Pull out larder regret

[Groundhog]

Hi we’ve just had a new kitchen from Omega ( English Rose). Happy with it apart from the pull out larder.  Too heavy, doesn’t feel secure and just awkward in my opinion.  I wish I’d gone for a butlers pantry type thing and am wondering if it’s possible to take out the pull out mechanism and replace with shelves, drawers and a door spice rack/storage unit.  For the door unit to work the shelves have to be recessed and I’m just wondering if this is doable without costing an absolute fortune ! 
we currently have a 500 cm wide unit that houses the pull out mechanism.

some pictures below.

image one is how it looks now from the outside. 

image two is what I wished I’d got ( that’s obviously a 1 metre unit),

so I want to convert my 500  unit to something similar.

plus the company have no returns policy so I’m stuck with pull out mechanism ! 
Live and learn eh 

 

thank you for any opinions / advice . 

[Alan Ambrose]

Live with it for a month or so and see? Of course you can change it but presumably with a 500 unit? We’re happy with ours so maybe it’ll grow on you?

[MJNewton]

We spent ages - months in fact(!) - debating what option to go for for our 600mm larder unit and there was something about the wire frame pullouts that seemed less than ideal. Whether it was the amount of space it took up, having to pull out far more than what you actually need, reaching over things to get stuff out from the back, I don't know. We then stumbled across the much simpler approach of using full-width and fully-opening deep drawers for the section below eye level and open shelves above. There's also a shallow drawer for tins (a lot of tins - must be over 50). We've lived with it for a few years now and wouldn't change a thing about it.

 

The drawers obviously work much better than the shelves, but we just make sure the rarely-needed items are located at the back on the latter. With drawers it doesn't matter as everything is equally accessible.

 

(Forgive the rather messy shelves - I've just taken these photos following a whole bunch of shopping being thrown in today... I'm sure it could be dressed better!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8 by MJNewton

[joe90]

I too built a pantry with sone shelves, some drawers, door racks, baskets for veg which works very well (I have no photos unfortunately