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.

It had 5 shelves from ceiling to floor and was so deep. You could store a lot of stuff in there, but you couldn't get to over half of it with out pulling a bunch of stuff off of the shelves.

We searched for solutions and were dismayed at the wasted spaces they left in the pantry. So I designed a lazy susan pantry cabinet with 6 shelf and they fit into the back shelves. This design used all the space in the closet.

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.

We needed to make the Lazy Susan large so that we could reach into the back of the pantry. We decided to make the lazy susan shelf a half semi circle with the pivot point at the front of the pantry door.

We needed to mount the lazy susan at the front of pantry entrance so that it would clear the closet door as it swung around. Once this point was found we mounted a 5/8 inch pillow block bearing to the top inside of the pantry door and hung a plum bob from it to the point marked at the front center of the closet 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.

We reviewed the design and determined to proceed. We decided that the best color to paint the inside of the closet is a solid white color so that it would make it easier to find items on the back shelves. We decided to stain all the oak plywood panels a natural oak color.