The pantry is one of my favorite things in our home.
When we were building our home, I would day dream about the possibilities for this "room".
It just screams FARMHOUSE to me.
When we were building our home, I would day dream about the possibilities for this "room".
It just screams FARMHOUSE to me.
I love this decorative door.
*Side note - I stained all the doors and trim for the house. I stained all the doors after they were hung, but before the floor was installed, because I make a mess! This door took me a very long time to do, because I had to be extra careful, not to get it on the glass, even had to prep it with painters tape, uugghh! But, oh how I love this door!
It reminds me of what would be found in an old farmhouse pantry.
When I go into the pantry, I love to see our hard work in these canning jars.
Dill pickles, zucchini pickles, zucchini relish.
Salsa. Soooo good...we have already ate 3 jars!
Tomatoes.
I keep my cook books in here. See the one with no binding and held together with a rubber band? That is my very first cook book (from my Mom) when I moved out on my own. I have used it a lot over the years and still do! I also store my grocery bags in the pantry (stuffed in that blue thing).
Shane added 4 shelves on one side and 3 on the back wall. Baskets hold individual size snacks. This frees up a lot of space by taking them out of the boxes that they are packaged in. Makes it easy for the girls to grab a snack for after school/before practices. I try to organize foods by category. I store things like paper towels, paper plates, and napkins in baskets on the floor, under the shelves.
The other wall does not have shelves because that would make it a tight squeeze to turn around in the pantry. Here is where I hang my aprons and a place for an on-going grocery list. When we are running low or use the last of something, we write it on the list.
I store potatoes, onions, garlic, apples and oranges in baskets and boxes on the floor along that wall also. I need to get a pretty tiered basket thingy to store these in. ;-)
We do not have a heating/cooling vent in the pantry, so things stay pretty cool.
I love your pantry...you are so right the door does say "Farmhouse". My pantry doesn't have Ac or heat and the root vegetables do very well in there. They last a long time.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to hear that you also keep root vegetables in your pantry and that they do ok. I prefer to keep them in the pantry so I don't have to go up and down the basement stairs all the time ;-)
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