POLL: Do you have a walk-in pantry?

Karen,

I noticed that you significantly changed/edited your reply. Why was that?

Interesting that you should need an explanation. I am recovering from a broken wrist that required extensive surgery, plus hardware installed in the wrist. While they were at it, carpel tunnel was fixed. You figure it out.
Don't you ever edit any of your posts?

Home invasion is still fairly unusual here as far as I know. Long may it stay that way.
I spent some time on Lord Howe Island a few years ago and they don't even lock their doors there. There is not any crime to speak of on the island ... with a population of fewer than 400, everyone there knows everyone else, and there is nowhere you can take anything if you pinch it because it's a tiny blob of rock surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean. That's what I call a safe community.

We are planning our next home now, hopefully to be built in 2010, and there will be a walk-in pantry adjoining the kitchen. There will also be a safe room, but more for tornados than home invaders (readily-accessible shotguns, etc will help take care of them ). Our pantry may or may not flow into the laundry room & mudroom, but will be near an outside door so that groceries can be put away quickly.

Walk in panties? You bet! (I hardly have a walk-in wine cellar, much less a pantry!)

Home invasion is still fairly unusual here as far as I know. Long may it stay that way.
I spent some time on Lord Howe Island a few years ago and they don't even lock their doors there. There is not any crime to speak of on the island ... with a population of fewer than 400, everyone there knows everyone else, and there is nowhere you can take anything if you pinch it because it's a tiny blob of rock surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean. That's what I call a safe community.

Matilda, that is what it was like on our visits to several of the San Juan Islands. I once saw a produce delivery truck drop off boxes of fresh produce at 6:30 am at the front of a grocery store. I saw the same fellow on the ferry later that day and asked him if anything ever gets taken. He looked at me rather surprised and said, No, where would they go?"

Speaking of home invasions, a very small community noted for historical buildings, plus a true cowboy community had a home invasion a night or ago about 10 minutes from where we live. The perps were looking for drugs and had mistaken the identity of the home owners. No one was hurt, physically, but they did tie them up. CA is having a problem with Mexican drug cartels, sorry to say.

Geez, Bill, I'll be having nightmares now.

[Jenise]

it is refreshing to hear about people such as yourself that adhere to reasonable budgets and not spending money like there is no tomorrow combined with zero regard for fiscal consequences.

Like me?

We're telling ourselves that we're not irresponsible, we're just a one-family local stimulus plan!

[Jenise]

(sorry, no etched glass door!) out of the kitchen that's stocked with whatever pantries are supposed to be stocked with. We like the separation and it's no problem to walk a few steps to the pantry.

The first time I saw one of those doors, I thought "how clever" because I presumed it to have been a custom feature the owner had specially made, and too it worked with their country decor. Since then I've seen them in homes that don't have that essential country feel, and I can't say that I thought it a good choice.

[Jenise]

2nd pantry area is laundry room just off the kitchen.

In our Huntington Beach home, I had two huge cabs just about like this in the laundry/mud room that separated the kitchen from the garage and I repurposed those as pantry space when we remodeled that kitchen. Worked out great, though like you I'd have still prefered a walk-in.