Kitchen pantry built-ins

[b_m_hart]

I've got some built-ins to make (no, no bead board for these, hah).  I have a small pantry closet in the kitchen and I will need to assemble the pieces in the closet itself.  The closet is 23.75" wide and 9.5' tall.  I'll make a set of shelves on one side that are about 10 inches deep, and then I'll need to either a deep set of shelves (18-24" deep) on the other side of the door. 

I intend to make a cabinet carcass out of ply, level and plumb it in place with a shims as necessary, and use a couple of strategically placed screws to act as clamps while everything dries.  Is this a bad approach?  The problem is, there's no way to make the cabinet as tall as I'd like to make it and still get it inside the pocket door opening.  I'll scribe a solid stock face to it and domino that in place so it'll stay put (then put shelves in place as necessary).  Sorry if this is rambling and clueless... never done this sort of thing before.

 

[rdesigns]

When I made a pantry for our kitchen, I wanted it to be as tall as possible, too. My solution was to build it in two stacking sections.
The lower one is about 50" tall, with full extension rollout shelves with short sides. The rollouts are the full width of the inside of the carcasse (minus 1" for drawer glides.)
The upper section has 2 tall doors, each with spice racks attached to the inside of the doors.
Deeper inside are two units that swing out, and they pivot in the center. Behind the swinging units is more storage space.
The swinging units extend in height to about 6 feet, with a full-depth shelf above that houses large, little-used items. With the height available in your case, you could have an extra shelf in the upper part.