Pantry Makeover

Our new house is a fixer-upper.

There are holes in the walls, doors that need replacing, things that don’t work and everything needs a coat of paint and a lot of love.

There are also some significant design flaws in the layout.  For instance, there is only one full bathroom for all nine of us, also to get to the back bedroom one must walk through the bathroom (which is a master bathroom) and through the laundry room.  We have plans to create another bathroom and a hallway into the back bedroom, and we have hired professionals for that.

As for the cosmetic work and all the small repairs, we are on our own.  It is fun to decorate this house, knowing it is our forever home and I don’t have to think about someday selling it.  One of our first projects was the pantry.  We did it first for a couple reasons, one that I needed a functional place to store food, second, it is small and easy to do, third it is too cold outside to paint cabinet doors (for the kitchen, another post).

The pantry is a pretty good size room, but it had no shelving, someone took it all down (there were still holes and anchors in the wall).  The walls were also dirty and needed a new coat of paint.

I decided that I wanted to paint the pantry walls a color that I wouldn’t paint any other room in the house.  Something really bright, and pretty, and maybe a little obnoxious.

I picked this bright peachy/pink color out, and it was beautiful in the store, and in the paint can, but on the walls it GLOWED, and I love it!

Adding white shelving mellowed the color out a great deal, and I loved it even more.

 YAY, to my first real pantry and to my wonderful handy husband… on to the next project!

(notice the empty shelves…HEAVEN)