much more wood is involved. Also the pull out shelves cost more, but are totally worth every penny.
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