Design your own pantry kitchen lazy susan.

by: BruceContryman
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Our pantry cabinet design began after my wife got fed up with trying to reach and find items in the back of our storage closet.

The closet had 5 shelves from ceiling to floor and was 23 inches deep. You could store a lot of stuff in there, but couldn't get to it with out pulling items off of the shelves.

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.

Our pantry closet is 27" wide at the back and 41" wide at the front, 23" deep, and 76 inches high. The closet is very large and can hold a lot of food 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.

The trick was to find the center of pantry entrance and still clear the pantry door as the Lazy Susan swung around. Once I found this point I mounted a 5/8 inch pillow block bearing to the top inside of the pantry door to make all other measurements. I hung a plum bob from the pillow block bearing to the point I marked on the floor as the center of the pantry door.

I would suggest that you make a poster board template of the pantry floor to make all your measurements and drawings. Each shelf has a different dimension so make sure you know the largest and smallest dimensions. You should be able to come up with one set of dimensions that will work for all shelves. The shelves can then be cut to the smallest dimension and they should fit in any location.

We reviewed the design and determined to proceed. We decided that the best color to paint the inside of the closet is a solid white color so that it would make it easier to find items on the back shelves. We decided to stain all the oak plywood panels a natural oak color.

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Do you have a big kitchen pantry cabinet that you keep food items in but can never find what you need? Then see our pantry cabinet., or our lazy susan pantry, on how to design your own pantry.  

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