I love feeling organized. If my house is clean I feel like my whole life is in order.
I can’t usually live up to my own standards of cleanliness, but each piece that I can get in order makes me feel a little bit more put-together.
That’s what led me to finally cleaning up my pantry.
You may remember these pantry photos that I shared when I was doing some Spring cleaning:
Soooo disorganized!!
I tried to be somewhat organized. Cans go on this side… baking stuff over here… etc., etc. Clearly it wasn’t working. Time for a change!
So I bought some bins and some chalkboard labels, and I organized everything!
It actually took a really long time to organize them because I wanted to get matching bins, and the store only stocked a few at a time. I bought one on the first trip and when I knew that the bins fit perfectly into my shelves, I went back three more times to buy more of them!
Materials:
Small bins
Large bins
Shelf Liner
Chalkboard labels
Chalk
I started by clearing out the entire pantry and cleaning the shelves.
Next I pulled out all of the big items that I don’t use as often (such as big containers, blenders, etc.) and sorted them into the two large storage bins in the bottom of the pantry.
Next I sorted the food into similar groups and started placing items in bins.
Meanwhile, my husband graciously helped me by measuring the shelf liners I bought, and cutting them to fit onto the shelves correctly.
Once everything was ready, I put down the shelf liners, put in the storage bins, and added chalkboard labels so that everything would be easy to find!
Here are the end results:
I made sure to put the lightest bins on the top shelf so that they were easy to lift down if necessary. Crackers… snacks… napkins… you know!
And that’s it!
It seemed like a very intimidating project at first…
and it took a little while to buy everything, but actually organizing the pantry was fairly quick and painless.
I literally smile every time I look in the pantry now!
It’s so wonderful to have it so organized :)
Hope you like my end result!
{xoxo}