MtheGM, at our house (here in Indianapolis) there is a facility, near the back door next to the kitchen, which was, I think, designed as a coat closet. It's about two feet deep, just wider than the door. At some point it lost that mission, and several shelves were installed.

This is where we store such things as canned goods and mixes, bottles of various condiments, flour, oil, on the three large shelves in the middle. A narrower shelf, way up, holds miscellaneous household stuff, and there's more of that on the floor, below the deep shelves.

We have never used the term "larder" for this. Instead it's "the pantry", or maybe "the pantry closet".

Incidentally, most folks tend to think that "pantry" has something to do with the storage of pots and pans. Logical, no?   Wrong. The name goes way back, to a point when the pantry was where bread was kept. "Pan" = "bread".

Dave Oesterreich