Slim Pantry Cabinets

What We Like: Adjustable shelves

Perfect For: Storing heavy items

Crafted from high-quality engineered wood, it comes with a sleek, traditional white finish that adds a touch of charm to your home. The upper cabinet features two glass-paneled doors and three long shelves, while the lower section has double doors providing out-of-sight storage. With ten shelves, you can keep food and condiments organized, and the adjustable shelf means you can accommodate small appliances.

Monochrome minimalist designs make it easier to match your slim storage cabinet to the rest of your kitchen furniture.

Plus, a streamlined design is a versatile choice for several interior styles: not only minimalist but contemporary, Scandinavian, and, when opting for natural wood and metal, industrial, too.

If you don’t think you’ll need that many shelves or are worried that your taller items won’t fit in traditional pantry models, you can also look for narrow kitchen cabinets with two compartments.

Alternatively, they’re super practical if you were hoping to combine them with a pull-out storage solution, too.

What We Like: Shuttered doors improve air circulation

Perfect For: Narrow spaces

Made of top-grade P2 MDF and particleboard with a melamine surface, this skinny kitchen cabinet is the perfect storage solution for wasted wall space in your compact kitchen. Its adjustable upper shelf ensures that it can handle items of varying sizes, while its open compartments and double-door cabinet offer plenty of space for easy kitchen organization. The magnet switch helps keep the doors firmly closed when not in use.

What We Like: Four tiers of storage

Perfect For: Narrow spaces between cabinets and appliances

This 4-tier slim storage cart is perfect for narrow spaces in your home. The robust construction provides excellent stability, and the high-quality ABS plastic basket racks are corrosion, abrasion, and heat-resistant. Each shelf is 2.63” deep and can hold up to 11 lbs. of weight, optimizing your storage space. With convenient rollers and a flexible 360° rotation, it’s easy to store household items and simplify your living space.

Is your kitchen a bit too narrow? Then look for even more space-saving designs like 8- or 6-inch-deep pantry cabinets.

We especially recommend the former if you’d like to store some 8-inch dinner plates and the latter for smaller items like canister sets, jars, and bottles. 

8-inch-wide cabinets (or even thinner!) will fit virtually anywhere in your kitchen.

While traditional open shelves or cupboards are still popular options, keep in mind that drawers are the most practical storage solution to optimize a slimmer but deeper cabinet. 

While open shelves have their own charm, slim kitchen cabinets with a closed design are your best friends if you hate clutter and would rather keep your food items and kitchen equipment behind some cupboards.

But why not add a drawer too? This design is ideal to store items that you tend to pile up, like table cloths, or to get a good one-glance overview of lots of smaller ones, like spices.

Did you know that you could find deeper cabinets that are less than 6-inch wide?

This magical trick will allow you to utilize that wasted space in between your stove and another piece of furniture.

By choosing a cart-style cabinet with wheels, you can keep your less glamorous items out of sight but always at hand.

Unless you’re planning on placing your thin pantry cabinet on the opposite side of your kitchen, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to match it with the rest of your cupboards and furniture.

Just look for the exact same color or a similar design and details like these matching handles.

Another way of turning that tiny space in between two pieces of furniture into a pantry is to opt for a taller but extremely narrow design. How about one that’s under 5 inches in width?

This solution is a gamechanger in modern flats where space is often a hair-pulling problem, and it’ll allow you to store a mixture of smaller and taller items, from spices to bottles.

No need to add a microwave or coffee maker? Then save yourself even more precious space by choosing a shallow pantry cabinet with closed cupboards and a thinner design.

This is a proper lifesaver in tighter corners where a traditional slim pantry cabinet would be a bit in the way.

A closed corner model design, on the other hand, will optimize that small space while offering you plenty of layers of storage.

When you think that traditional dinner plates are around 10.5-11 inches big, it’s easy to see why a 12-inch-deep pantry cabinet will work wonders in your kitchen.

It’ll fit your most important items like a glove without taking up more depth than needed.

For example, these fairly shallow pantry cabinets would allow you to store a couple of rows of jars or canisters as well as entire glassware sets, too.

Hoping to store an appliance but worried that a thin pantry cabinet won’t accommodate for it? Think again! You don’t actually need that much depth: 14 inches (or even slightly less) will do.

That way, you get to keep your microwave at easy reach or create an entire coffee-making station by showcasing your new machine and cups.

At the same time, a few cupboards, shelves, or drawers (or a mixture of the three!) will help you store your most traditional pantry items and food tidily.

This just over 8-inch-wide cabinet with wheels is a flexible, less permanent solution that we especially recommend if you’re currently renting.

It’ll be a breeze to take it away when you next move and find a new corner for it.

While slim storage cabinets are primarily practical pieces of furniture, that’s not to say that they can’t look pleasantly decorative, too.

From raised panels to ornate shapes and slatted doors, consider looking for a narrow kitchen cabinet that could easily be mistaken for a traditional furniture piece.

Think beyond shelves and drawers when choosing your narrow kitchen cabinets!

In fact, a 12-inch-wide pantry cabinet that isn’t too tall will allow you to make the most of its top surface, too.

You could use it for practical purposes, such as to store a microwave, or to add a more visually decorative element like a fruit bowl or a pot of flowers. 

Another clever way of saving space in kitchens that feel too crowded is to choose a design that matches the angle of your unused corner. Yes, the one where you thought nothing could fit!

Adding a corner twist to a narrow kitchen cabinet will result in extra depth without taking up too much floor space. When opting for an open design, you’ll also get to add an appliance or two.