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How to design a lazy susan pantry cabinet.

By: Bruce Contryman

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.

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.

I decided to make the lazy susan as a one half semi circle shelf with the pivot post at the front of the closet door. I wanted to make the Lazy Susan shelves as large as possible so that we all could reach into the back of the pantry easily.

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.

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.

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Do you have a big kitchen pantry cabinet that you keep dry goods in but can never see what you want? Then check out our pantry cabinet., or our lazy susan pantry, on how to design your own pantry.

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