My vote is trendy, as I've seen so many more of the "pantry" glass doors than I like to in homes in the last year.

Classic pantry doors would be more my style, but only you can decide if you want to follow the trend.

I don't think I've ever been in an older house or even an estate home where the pantry door says, "Pantry"; but I agree, it's whatever you like.

In fact, I've always wanted a vintage door for my bathroom to have a glass window with the old "bubble" glass and stencil "Restroom","Bath", or even just "Ladies" across it.

I think glass doors would be fine.

It's the "Pantry" part that I think would be trendy.

An option would be to get plain glass doors and then use frosted window film to spell out "Pantry." That way, if you got tired of it, you could easily change it.

I've only seen model(new)homes with a glass door that has 'pantry' etched into it~~I think it's trendy also. I've been searching for a vintage door for my pantry, with an oval glass insert. I might have to get it frosted since I don't really think I would like to look at cans/boxes/cat food. ;o)

i would agree that it's trendy to have the word pantry spelled out and i think i would tire of the word-esp since you have 2 doors you're considering.

but, i think a frosted or otherwise opaque/semi-opaque glass door on the 2 smaller doors would be really nice and would break up the doors in your kitchen. i know HD has many choices of glass doors in lots of sizes that you can order---take a look at all the styles! ('pantry' being one of them i think-at least with one of the door companys they sell...)

Thank you all for your opinions. I feel like I'll get tired of seeing "pantry" etched out and it does seem fairly trendy which is why I asked in the first place. You confirmed my hunch. I really like it now but its something I can see myself getting tired of and we don't plan on staying in our house forever so its probably better to keep things simple.

I'll check out some other options for glass doors to see if there is something different I can do to break it up but the doors will probably end up staying as is.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

Yay to the laminated glass door
Nay to the lettering

Cute but tooo trendy for me.

Our pantry door is a six panel and the flat sections are chalkboard. The lower sections are great for little ones to draw on and upper sections work great for notes and grocery lists.

I'd also skip the wording. I love reeded glass which is less see through than a clear pane.
The plain frosted glass is getting done a lot too, but is better than with the word "pantry" on it.

justgotabme - how did you get the chalkboard on the door panels? Paint? I want a chalkboard on my pantry door, just not sure how to do it. I also need a ledge for the chalk so it won't fall everytime someone opens the door. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I vote YES for glass doors - prefer frosted with either Pantry on them or get something w/just a design on it.
I had a glass door with Laundry - put on my laundry room - mainly because the hall is narrow and it has the garage door, powder room door, bedroom door and 2 closet doors. I really like that the sun shines thru the glass and it makes it less clostraphobic.

Yes for the glass doors, no to the "panty" lettering. This is coming from a person who hates kitchy, eclectic things so take that with a grain of salt. :)