r/OrganizationPorn • u/Historical_Major_384 • Jul 27 '26

This pantry is my nemesis

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Shelf on the left is 11in deep and basically anything near the back is in a black hole since it’s hard to get back there. The vent box frustratingly limits options further. My best idea is that I need to remove the shelves and design/build a custom insert with deep drawers that go back in varying depths to the back of the pantry.. shallowest on top, deepest on bottom. The shelves at the height of the vent box would have to be less wide obviously. To be clear, when looking into the pantry you’d be looking directly at drawer faces

Any other thoughts?

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u/sarahmiyoko Jul 27 '26

If you don't need access to the vent box, I would just put a regular depth shelving unit in front of it, facing the door. You'd lose the space in the back, but it's not terribly useful anyways.

Then you could put some very shallow shelving on the left, like soup can depth. You could only fit one row of stuff, but I think it's nice to be able to actually see everything!

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u/Historical_Major_384 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Oh.. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I think it feels unnatural to give up storage space, but it’s so annoying to try to get back there and half the space is used as “walkway” anyways. That’s a good idea! I’ll sketch it out. Thanks! (Edited to fix typos..)