Updated Pantry. ..

I  hated absolutely hated the color of the pantry door. Plus, it was peeling....Never a good or safe thing with a baby, so we stained it. When I tell you it was such a transformation. I wish I would have done this from the start. I absolutely love the screen door now. 

Before:

More before pictures here

After:

What do you think??? Hit or miss??? Better before or after?

I haven't linked up in so long.......I guess I'll link this up.... :-)

Screen Door on Pantry :)

We came, we saw , we conquered! :)

Happy Monday! Mondays are never really happy. I mean it's the day after the weekend! However, I am having a happy Monday because our pantry is finally finished ( for now) lol.

Pantry before:

Can we say boring???

Pantry after:

I love the beat up pantry door. We didn't want it to look like we brought it from a store. We wanted it to look like we had it for decades as if it could have been on the pantry since the house was build in the 50's.

The lighting in this area is horrible, so I tried to get the best shots as I possibly could.

Nevertheless, there is some stuff that will get an upgrade eventually like smaller baskets, better dog storage, etc.., but for now I am we are pleased with the outcome. :)

What do you think? Love it or not so much??

Related post:

The chalkboard labels on the plastic containers

Project Pantry in Full Effect

Inspirational Pantries

I am linking this project to:

Pantries that will make you jelly! :)

Sr. gets up every morning to go to work Monday - Saturday. He gives me and Jr  a kiss. His job is not the easiest job. He has to deal with ALOT of drama at his job on a day to day basics that I wouldn't have the patience for. However, my husband is built Ford tuff! :) He is an incredible man I must say myself. He is my work horse. Not only does he put in hours at his 6-6 job at times, he comes home and help me with projects around the house. I'm not going to lie I am kind of hard to deal with at times because I can be alittle too ambitious.  For  instance, we are finished the pantry. Project pantry should have took us over two weeks to complete. We had a lot to do. Take down shelves, paint the walls, put up wall paper, make the shelves ( which came out really nice), paint the shelves, put up the shelves, then finally put the pantry back together. whew. Also, the screen door was a process in itself! We had to take all the old hardware off of the screen door, cut the screen door down to fit on the pantry,  lightly sand it down, take old screen off, paint , put new hardware on, put new screen on & the put screen door up.. When I tell you it was a rough week, it was a rough week! But guess what, we completed it. & I couldn't be more pleased. :)

I have so much more usable storage.

 Here are some pantries to be jealous of ( my inspirations):

The yellow, the jars, the baskets! Yum!

The screen door. My inspiration!

Everything about this is beautiful. The bottles!

The baskets! The neatness!

amazing!

Do I even need to say anything about this pantry???

I love love  a nice clean, well organized pantry.  Here are a couple of things that make a great pantry for me:

Jars

I love pantries with jars & clear containers, so that you really see what you have. Also, look how pretty & pleasing to the eye these jars are.

Baskets

I love pantries with baskets! the browner ( not sure if that's a word, but hey I make up words or I use them wrong..ha) the better!

bottles

It's something about showcasing all of your liquids in bottles.

I took alot ideas from these amazing pantries to make one just my  our own. I'm going to post next week my our pantry. We are I'm still tweaking it. I still have to find better looking storage option for dog food.

This is a great idea:

Love Lurve this :

Our dog food has to be in the pantry. Do you have any ideas on "stylish" dog food storage?????

Do you have any pantries you envy??

**** Thanks Sr. for being such a amazing person, great dad & a wonderful husband. We appriecate you and all you do! :)  ****

Project Pantry in Full Effect

Happy Friday!!! :)

Project pantry is in FULL swing. & I am so happy.. :) 

Now, yesterday, I posted these beautiful pictures of our Dinning Area check that out here..

Before: Lovely, I must say myself. lol

 but be very afraid of what it looks like now! lol I literally started this mess right after I finished taking those pictures..

Horrible right??? lmao

Well, we are working on project pantry.. So I had to clean it out to patch up the wall and paint, so we can work on the shelves.. 

Onto to Project Pantry....

 Pantry befores:

Not too shabby right??

Well, I can't STAND those wire shelves. The previous owners put them up pretty badly which is why this happen:

More about that here

Progress:

 The wire shelves are gone, and they will be replaced with wood! YAY!! :) Are you wonder what we are doing with the wire shelves? Well, we are selling them on Craigslist! Check them out here if you or you know someone who wants them! Just because I don't like them doesn't mean somebody else won't. Right?? ha But if these wonderful shelves don't sell, then we will put them up in our garage... Yeah, we are really big on recycling , so we will not send these to a waste land.. We will find use for them some where in casa Cheathams.

I want to replace this, but practical Sr. is not feeling that . I would like something maybe not so practical, but that will look amazing!! Who will win this battle? stay tuned. I have a good idea who will win.. ha

Can we say I had a busy busy week???  I got a lot completed & started like all of those big projects ( some I haven't even posted yet) like dinning room chairs, completed dinning area, & started project pantry, plus a whole BUNCH of small projects like Spring wreath, Chalkboard labels, Peter , organzing files on computer, and I did a lot of  blogging, household chores and shopping. Plus, I got a good bit ( depends on what you call a good bit) of my Spring cleaning done ( which should have been done, but c'mon I'm on only human or am I?? LOL) ...And people think housewives do nothing all day.

 I did all of this with a not soo interested crying soon to be 5 month year old...Yep, I think I'm superwoman..

This weekend
Not only will we be working on Project Pantry, we will have to do lawn work.... When will we sleep?? lol

Can we get a baby sitter?? :)

 What project will you be tackling this weekend??

 Have you already got a pantry completed that you would like to share???

If no project, then how will you be spend your weekend??