Transforming The Closet Into A Pantry
I am so proud of my husband. Yesterday, he worked all day building shelves in my closet. Our food storage has quickly outgrown the small closet we had it in, which is definitely a good thing, so we were in need of a bigger, better pantry.
Okay, here’s my empty closet, left to right. It was just a plain walk-in, with two wire shelves to hang my clothes on. But look at all of the space being wasted! So, we took all of my clothes out and joined my stuff with hubby’s in his smaller closet. Then Jerry diligently set to work building shelves to make better use of the space.
Here’s what it looks like now. That’s what I’m talking about! Floor to ceiling shelves all around. We’re talking 10 feet tall here, I just couldn’t fit it all in the shot! Jerry even so thoughtfully put a step ladder in there for me, (though I still can’t reach the top two shelves).
He also built in a bookshelf for me. Guess he was tired of walking around the piles of books stacked on the office floor! Yes, I definitely needed more bookshelf space! He thinks of everything. He even measured my tallest books to make sure they’d fit. Can’t beat a custom bookshelf! He’s such a sweetie.
I am SO incredibly pleased with the way it turned out. So much room!! This project definitely made the most of this pretty small space. Oh, and the best part… since he built these shelves out of scrap wood we had laying around, all it cost us was a box of screws.
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oh my. soo much food in bulk. I thought I did, but you put me to shame!
How awesome! He did a great job!
green with envy over here! I am still waiting for more shelves to be added to my closets…I am about to do it myself!
What a great pantry! I wish I HAD a closet in my house that my hubby could do that in. So wonderful!! Enjoy it.
Hope you did something special for your man, don’t they come in handy???
So Kendra, do you ever use this food in the food storage, by that I mean do you buy extra when you go the the grocery store and then rotate this stuff out so it doesn’t go bad after too long?
Awesome!!
(although, may I suggest a lip or strap on the shelves where home-canned glass jar stuff is? being that there are kids in the house… if we knew we were staying here, that’d be on my own honey-do list)
I would love a pantry like that.We live in a very old house with no closet space.You must be so happy to have such a nice place for all that food storage.Wow!!!!!
So fun!!! Someday I’ll have actual pantry space. As it is, our food storage overflows to under the house (we’re in a mobile home right now) and hubby has to go down anytime we need anything.
Enjoy!
Excellent! We recently did something similar with a small back room, though we opted for some boughten shelves for the time being. I was interested in reading one of your back posts, that you do stock up purchasing at Aldi too. I have to say though, that even though their prices have gone up, it doesn’t seem to be as much as everywhere else, around here anyway.
That looks Fantastic, yall did a Great Job.
We did the same but turned a Darkroom Into A Pantry, well half of the Darkroom the other Half holds my Crafts.
That is awesome!
It’s beautiful! Your hubby did a really nice job!
Nice!
It looks fantastic. And I love that your cookbooks fit in there too! For an organization lover like myself, it is wonderful. Enjoy!
This is awesome! Very inspiring.
I just discovered your blog today, and I LOVE it. I’m so interested in homesteading, and reading about your journey has been really fun.
I’m renting right now (so that I don’t go into major debt buying a home). My favorite feature of this place is an incredible deep, huge closet with built in shelving in the spare room. It is perfect for food storage. I’m glad that other people don’t mind storing food in closets too.
Wow. Gorgeous! You do such a wonderful job with your home.
Robin,
Thanks!!
Wow, that is one awesome closet. Enjoy!
This is a really great idea!!!! I cannot do it where I am now. But once I am in my OWN home I will surely do this. Again… Such a smart idea!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
I had converted my living room closet into a nice organized mini library. It came out really well. Instead of having my books storage all over the house I now have them in a nice display. Oh I still use book shelf’s for other things then just BOOKS.
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