| Corner Pantry Pros | Corner Pantry Cons |
| Corner pantries are more user friendly as compared to corner cabinets | A corner pantry can take up floor space, which is valuable space in a kitchen |
| You can store your broom and other long-handled cleaning tools in a corner pantry easily | You will left with less storage space |
| It does not cost much to build and install | It will take more time packing the corner shelves of the pantry |
| You will get enough space to store a small step ladder in order to reach those top cabinets | You will not be able to use the counter space |
| It can affect the flow of your kitchen | |
| Overpacking a corner pantry is an easy task |
Corner pantries are easy to use, provide a great spot for brooms and step ladders, and they are cheaper to build and install. However, they can minimize the floor and counter space, restrict the storage space, and can be overpacked easily. It is difficult to use the corner shelves and the kitchen flow is also compromised.
Pros of Corner Pantry
More User Friendly Compared to Corner Cabinets
You do not have to twist your back anymore or bruise your knees when you try to access the depths of your lower or upper corner cabinets to reach your grandmother’s heirloom glass bowl to make it ready for use when she visits.
Your kids do not need you to access the cookies off of the top cabinet shelf, as you can place them at on a lower shelf in pantry.
When you can view all your groceries while opening the door, there is a less chance to forget or lose things. You will save money this way as you will not purchase something double just because you could not see that the thing is already in your stock.
Ideal Place to Store a Broom
Whether it is spilled sugar, breadcrumbs, or shattered glass, accessing a broom with ease when you are in the kitchen is great. it will prevent you from the additional steps from walking outside, or to the basement to fetch the broom as a corner pantry provides you the desired height and space to store it where it is most required.
You could even increase the floor space in the pantry by putting a Mop Gripper and Command broom onto the inside of the pantry door. Your mop and broom will click into the grip with ease and be secured, so they won’t fall at night to frighten you.
Less Pricey to Build/Install
The cost of your average pantry will range from $700 to $3000 for parts and installation.
A corner pantry installation can be budget friendly. You can get one from Walmart that is already assembled and put it into the corner of your kitchen in less than $300.
You can also go for a flat pack that can be installed by yourself, easy on your pocket as compared to install cabinetry and countertops.
If you want to build or purchase your pantry door, you should be familiar with the pantry door sizing to get the ideal size.
Space to Store a Small Step Ladder
A small step can be helpful regardless of your need, whether it is for any upper cabinet in the kitchen or for the higher pantry shelves.
Sometimes it can be frustrating for you to fetch it from your basement and decide to reach the top of your countertops or lower shelving. This can damage your cabinetry as well as it is dangerous as well.
A corner pantry comes with a convenient spot for your step ladder. You can put it in the small foot space of your pantry to access it easily for the future use when you want to enjoy the top-shelf chocolates you hide from the children.
Cons of Corner Pantry
Can Consume Floor Space
If you install a corner pantry, you will be losing floor space as it will use usable space. The space behind the door and in front of the shelves is no longer used as floor space. Apart from your step ladder and broom, there are only a few things that you can store in front of those shelves.
This issue cannot be faced in a large kitchen, but in a small kitchen, it can be a make or break installation for you.
A compounding factor of the door needing floor space to swing outwards as inward swinging corner pantry doors are not realistic.
Less Storage Space
Whether you go for a corner pantry rather than a corner cabinet or a cabinet pantry, the corner pantry will not offer a similar storage space as the shelves will be a lot shallower and angled towards each other.
As a result, you will get less available space in order to store your food as well as cleaning items, which might compel you to overpack your pantry or put more products in another cabinet, to make that one unorganized and fuller.
Packing the Corners Can Be Difficult
When you have a corner pantry, it can be tricky to unpack your groceries quickly. You will try to fill up all the available space you can to maximize the storage space that you have, pushing each tin of corn against one another in order to use the corners.
It can become a nightmare to find something, as you are unable to see what is packed at the back of the pantry. My recommendation is to look into some convenient storage items that can make your life easier than this.
For all your condiments, you can use a Spice turntable to make your barbeque easier. Apart from that, you can also stack your spices and tins by using a Homeries 3-Tier Spice Rack so you can locate what you need with ease.
Lost Counter Space
A corner pantry installation indicates that you are using the floor plan where lower cabinets could go. A tidy spot may be available for your mop and broom, but you will lose the counter space (valuable one), which is never enough.
Before you finalize your decision, whether you need a corner pantry or not, think about how much you will be cooking and whether is it really worth getting rid of any amount of prep space. If you prefer ‘pop-it-in-the-microwave’, then it would not be a big deal to have a corner pantry.
Can Disrupt the Flow of the Kitchen (Aesthetics)
Installing a corner pantry would not only affect your pocket but it will also affect the kitchen’s aesthetics too.
If you have an open plan kitchen, with contemporary glass cabinet doors and shelving, having a corner pantry will make it inappropriate. They consume a lot of space which is the reason they can make your kitchen uncomfortably small.
We can have an argument that corner pantries are not completely obsolete yet, they are no longer compatible with the style and design of modern kitchens. Newer renovations are looking forward to walk-in pantries instead of corner pantries, even though walk-in pantries can be waste of space if installed or designed badly.
Easy to Over Pack
Your corner pantry can encompass everything that you want to remove from your sight. By closing the doors, you can hide everything and you might dodge yourself by falling can of beans as well.
Try to limit the number of items in your pantry that you use on a regular basis. To make your pantry less cramped, you should pack your box of Christmas cookie cutters in the basement so that you can use the space for your groceries as well as cleaning items.
The best way to fight this issue is by having designated spots or storage items for specific groceries. If you use the stackable can organizer to put your cans there, you can see what you need easily, and won’t get the temptation to over stack cans due to lack of space.
