| How to design your own pantry cabinet lazy susan. | | Print | |
| Written by Bruce Contryman | ||||||
| Tuesday, 22 July 2008 | ||||||
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Our pantry cabinet design begun when my wife and I ultimately got sick and tired with the problem of reaching to find items in the back of our kitchen pantry storage unit.
Our pantry cabinet design begun when my wife and I ultimately got sick and tired with the problem of reaching to find items in the back of our kitchen pantry storage unit. It had 5 shelves from floor to ceiling that were so deep you could store a lot of stuff, but couldn't find any thing with out emptying half of the shelf. We checked at all the local hardware stores and were not happy with all the wasted spaces they left in the cabinet. I talked with my son and wife about a 6 shelf Lazy Susan pantry cabinet design with back shelves that used all the space and wasted very little. The pantry cabinet is 76 inches high, 23" deep, 27" wide at the back and 41" wide at the front. The pantry is large and can hold a lot of storage items. We needed to make the Lazy Susan large so that we could reach into the back of the pantry. We decided to make the lazy susan shelf a half semi circle with the pivot point at the front of the pantry door. We had to find the center of pantry entrance and still clear the pantry door as the Lazy Susan pivoted. After we found this point we mounted a 5/8 inch pillow block bearing to the top inside of the pantry door. We hung a plum bob from the center of this bearing above the front center of the pantry door to the point marked on the floor. You should make a template out of poster board of the pantry cabinet floor to make your measurements and drawings. Each shelf may have an unequal dimension as the walls are not square, so determine the largest and smallest size. You need one set of dimensions that will work for all shelves. The shelves can then be cut to the smallest size and they should fit in any place. My wife, my sons and I decided to paint the inside of the pantry a white color so that it would be bright and easy to find items on the back shelves and the lazy susan shelves. We wanted to used all oak plywood panels and stain them a natural oak color. Article Author: Do you have a big kitchen pantry closet that you keep food items in but can never find what you want? Then see our pantry cabinet., or our lazy susan pantry, on how to design your own pantry.
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