Just bought and completely renovating a 50s semi. It hasn't had anything done to it in years (we found papers from 1949/1950 under the old lino today ) so needs a lot of work.
In one corner of what will be our dining room there is an original built in pantry. It's about two foot square and I think the outer side is actually a brick wall, with a wooden door. There's a concrete slab at about waist height, for keeping things nice and cool, and then two small shelves above that which are solid wood and very well made.
Really can't decide whether to leave it in or rip it out. DH wants to keep it as he thinks it will be useful storage space but I think it's quite a crap shape plus there's a large wooden cupboard built in in the opposite corner already. My main reason for keeping it would be that I think it's quite nice to retain some original features but then I also think I'd quite like my 4 foot of dining room back!
Any thoughts? Ta