More About the Pantry

There sure are some gorgeous kitchen pantries.

Just browsing through Pinterest the last few months, I've

seen some beauties!  Some are as big as my whole kitchen

with walk in styles, shelves like a gourmet specialty food shop

and even hanging chandeliers!  haha.  Well, mine is

small, but I still love having one at all.  And a couple of

weeks ago when I painted it's door black to match the rest

of the doors inside my house, I thought the inside could

use a little improvements, too.  The shelves are just plywood

and I've always painted them white.  Instead of painting this

time I bought rolls of cork shelf liner.  I have done a few kitchen

drawers like this and like it a lot.  Then, to cover up the rough

edges, I bought a long strip of edging in pine at Lowes.

I got out my girlie tools and cut the pieces to the proper 

lengths, gave them two coats of paint and attached them

with hot glue.  I thought I might need to put a couple of nails

in each but so far they haven't needed any extra support.

I think the attached edging made all the difference in finishing off the look.

Now the inside is as nice as the door!

I only keep what I use regularly in this pantry so it doesn't get

over crowded.  It bugs me to have to dig through things and

I hate it when items become lost and forgotten in the back.

I converted a big closet in the back of the house for an over-flow

pantry that stores all the stock-up items I get on clearance.

And it's a nice place for bulk items that I don't need every day.

A nice little project that only took about an hour.

Makes me wonder why I left those raw shelf edges like that 

all these years. ha.  Sometimes improvements don't

hit you until years later. ..at least it's that way with me. lol...

♥