Pantry Remodel!
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Melissa B
The standard pantries in the house we bought last year were almost unusable. Long deep shelves and only 3-4 of them in a large closet sized area. Thank heavens they had doors. I designed the shelves, my husband cut them out of MDF boards, I painted them with several coats of paint, and he installed them with L shaped aluminum brace. The brace allowed use of the shelf all the way to the back of the space. I counted and measured all the things in my food pantry to make the plan for how many shelves, how wide, tall and deep they needed to be. See the beginning and end result. It's so nice to be able to find things now. It turned out so nice, we did the 2nd pantry where I keep dishes, plastics, and mixed items for the kitchen!
At least it looked nice and neat with the door closed!
Such a disaster... we couldn't find anything in the jumbled mess, and heaven forbid it was at the back!
So you empty first, and knock those shelves out!
It was small closet sized, we repaired any wall damaged and painted. the strips are from the wood they used to hold the former shelves up.
My production line for painting.
I used a left over Behr semi-gloss for the first 2 coats. But finished it off with a nice coat of gloss.
You can see the L shaped aluminum "brace" he used to hold the shelves. Smart hubby.
I can see everything! We did add one more shelf up high a little later. And the bottom shelf is about 8 inches from the floor, so I can clean!
Everything has a place. So nice. No more digging around to find things.
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I have saved this one for years. Talking Hubby into a work project one weekend!!! YAY!
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Hi Melissa! I was inspired by this for months. I'm not a DIYer so it took some time to find and hire a handyman for the project. I gave him the measurements and I love the results! Here are some before and after pics. Thank you for sharing your project!
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Love this pantry! Two questions, 1) did you put the door back on or kept the door off? If you put the door back on, does everything still fit with the racks installed on the door? 2) I'm having trouble understanding what the aluminum braces you used look like. Could you post another picture or suggest where to find them? Thanks!