If you have been thinking about installing a walk-in pantry lately, but you’re not sure if it will be worth it then you need to read this article. Improving and enhancing our homes will seldom be a waste of time or money. Some additions are a little trickier, like adding a swimming pool because these have running, and maintenance costs associated with them – not to mention that not everyone likes to swim!
Installing a pantry, however, is a once-off cost and you’re practically guaranteed that it will add to the value of your home. Below are five great reasons to install a pantry sooner rather than later:
- Increased Storage
Pantries are the rooms that dreams are made of. All of that space to organize your inventory, increase your storage ability, and keep your counter-top appliances in – it’s absolute heaven to someone who loves extra space.
The amount of new storage space will depend entirely on the type of pantry that you install – walk-in pantries and butler pantries will offer the most amount of extra space, at a price of course.
- More Kitchen Space
Once the bulk of your items has been moved into your gorgeous new pantry, you will have so much more room to breathe in your kitchen. One day when you’re trying to sell your home, this extra kitchen space will go a long way in helping to get you more money in the sale and take the pressure off of you so you can focus on the move.
- Adds Style
Pantries, particularly walk-in ones are simply bursting with style and sophistication. A butler pantry might be a room that makes you think of an older style home, but with a little modern touch, they can be such a stylish addition to your home.
Just think of how beautiful a pantry with internal bifold doors, a huge selection of white ceiling-to-counter shelves, and a wooden floor would be. With a polished marble or granite top to complete the look.
- More Modern
Even though walk-in pantries designs are nothing new, they do have a way of instantly turning your home into a modern masterpiece. Pantries help to organize your kitchen equipment, appliances, crockery, and groceries and that makes your space seem cleaner.
As with most new and modern things, they get to have a higher price tag. You can expect to spend around $4 000 installing a pantry, and you’ll get back about 75% of that as an added value to your home.
- Less Clutter
Kitchens, especially smaller ones, have a nasty habit of accumulating stuff. Not just any kind of stuff either, we tend to keep things that we think may come in handy one day in our kitchens. Things like pins, torches, lighters, candles, pegs, toothpick holders, you name it and it’ll probably be in someone’s kitchen right now.
Pantries offer neat storage solutions to avoid this build-up of clutter. This will go a long way when you are staging your home because cluttered homes, on average, get 10% to 15% less than their asking price.
Now is the best to renovate your home, before it gets too cold and before your guests arrive for the holidays.
