I grab a color that goes with the flooring and age/style of the property from my shelves and shelves of mistints I've purchased over the years.

As mentioned before you shouldn’t have to move the fridge to access the panel as NEC code requires unobstructed clearance in front and sides of the panel and it can’t be in a closet or crawl space or cased in by shelving etc. that restricts working clearance.

I can custom order maple cabinets from Menards for 75% of the price of the in stock cabinets lowes, home depot, etc carry, and mine aren't all dinged up from being loaded on to shelves by stock boys who don't care...We use lowes for most of our stuff.

It will cost a lot more in transportation costs to get that food to the shelves of your local grocery store.We rotate most items often.I've also lived through two situations that made me very concerned about things that could happen.

He started yelling at me with an expletive laden rant of threats, how I'm a POS because I won't give him a chance. 

The garage is a trash heap with shelves and ceiling storage that goes also.

If so, you may need to add bracing and/or layered shelving.  

The downside is that our kids will inherit debt-laden properties.

So, maybe a shoe store has to have $100K of stock on the shelves at all times.

Might be a smarter move to jack the house up to make the basement higher; of course, there is a lot that goes into doing that properly, but you will have a more functional space than leaving the "shelves" (that will resemble benches) taking up some of that valuable square footage.