Houseoppo. Pantry is finally done*

[Pixel]

Finally got around to building a door frame, cutting down a door and installing it in the formerly jagged hole for the pantry I built back in March.

I actually used a door I'd bought for elsewhere in the house but which turned out to be the wrong width, plus some pine board and cheap trim.

Aside from fitting one piece of trim inside the pantry that I need to find a spare piece of board for, the building of this is officially over. Now it just needs the nail holes filled and a coat of paint (the inside was polyurethaned back in march).

Old photos:

This was the start, there was a dead space in the wall of my 1920's house (even before the metal chimney replaced the brick one). I hated knowing there was wasted square footage in a fairly small house, so I cut it open and built out walls and shelves with Baltic Birch.

Instead of framing it normally and losing depth to the framing, I installed strips of birch plywood to the back of the two studs closest to the chimney (but still more than the required 2" clearance away), then nailed the back wall panel to them, then the sides were added.

The two wall studs defined my door opening width., but were different thicknesses (I feel like half this house was built with offcuts), so it took a bit of jiggering to get the space inside enclosed completely. The shelves are unevenly spaced on purpose to better fit certain items.

[frinesi2]

@pixel very nice. I like the idea of eeking out every bit of usable space.

[functionoverfashion]

Excellent pantry, I have found that a pantry shouldn’t be very deep or else you lose stuff in the back. Ours (not by my design) is just 12” deep but it’s about right. 36” wide though.

[Pixel]

@functionoverfashion Someone I know with a deep pantry recently made horseshoe shaped shelves for that exact reason. I thought that was brilliant.

[functionoverfashion]

@pixel said in Houseoppo. Pantry is finally done*:

@functionoverfashion Someone I know with a deep pantry recently made horseshoe shaped shelves for that exact reason. I thought that was brilliant.

Yeah, that is the other way to go about it. Even with our 10" deep shelves stuff can kind of get lost in there.

We didn't plan it that way, but when we bought our house there was a very awkwardly shallow closet with coathooks in it. That didn't last long, we turned an entire 12x10 room into our mudroom/coatroom and the closet became the pantry.

[Urambo Tauro]

@frinesi2 said in Houseoppo. Pantry is finally done*:

I like the idea of eeking out every bit of usable space.

An approach that I appreciate much more in houses than in engine bays!

[Pixel]

@urambo-tauro Yeah, at least i never have to change spark plugs on my house.

[Brickman]

@pixel The metal chimney doesn't get warm? Dont want to cook all your pop tarts and stroopwafels at one time

[Pixel]

@brickman nope. It is double walled and only needs a 2" clearance (i think it ended up having just over 3"). The chimney itself doesn't get noticably warm in operation.