Pantry in the apartment with your own hands - if there is no utility room
As the apartments are rarely shaped like a regular rectangle, in corridors and hallways you can often find quite cozy niches where the armchair or even the hanger with the shelf for shoes fits perfectly. And if you go further? There is hardly any better use for such a hidden corner, except to make a small storage room with your own hands. To do this, you will only need an interior door, several beams for the frame, to get an opening of standard sizes, as well as drywall, so as a result, it was pleasant to look at the partition.
Of course, it is best if the niche is in the immediate vicinity of the kitchen, then the products will always be at hand at the hostess. If there are no places in the corridor for a utility room, it is worth considering how to equip the storage room directly in the kitchen. If the kitchen is spacious, it is possible to fence off the corner, just as it would have been done in the bedroom to create a dressing room for
Repair in the pantry is a prerequisite for sanitation
Due to the fact that in a closed space without windows it is always gloomy even in the presence of lighting, repair in the pantry is best to begin with painting the walls and ceiling in one of the colors of the warm palette. The lighter the tone, the better. Surfaces are covered with enamel, including the ceiling, only on the floor it is better to put a thick linoleum, which is easy to clean even from jam, if you are not lucky enough to break the jar. The door and jambs, too, will not interfere with the renovation, but at the same time make sure that there are no gaps around the latter. Bottom lay the sill, so that the door closes tightly around the perimeter of the opening.
Sometimes it may be necessary to redo the pantry, especially if it used to have hooks, shelves and clothes boxes, and you want food racks. In this case, you need to remove all the old fasteners, cover the holes from the screws with putty, and better plaster the walls, then paint. Pay attention to the vent, if it goes into the shaft, you need to close it with a fine metal mesh, and pull the second one out of synthetic fibers, with even smaller cells on top. Here, in general, and the entire alteration of the pantry, it remains only to hang shelves or to establish racks.
How to make a pantry with your own hands - practical advice
You can remodel the pantry in three ways, you can order racks with a metal frame, make such a frame yourself from a square metal profile or simply hang the brackets under the shelves. If the rack is frameless, the thickness of the boards should be at least 20 millimeters, and where you will put heavy large objects, you need boards from 30 millimeters .The brackets( or racks of the rack) should be mounted every half a meter, so that the boards do not bend over time.
To keep ventilation between the shelves, do not place them close to the wall, leave a small gap, within 1-3 centimeters.
The depth of the shelves should be no more than 70 centimeters, adjust this parameter on the principle of an outstretched arm for your convenience. On the upper shelves, about 25 centimeters high, it is more convenient to put small items, and leave the lower shelves for overall boxes and bags. Do not fill the entire space with racks, taking off the large-sized item from the shelf, you still have to turn around and take it out. So, before making a storage room with your own hands, in the calculations provide for a passage between two rows of shelves, not less than 70 centimeters wide. Do not forget about the backlight, which can be made not only common, but for each shelf separately.
