Floor plan recommendation from you

So we definitely need a pantry. We don't want to do without it! There are several reasons for this. Firstly, it is cheaper for me to build a thin wall and install a door than to buy more kitchen cabinets—at least 3 more tall cabinets. Secondly, it is more organized to store and find things on various narrow shelves than in a 60cm deep cabinet. Thirdly, the pantry will not only hold small supplies but also milk cartons, beverage crates, potatoes, onions, and definitely spare batteries, light bulbs, etc. And fourthly, we only do a big grocery shop once a week. We don't like spending our free time in the supermarket. But to each their own!

@milkie Yes, you are absolutely right. I am completely on your side here, but I also think about the architecture of the room and whether with a bit more money one could plan a slightly larger kitchen. A lot of things fit in there too :-)

I would have also liked to have a "pantry". A separate shelving room where all the electrical appliances and supplies have space. But our floor plan did not allow it. Yet we planned a completely individual and open floor plan. So now, at least in the utility room, we have kept an entire long side of 3.30 meters free from all the technology, so that kitchen cabinets and shelves have space here. And you can still move around in the utility room. Some stubbornly cling to a pantry and, due to the lack of space, can no longer properly pass the counter, or the kitchen then lacks "structure", or they can no longer furnish it properly. The pantry is usually wrongly arranged in its wall niches, so that a) it is not walk-in or b) 20 cm "deep" shelves along the length do not offer reasonable storage space. My grandma had a pantry cabinet, 60 x 60 in the kitchen corner, but everything was there and you didn’t have to crawl in ;) In hindsight, it was better than some pantry rooms of 3 sqm floor space that you find here :D

We currently have a cabinet with a depth of 60 cm, a width of 50 cm, and a height of 2.20 m. It is terrible because most of the time you just stuff everything in. Or what you need is all the way in the back and you can't reach it. I find it simply much too confusing. I would rather have a small pantry with shelves where I can already sort everything and where I can always reach everything. And where you can store unnecessary appliances and drinks that you otherwise just hide in the kitchen cabinets. Kitchen cabinets are nice and all, but mostly somehow clearly much less practical than an extra pantry.

We currently have a cabinet with a depth of 60 cm, a width of 50 cm and a height of 2.20 m. That's terrible because most of the time you just stuff everything in. Or what you need is all the way at the back and you can't reach it. I just find that way too confusing. I'd rather have a small pantry with shelves where I can already sort everything and where I can always reach everything. And where you can store unnecessary appliances and drinks that you would otherwise just hide in the kitchen cabinets. Kitchen cabinets are nice and all, but most of the time they are somehow definitely less practical than a separate pantry.

A widespread phenomenon in the art of packing: My mom can fit more in the trunk of her MX 5 than I can in my SUV :D

Can only agree with you. At the moment, we also have huge kitchen cabinets but no pantry. It's a mess. The bowls and plates you need right now are always guaranteed to be at the very back. You constantly fly over the bottles, you can never get to the electrical appliances or they are in the way, the fruit has to go in the fridge because otherwise there would be no more space, and the baking ingredients fall on you when you have to dig the ones in the back to the front. That's why we deliberately planned the pantry to be not too small (6m²). You can store the essential things in the cabinets at the front there, and the clutter that otherwise stands in the way goes into the pantry.