Our Pantry Project

We've been in our new house almost 3 years now!  And I've hated our pantry for almost 3 years now!  So over the Christmas break, we decided to finally redesign our pantry.

BEFORE:  The shelves are 24" deep, so we essentially have a "front row" and "back row" of food on each shelf, making it very difficult to reach things and keep things organized.  The blueprints for our house show L-shaped shelves which was what we thought we were getting, so we decided to make them that way now.

Jodi adding supports for an extra shelf up high.

Justin extending the supports along the side wall.

Justin using his router on top of his new table saw.  Yes, he also has one eye patched from scratching it badly with flying saw dust.  We cut our existing 24" deep shelves to 14" deep, then cut new wood for the side shelves.

Jodi painting the new shelves, feeling grateful that the weather was warm enough to be working in the garage! (Although I did have my space heater running.)

AFTER:  We now have even more shelf square footage space since we added a new 6th shelf, plus we can more easily see and reach everything in the pantry.

Yay for a handy husband!  I love our new pantry!