I have a space planned for my dry goods (4 foot 6" wide by 3 foot deep... but currently only have temporary shelving in so far. Am debating between pull out storage (which seems to be only 2 feet deep) and shelving on all three sides. My concern is how this will look out in the open.

Would love to see pictures of anyone else's....

Here are three I like:

Not sure what you mean by European or Brit style larder/pantry cabinets. Pull-outs? Do you have any pictures?

I was specifically thinking about something like this - checknout the black unfitted larder cabinet a bit further down with shelves on the door. They seem to be increasing in popularity in england again.

http://www.atticmag.com/2011/01/pantry-pride/

Oldbat2b- the picture in your post looks to be an IKEApantry set up.

In British usage a larder has traditionally been a food storage room. It was usually a room with heavy stone shelves, and good outside ventilation (to the cool outdoor temps of the UK) meant to keep the food cool as an alternative to refrigeration in the American style.

The term larder has more recently been applied to large cupboards, sometimes with tricky fold-out doors with shelves and bins on them. These are intended more for storage of dry, packaged food than for the more-traditional (cool) room-temp storage of veg., eggs, cheese, bread, butter, even short-term storage of meat, etc.

If you like the look of a large food-storage cupboard, with or without the clever fitments, then it's fine. But don't confuse the "marketing" usage of the word larder with the functional usage unless you have a very unusual house that is not over (by British standards) -heated, -cooled or -conditioned. Our houses - and in many places, our climate - make traditional "larders" impossible. That's why we've got ginormous Sub-Zeros with separate boxes for freezing and chilling!

Even my extremely non-normative house (no central heat in northern NY) is a challenge for its traditional larder, being at different seasons too cold, too hot and often too dry for perfect effect. Not that I don't try!

HTH,
L.