RobW wrote:
We just moved into a house that has a pantry with crappy metal
shelves. The pantry is about 7 foot wide, 18" deep (think closet).

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Just wondering - what kind of door(s) close the pantry from view?

Would you make the top shelves 12" and bottom ones 16" leaving the first
bottom shelf for a work surface where grocery bags could be deposited for
unloading?

Are you putting electricity in there? *

How tall is your wife? Can she reach what would be the top shelves? Need
to leave space on the floor for her to keep a step stool? Or big packages
of dog food?

Any of the shelves (probably mostly the upper ones) going to have a "step"
in the back so cans in back will be elevated and easy to see?

Josie

* Just saw a string of tiny Christmas-type lights enclosed in plastic
tubing used as light in a fancy glass front kitchen cabinet and was
surprised at how much light they threw and how unobtrusive the thin tubing
was.