Pantry Remodel!

Here is the pantry before.. what a mess, right??? It was about the size of a typical coat closet and just had kind of deep shelving. You know the kind, where everything gets stacked in front of something else and it can never be organized properly.

Then my very handy husband went to town on it.

He looks a little terrified.. turned out it was a much bigger job than expected!

But it all ended well.

I drew out a rough sketch of how I puctured it and he made it happen. There will be a few more shelves going higher, but we started with this since I'm under five feet tall. I can actually walk right into that low back section without ducking, in boots! The shelving is very narrow, but there is still more shelf space because of opening the wall.

Here are some closeup looks:

This is to the back left where you can't really see in the other photo, it's the empty space that was under the stairs. Bins for fruit and root veggies, packets, etc. rolling pin storage in the little cubes, top shelf is some of my molecular gastronomy supplies before I finished adding them in, second is pasta supplies and below we have cookie sheets, rolling pins, etc.

And all my little bale jars. Filling and labeling these was so much fun!...but I'm strange and love to organize.

And on the left side of the pantry I have a bunch of pop up containers by OXO. These things are awesome, they have an automatic airtight seal to keep things fresh. I still need to get a few more, once we add some more shelving.