I have a pantry in the kitchen with doors, and a good thing too, because it's total chaos inside and visible in the adjoining lounge area. I also have a butler's pantry with no door, which is just fine because it's not visible and it makes it easier to store things like wine bottles, big pots, and things like potatoes and onions. Each has their place.

don't mind either way ..our butler has a door but we never leave it closed so it's open but not visible from lounge/living area

So now the young couples are going to be demanding walk in pantries as well as WIRs on Lavish it or list it.

My pantry is a walk in, but all my stuff is stored in drawers. Easy access to everything and they can be categorized so easy to find and quick packing after grocery shopping

If the photo is any indication then definitely no, I see nothing but dust, grime and constant cleaning.

I'm going to have open shelves above the bench for easy access of ingredients in containers & drawers & cupboards below. Should be tidy all the time

It's just not pretty. I prefer to display decor items and nice matching mugs. Don't want my home to look like a supermarket, I'm sick of that place when I've finished shopping.

Yeah, well I can never find anything in Coles either.

Much like the first image above, I have both. The first side for food and recipe books is open and much like bookshelves. The other side which is visible from the kitchen has cupboard doors for large or periodically used appliances and cleaning - vac/ broom/ dustpan etc. The kitchen itself holds everything we use daily. I love it. I don't think I could go back to a traditional kitchen without a WI pantry. (I don't have ovens in the pantry, just storage).

No way, the place is untidy enough.

No, because a large number of food items require storage below 25C and away from light; as well the extra dust it would attract increases the need for cleaning, and unless you are in the OCD range, it adds to a cluttered look. Sliding doors are a good way to get easy access and conceal easily.

Cluttered, messy, unhygienic and cheap. No way.

Our daughter has no doors on her wardrobes and I hate that look, so a pantry without doors would never do, as oldroo mentioned, a dust and grime collector!!

It would collect dust without doors, unless you have a cleaning OCD.

I put appliances/ cleaning equipment behind doors to minimise dust. I don't have a problem with the food being on open shelves because food is in sealed containers and we use it before dust becomes an issue. Its also lovely to be able to see what food is on the shelves... really helpful for food shopping.

Unless you have a showpiece kitchen or a kitchen not used much, grease mainly, not dust so much, is a fact of life in a kitchen irrespective of a good quality rangehood and unless one is like sallybrown168 put it, OCD, who wants to be doing more cleaning than less??

I live 50+km away round trip from my nearest safeway, so when I shop, I buy multiples and when I finally get down to the last of something, I write it on the fridge list. Have tried to train everyone in the house to "put it on the list" so we never end up running out and having the dilemma of needing to travel so far to buy a single necessary item.

I guess it's because I live so far from the town that I can't forget something and it's not just kitchen needs, it's everything like the bathroom, laundry, pets and livestock as well.

I stock up on bread that is frozen immediately, so I'm sort of a mini store and sometimes neighbours that don't store like me, will call me up for something they suspect I will have stashed away.

In closing, I like the look of the open shelves and agree with ozcoley that you can see what things you have but I can see it just as well behind a pantry door too!!

A little off topic, but if you want to be free of the greasy dust in your kitchen get a ducted rangehood. We put one in our last reno and it eliminates the greasies. Even on top of the fridge, its just dust now. Awesome!!!

Yes ozcoley. For sometime we been ducting all rangehoods externally for the very same reason.

Our cat has an addiction to olive oil - if the pantry doors are open, he's in there licking the bottle. Doors that close properly are essential.

Molly, is his name Popeye?