The SECRET Ingredient To Kitchen Design - The PANTRY! 

“And I don’t wanna hear from you minimalists that don’t have any shit! I know you’re hiding it somewhere. I know it’s there.” OMG, I actually cackled! 😂 Ma’am, you are a breath of fresh air, a cornucopia of design knowledge, and I absolutely *love* your sense of humour! I discovered your channel today, immediately became a subscriber, and I have since been binge-watching your content. Thank you for the fantastic content, Mrs Bianco! 💕

To each his own, but I've tried the whole decanting thing, and I found it to be a huge waste of time for little return. Sometimes the containers aren't quite big enough, or you've got a little left in one before you can put the new stuff in, so then you have the two things taking up space. Oh, and don’t forget to wash them in between! I don't have time for all that extra cleaning, especially on my precious day off from work that I've already spent doing something else I hate... grocery shopping! 😂 Food manufacturers are always changing the sizes (ex., the ounces) of their products too, (especially lately because they're greedy jerks) so the container you always used might be too big now. And bonus, if I've kept the old box of something and have bought a new box, I can see the difference in the ounces and just how much they *are* ripping me off! 🤨 Plus, I always felt the need to save the expiration date off the container the food came in, just in case, because time flies when you're having all this fun, and there's no way I'm going to remember when everything expires. Yes, I could take the time to make them with my label maker, or I'm sure they make special pens to write on the fancy containers, but that's yet _another_ thing to keep track of, along with something to wipe it off with, other than my hand untimely/accidentally smearing it off. And what if I needed the directions for cooking it...I would have to cut that out and save it, too. Ugh. All this, just so that a pantry that no one but my family sees, looks pretty? Nothing against anyone who likes to do it, but no thanks, not for me. Something always bothered me about all that extra plastic being put into the world, too. I mean, plastic is already being made to contain the food to begin with, and now we're creating more plastic to transfer it from _that_ plastic? I'm sure the manufacturers love marketing and selling these things to us that we don't _really_ need, but Mother Nature and future generations would probably like us to pass. Kudos to those that can fit all of their pantry essentials into canning jars. Bless you, but I cannot.

I'm remodeling my kitchen right now and building it for me and what I want

I just love all your videos! They are so helpful. Thanks!

OMG...I am so glad I found you...I just moved into my new house and I have no place for a pantry...I want to use the eat-in area but my husband likes the eat in area to stay that way but you just gave me a wonderful idea to add a pantry and still keep an area to set up a small table and 2 chairs for my hubby 😊

Brilliant! Nobody talks about this

I love the IDEA of shallow wall stud shelves, but they can’t be on outside walls or walls with heat ducts or plumbing running through them. That leaves 0” of wall space available in my kitchen to do this. My interior walls all have heating duct runs to the second floor or are on the hardest to reach wall behind the stove, or they have plumbing vent stacks and the chimney run through them. Another house that I looked at nearly 40 years ago before I bought this one had a wall that probably would have worked, but this kitchen does not.

Really helpful content Liz! Thanks so much!

Thank goodness for commonsense i have the most difficult a pantry to big wrongly sized shelves after seeing your advice i have the confidence to after Christmas dismantle it and resize the area now .thanks so much

Great advice! I dont hv a wall but that depth thing is a great pointer. Will see at redesigning our layout. Was going for the expensive manufactured unit but gotta chew my brains on it now. Thank you again!

I love your videos! So freakin practical as you slay all those pretty, cabinet-filled but not-functional-for-food-storage “pantries”! Please consider doing a video on how to design larger pantries for practical storage. I hear you about shallow shelves, but putting 8 inch shelving in an 7x10 panty seems silly. Ever put a big open lazy Susan in a pantry corner? I’m dying to see your ideas!!

Love this video- So practical!

I love this! What do you think about tall, thin, pull-out drawer-type things (with the open sides and side-bars to keep things from falling out)? These are the ones you load and unload through the sides of the pull-out thing. I don’t know what they are called, but I have a hunch they are the solution to 4-8” depth (sideways!) “shelves” that pull out from a 24” deep space. I’m thinking of using these in some parts of my tiny kitchen, because the entire kitchen is the size of some of the pantries you showed here 😆 The other idea (which I glimpsed in a few examples you showed) is a cabinet door with its own racks/storage built on the inside of the door. Similar to a refrigerator door having storage inside it. This makes the cabinet shelf shallower and lets you see what’s in there. The challenge is having hardware that lets the cabinet doors close properly and support the weight.

You've seriously got me thinking on how I can incorporate a pantry. It makes perfect sense. Do you have any recommendations for free standing pantries?

I don’t have 16” on center anywhere in my house. I have one stud shelf in my bedroom and had to massively improvise when I realized just how badly offset set the “center” was😭 Everyone thinks it’s cute but I had a major panic attack when I had to figure how to make symmetry happen after cutting into my dry wall 😂

My grandmother had a pantry in hew new house. Mom had one in our A-Frame.

I love this woman!

No, I have always shopped with glass containers for pantry items My glass containers are recycled bottles that would be 50 years old and I have a large supply of preserving jars again some 50 years If I do buy items in bags I generally save them to reuse. I have material flour bags again which I use to wrap my shoes in when travelling. So I have been reusing all my life. General if I am running out of a pantry item I would put it in a smaller container. Wash the original out and refill. And yes it works put small container in front of the one you have refilled so you see it

Love your true to life practical approach. No shit.

I was thinking this morning about the trend of using upper cabinets rather than lower. Why? Because they are shallow and take up less room. Also, i love my IKEA shelves in my utility room next to the kitchen

What about a small kitchen in an all concrete house? There's no drywall to crack open and reveal studs here.

Love this😂

I Looooooove your channel

I'm sorry have no beans I have dried beans

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Hey Liz, What the heck is the quick showing of the man in the shower?!!! A joke? I don't get it.

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I like your videos. Very helpful for me as an architectural designer. But why the nude guy subliminal messages?

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Very helpful - but what's with the continued flash of the hot guy standing in the shower? Is that an attempt at subliminal messaging?

I like your info but I don’t get the inclusion of a man in the shower leaning up against the wall! Also, the repeated gasp is, in a word, annoying. If you want to use it once in a video for emphasis, I can live with that but every few seconds, NO.

Great ideas and advice! Way too much talking; you can cut Out 10 min of just talking