DIY Pantry Organization Ideas

Has pantry organization got you stumped? We have the DIY smart solutions to your pantry problems. Check out our discussion boards, video tutorials, slideshows, and best projects. This is the place to get tips, hacks, and inspiration to turn your pantry into a functional and beautiful part of your kitchen. Let's get started!

DIY Pantry Can Organizer

Make Your Pantry Easy to Use

Create different sized spaces: Keep everything neat by making spaces for different sized objects. A pantry will typically hold a wide variety of diverse products.
Remove the door for more space: Taking off the door to your pantry could add light and space. There's no need to feel cramped when this is an easy job to carry out.
Add wire racks to the doors: Turn the back of a door into a useful place for storing small objects. Hang a basic wire rack on here to give you some extra options.
Arrange items by type and size: Take some time to plan how to group together similar objects. Organizing by type or size will save you time when looking for things.
Focus on the most used items: Place the items you use most frequently where you can most easily get to them. Anything that doesn’t get regular use can be placed elsewhere.

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Top Pantry Organization Projects

Our top pantry organization projects for you to get ideas for your pantry makeover.

DIY Pantry Can Organizer

Look, I get it. We have kids too. Typically things are in complete disarray, but isn't it kind of nice to be able to have some areas of your home that are semi-organized?Take your pantry or food storage for example. There's something about opening up a pantry that is staring back at you organized and you're like ... Oh. Oh yes. Praise him high and low. Don't feel bad, we all gotta start somewhere! Like here:

Carmen Smith

Hide-Away Pantry / Kitchen Storage

Get ready for a GAME changer! This is literally changing my life! Haha ok maybe not so dramatic, but this hide-away pantry is an amazing storage alternative that will open up some cabinet space!!! This kitchen storage is made by creating a slim sliding shelving unit for the space between your wall and refrigerator. It's amazing what a little wood and paint will do!

Amanda C, Hometalk Team

How To Build Pantry Shelves

What could be better than floor-to-ceiling shelving in a pantry or closet? It is the best way to maximize storage in a small space. We recently built a pantry in our fixer upper home and we learned a lot of great tips along the way. We want to share those tips with you! First we attached wood furring strips to the wall, making sure to screw into the studs in at least two places on each board. Then we cut MDF shelving down to size and screwed them into the wall brackets from above.

Jennifer {The Craft Patch}

Deep Narrow Pantry Organization

We have a deep, narrow pantry cabinet which makes it easy for things to get lost. I couldn’t stand digging through the pantry trying to find items. Or worse, forgetting about something back there and having it expire before we were able to use it. Cue our pantry kitchen cabinet organization project!

Montross Made

DIY Space Saving Rolling Kitchen Pantry

Our cabinet space is limited in our tiny kitchen. But we did have 8 inches of unused space beside our fridge. So we built a rolling pantry to hold all our canned goods and dry food!

DIY Passion

Wall Pantry Storage Solution

The kitchen in our new home has very little cabinet space . The one larger double cabinet is too high for me to reach anything that isn't up front on the bottom shelf ! I needed a way to be able to store and access my dry goods . I decided to use some empty wall space to put in a wall pantry.

Pamela

Converting Bifold Doors to Double Doors With Storage

I recently converted my pantry from a large single door to double French-style doors using bifold doors. I also added spice racks to the back. Here’s how you can do the same!

Amanda

You HAVE to see the before! Can you guess what happened to the hot water heater?

When I posted this project I went back to find a before picture. I couldn't even believe it. I had forgotten what it looked like. When we bought the farmhouse in 2009, I fell in love with the kitchen and the attached butler's pantry. It was dark and dreary and wallpapered from celing to floor, but I knew. I knew that it could be so much more than a dark dreary space. For more details....check out....http://www.thistlewoodfarms.com/the-new-butlers-pantry

Thistlewood

Turning A Wardrobe Into A Pantry!

I actually found this wardrobe for free! A lovely elderly couple needed to get rid of it and I was more than happy to take it off of their hands!

Bryan's Workshop

DIY Pantry Can Organizer

Carmen Smith

Hide-Away Pantry / Kitchen Storage

Amanda C, Hometalk Team

How To Build Pantry Shelves

Jennifer {The Craft Patch}

Deep Narrow Pantry Organization

Montross Made

DIY Space Saving Rolling Kitchen Pantry

Our cabinet space is limited in our tiny kitchen. But we did have 8 inches of unused space beside our fridge. So we built a rolling pantry to hold all our canned goods and dry food!

DIY Passion

Wall Pantry Storage Solution

Pamela

Converting Bifold Doors to Double Doors With Storage

I recently converted my pantry from a large single door to double French-style doors using bifold doors. I also added spice racks to the back. Here’s how you can do the same!

Amanda

You HAVE to see the before! Can you guess what happened to the hot water heater?

Thistlewood

Turning A Wardrobe Into A Pantry!

I actually found this wardrobe for free! A lovely elderly couple needed to get rid of it and I was more than happy to take it off of their hands!

Bryan's Workshop

Pantry organization slideshows sure to whip your pantry into shape.

Pantry Organization Videos

Peruse our collection of DIY video tutorials on pantry organization projects.

No Kitchen Pantry? Upcycle an Old Bookshelf Into THIS!

If you're tired of cramming food into your pantry, and then having to unpack every shelf to find the item you're looking for, then you are not alone!I was so tired of having too little pantry space, but I wasn't in the market for a pantry expansion or buying new cabinetry. Instead, I I spotted an old bookshelf and had a spark of inspiration.Here's how I turned an old bookshelf into the extra pantry space I needed. The best part of this little functional flip? It's not just a space-booster, it's a style-booster too, thanks to some chicken wire and farmhouse fairy dust!Check out the video for more how-to's!

Abbie M

Lazy Susan Dividers Using One Office Supply

If your Lazy Susan is anything like mine, it’s a mess.

Alicia W

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Make Your Pantry Easy to Use

Create different sized spaces

Remove the door for more space

Add wire racks to the doors

Arrange items by type and size

Focus on the most used items

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