Go up and around both sides if you can. Store larger things on the floor against the wall. Make use of all the shelf space by stacking canned and boxed goods. Any containers or pots and pans and baking sheets inside each other to take up less room. Put less used things up high on shelves, you may need a step stool to get at them, but you don't use them that much anyway.
Also if possible hang one of those wire units on the pantry door. I have an old metal pie saver with 3 shelves and I keep my baking things there. But no matter what; a pantry because of its very nature of store/use. . . demands almost constant rearranging. Also I have hung cookie sheets, muffin tins etc on in my cellar way, because it is just really a cellar, not fancy. These cooking things do not lend themselves to stacking.
Edit:””” 3 years later😂 I decided to paint them white and I am so very pleased with the results!We bought a new house with these ugly cabinets. I really cann...
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Go up and around both sides if you can. Store larger things on the floor against the wall. Make use of all the shelf space by stacking canned and boxed goods. Any containers or pots and pans and baking sheets inside each other to take up less room. Put less used things up high on shelves, you may need a step stool to get at them, but you don't use them that much anyway.
Also if possible hang one of those wire units on the pantry door. I have an old metal pie saver with 3 shelves and I keep my baking things there. But no matter what; a pantry because of its very nature of store/use. . . demands almost constant rearranging. Also I have hung cookie sheets, muffin tins etc on in my cellar way, because it is just really a cellar, not fancy. These cooking things do not lend themselves to stacking.