I found the perfect pantry!

On our final build, we have a walk-in butler pantry with a pass-through to the kitchen plus a space to slide the coffee pot & toaster back out of view.

I’d plan to do some BTS shelving too with the neat and clean look of EZStudRack, and still may. I was going to have a photo slide to hide the between the studs shelving on cabinet bottom sliders turned sideways that I took, and had printed on canvas of one of our neighbor’s Highland cows. I never have my own photos printed for me and this by far is the largest. It would hide the lesser used shallow items BTS, and may still, but for now that is on the wait and see if I still need that space.

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So, I’ve spent hours and hours online and even drove to Charlotte to Ikea to find shelves for the pantry. They had some shelves that would work but the deeper ones came with doors I didn’t want or need.

My talented hubby can build them but I’ve wanted white and I don’t like how cans seem to stick to painted shelves. I could’ve done melamine or laminate like Closetmaid but didn’t love the look and they were not deep enough anyway. I also considered garage-type shelves like one line of Homedant REIBII or Gladiator, but it wasn’t until I saw the flat finished metal over the T holes that sealed the deal. I needed at least the bottom to be 16.5 deep for my FIFO organizers. (LOVE THESE) I bought the cheaper one first but the sizes were not as customizable (and short on dowels) and they couldn’t stack so I went to the one shown first that fit more can sizes and increase in increments of 10″.

Nothing was just right until I found Homedant Home and Kepsuul.

I chose Kepsuul because of the width and height over Homedant Home and for the fact that it is possible to order extra shelves directly from them. Kepsuul. comes in white or black, both with “wood” shelves. Kepsuul. does over sides and backs in different colors too. I think I’m going to add wood crates here and there and just put felt on the bottoms.

Kepsuul. lets you put the side rails in with the shelf on top or you can flip them over like a basket. Homedant Home lets you do the same plus flip the back or front one way to hold things from falling off or from going over the back. I tried that with the Kepsuu but the height difference on the shelf was about 1/8″ off.

I ordered 3 Five shelf Kepsuu units and liked them so much I decided to do our master closet with them also and ordered more plus some of their rack and shelf units and a smaller 16″ Five shelf . Now it will still be months before these can go in the house. I typically unbox everything and check what I ordered way ahead of time but after unboxing one of these and putting it together there is now way I’m unboxing all of them to check because I’ll never get them back in the box to stack and moving them to the new house would be a lot harder. On the one I did unbox and put together one shelf had a corner messed up. I’m hoping that the company will stand behind all that I’ve purchased even if it’s a few months until I open all the boxes.

It says customizable on the box and that’s a good word, better than adjustable shelves but it is more difficult than pulling 4 pins out of holes and adjusting a shelf. The box comes with a rubber mallet and it’s needed.

So Kepsull for the win and for a pantry I think I’m going to love.

I’ll pop in more after we quit working 6 days a week and of course, I’ll follow up with a finished pantry photo along with some other house photos. I ordered most of the tile this week too, but had to stop on some online ordering and working at the house to go out checking all the granite and countertop places to get that locked in since all the cabinets have been ordered with delivery scheduled. Plus again it’s that time of year I have to get all of our paperwork organized for taxes.

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