The New Pantry.

For most of you that have been following me, you already know that I am all about a pantry. I have talked about my other pantries here and now after 3 houses in one year, I have another one to show y'all.

This house has a standard sized pantry which is of course in the kitchen. It also has a coat closet and a linen closet in the hallway. I had to rework those closets to hold kitchen items.

This is the pantry that is in the kitchen. It has REAL wooden shelves and I could not love them more.

A shelf for canned goods.

A shelf for our boxed goods.

A shelf for all things coffee. Yes, I have a shelf for coffee items and a draw;-)

A shelf for my dry goods, cereals and sugar. I love my clear containers.

I have a double cabinet that holds all of my spices.

My baking shelf. (which isn't being used right now due to a diet)

In Florida and Cincinnati, I had a lazy susan. I loved my lazy susan. I miss my lazy susan. I decided to use those round turn thingies from Walmart to put my most used spices on.

This is the closet that is at the end of the hallway. If you turn right, you go to the master bedroom. If you turn left, you head up the stairs to the bonus room.

This houses more dry goods, extra things, and all my small appliances. It has a light in it which is really nice and more wooden shelves. I didn't need to use this for linens as we have built ins in our closet and the other two bathrooms have linen closets in them too. This was the best use of the space for us.

A while back I showed you the hall closet and what I was doing to it.

We asked the builder to put two shelves in this closet because we thought that we would use this as the overflow pantry. As soon as we moved in, I knew that it just wasn't going to work. I needed a place to hang the laundry up and also a place to put the dog food and the vacuum cleaner. I just have to paint the boards that held the shelves.

So that is the tour of my pantries. I have to have more than one to hold all the goodies I bought today at Harris Teeters;-)

My total bill rang up $83 and I walked out paying just $35. I think that was pretty good since it was my first time using coupons in a long long time:)

Hope y'all have a good week. We are hunkered down for the bad weather that is coming our way. They have already called off school for tomorrow. I feel a day of blog reading and coffee drinking coming my way.

Mel

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Serenity Now

Been a busy week.

It's been a busy week for me. Not much blogging going on and hardly no time for visits to all of you.

I have been working on this.

And this.

And sadly the chairs didn't make it to the family room:(

Then I went to this.

And this.

Y'all know how much I love to organize and I took a day to do just that. We have a pantry that is small so we asked the builder to add two shelves to the hall closet. (you can see one in the picture) I decided that I needed that closet for hanging up my laundry when it is finished drying and also for my swiffer etc.

So I reworked the closets and it is more functional for me. I will post pictures of the finished product when I can remember to take pictures.

I then went to work on this.

This is the bonus room that Gary and I will share as an office/craft space. I can't wait to finish this room and show you the closets (there are two) and a full bath that is built on a step up. It is going to be really nice.

The room looked much worse than this. This is before EVERYTHING was unpacked and put up there. I took a picture with my cellphone and sent it to a friend and she called and said "that is a lot of stuff!" It was completely overwhelming.

Anyway, I have made great strides this week. I found some fabric to recover the ottoman that is in our family room, found someone to make a roman shade for my dining room, and got the bonus room where we can walk in it without me breaking a leg:)

But now I have to do this.

Caden went with me to pick out a new Christmas tree. We decided on a tall skinny one and I am hoping that I like it. He has also promised that he would help me decorate it, so when I show you a picture of it, you'd better remember that! HA!

So as you can see, progress is being made and I have lots to show you but I have to remember to take photos of everything. I start something and forget about pictures and then I finish and don't remember them then either.

But honestly, I have been so busy that I haven't had time to blog so it wouldn't have mattered.

Hope everyone has had a good week and that you'll have a better weekend. We will be decorating the tree, cooking some football food, and watching the ACC game Saturday night.

Sounds like a perfect weekend to me.

Mel