I wonder how many of us have used the various lockdowns and shelter in place orders due to the Covid-19 virus to clean out or repurpose at least one closet. In my case, it was the pantry. Late in the building process, I had the opportunity to share the pantry space between groceries, staples, and cookware on one side and on the other side, the audio/video and communications hub. Very old school meets high tech. At least, that was how it was supposed to be.
I had requested that a closet storage system called Easytrack be used in the appropriate larger closets and the pantry. Final results in the pantry were an uneven mix of the Easytrack 6 foot corner shelving and them painting and using smaller pine boards for shelving. They really limited access to the wall mounted A/V Rack because they didn’t understand it’s intended use. The pantry space was due an upgrade to make it hold more and possibly make it more usable.
Took a while to get some Easytrack Shelves in 3 foot length delivered through an online source. I took the original 6 foot corner cabinet sides and cut them in half. Moved the angle iron that holds the shelving to the wall much higher up in the pantry and made the angle iron mounting groves in the newest 3 foot sides that I’d just created with the cuts. I can actually walk under these cabinets now and it allows for so much space below. Added the rolling black wire shelving that fits against the wall below the upper white shelving. Hoping that it will be no effort to roll out the baking supply rack and have everything for baking close at hand without repeated trips to the pantry.
The black wire rolling racks will allow me to move them out easily when I get to the A/V Hub finalization. I have proof of concept for most of what I was attempting to accomplish with the centralized A/V Hub and need to move forward on that project now that I know where my access hole to the crawl space will be.
Here is the other side of the pantry – another project I hope to tackle before the weather gets cold.
