We both still do quite a bit of crafting, but most of what I work on these days is home improvement or home decor projects (spoiler alert: I bought my first house! Go me!) So the majority of my posts and pictures will probably be home projects!
So, this is a project from a couple of years ago, but it's one of those projects that I still get excited to tell people about, so here goes...
One thing I wasn't crazy about in my house was there was no built in pantry and extremely limited cabinet space...and I'm a gal who likes to eat! The people who lived here before used shelving in the laundry room for food storage, but I wanted to use that for cleaning supplies (plus, why travel back and forth between two rooms when you can keep your cookies and milk 10 ft from each other? Am I right?!)
So, I price checked. Stand alone pantries that I liked were around $200-400+. Before buying one, Heather and I went to a big flea market to see if I could find one for a little less. I set a budget at $250. After being outside in July all day, finding several pantries that were just over budget or were in pretty rough condition, I was feeling defeated. Then we saw them...Two outdated TV cabinets, in pretty good condition but probably not anything someone would want to bring into their house in this decade. Naturally, I asked what the price was. The lady said, "I'll take 20 if you take both of them." I tried to act really nonchalant like that was a fair price and I wasn't planning on paying a penny more (as I stuffed $230 back into my pockets). Then she made a couple of her family members load them into the truck, which probably would have been equivalent to $20 in labor, so I practically got them for free. ;)
Here they were...don't judge me for what I was willing to pay...I saw potential, ok?!
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I had just used the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations kit in my kitchen and had some left over, so I decided to use it on my new pantries! (I adore this kit by the way! It is time consuming, but I liked the result and they still look great over 3 years later!)
I just used latex paint for the inside... it is actually paint left over from my living room walls (maybe too bright for a lot of people, but that's why they don't live in my house! Lol!). Then I spray painted the handles.
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I grabbed some organizational things from the Container Store to make them more pantry-like and made one pantry for baking and the other for cooking meals. Eventually, I'd like to get more storage and organize them better, but ain't nobody got time for that right now.
In the drawers of the cooking pantry, I put things like rice and pasta. In the baking pantry, I put my entertaining stuff and stuff that makes me say, "where'd that come from?" Please tell me other people have that problem...
Then, the open areas would be super cute to put some decor or pretty stuff in, but like I said, I have a major lack of space in my kitchen, so I tried to use every bit of space I had available! My appliances fought it out for the space...Toaster oven and Instant Pot were the victors (My little red Crock-Pot was a close 3rd).
I also threw a nail into a hole that was already in the side of one of the pantries (at $20 I can't complain!) so I could hang an apron up. Cute and functional!
Then, here's probably my favorite thing about my "pantries"...the bottom pieces were the main areas that were a little beat up (you can see in the "before" picture). I ripped them out and now, Roomba has a perfect home where he is completely hidden! (No offense, Roomba, I still love you!).
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