Pantry love!

We've been in our house for 9 years.  When we moved in their was a coat closet in the dining room and none anywhere else.  We turned the closet into a pantry with plastic shelving for about a year, then put in a closetmate kit.  8 years later we finally turned into a much more efficient pantry.


We rescued some 2x4's that were getting tossed, purchased a 4'x8' sheet of plywood at Home Depot and they even cut into the dimensions we needed for no extra cost.  Only took the guy 2 mins to cut it, would have taken us hours.  Plywood was $12.


We sanded and painted the shelves a leftover light brown we had.  Much to his dismay, hubby painted the whole closet interior a left-over lime green we had.  We took down the bi-fold doors and added a curtain rod ($2 at garage sale) and curtain (already had) as the temporary door.  I have a real door on my Christmas list so we can hang the broom, swiffers, etc on the back of it.  At this time the curtain is nice, but not childproof if we have any little ones come visit.
  
I went to the Dollar Tree and purchased $12 worth of organizers. I had a ball putting everything in it's new home.  Total of 12 hours work time and $25 in materials and I have a new happy pantry!

 Before

 Took everything out

 

Painted

Curtain "door" & Shelves

 All filled & organized

 Bottom 2 shelves: Cat Food, Step Stool, Recycling bin & brown bags

  Next 2 shelves: canned goods and all cleaning cloths, baggies & hand towels, etc

 Top 2 shelves: Pizza oven, plastic shopping bags, picnic items, etc

 Curtain closed (needs to be steamed - kinda wrinkly)

Moved tupperware to cupboard we used to have all the canned goods in kitchen