Pretty in Pink Pantry! Treasures & Trinkets

Today is Treasures and Trinkets Linky Party!
Link up something you love!
I’ll be linking up to Beneath My Heart’s
Organizing your Heart and Home Party. 
so pop on over there and link up your organized pantry or
Kitchen area and come back here and
link up something as well!
Let’s have some fun!

I’d like to introduce you to my nice, neat and pink Pantry, but first I have to show you the before pics! 

I live in KY and I have to tell you I LOVE my KY Wildcats basketball, but I don’t want the UK blue color in my pantry…

LIKE THIS….!!

I think the people that lived here before us,
were going for a Mediterranean look,
but it’s just not me.

Here are a couple of before pics of my pantry,
just to give you an idea of what it looked like
before all my hard work!

What a mess!

To start my pantry, I removed everything from it.
(boy, did that create a disaster!)

I also went through and removed all
the expired items…
it’s a wonder I haven’t killed my family
with expired food!
OH MY!
(I threw away, about 10 cans of food…
this is the good stuff here!)

 

After removing everything, I was left with this….

Yuck!

OK, ya’ll see that hole up there in my pantry?
Well whoever built this house, thought it would be a great idea to put the main water shut off valve
??INSIDE the pantry! ???
Anyway, I had this gaping hole there,
and to top it off, it wasn’t even cut out
wide enough to get your hand on the handle to turn the water off,
So, here’s what I did.

I cut the hole out a little bigger to be able
to get to the handle,
then decided to build a door to
cover the opening…

I measured it out and found I needed an
8x10 door..
I had an epiphany!!

I figured if I needed an 8 x 10 door, why not
just use a picture frame that was that size!
I love it when my brain actually works!

Here’s the only 8 x 10 frame I could find around here,
and it fit perfectly!

(I know it’s a little fancy for a pantry,
but it was free!)

I couldn’t leave it that color,
so I put my favorite 9 year old in the world to helping me!
See the blur of his hand..that boy is workin’!

I’ll show you how I finished that off here in a second,
but next I primed all the shelves…..

The inside of the pantry……

and all the brackets….

After all the priming was done, I painted it
all out in Colonial Cream…the same paint I painted
my entire kitchen with.
(if you’d like to see how I did my kitchen,
go here, here, here and here)

I wanted something different in the back of the pantry,
so I chose the wallpaper I did my kitchen in..
it’s called Victorian Charm…a soothing, romantic
pink and cream toile…

I just measured the length of the back of my pantry, wet my paper and then booked it.
Booking is when you accordion fold your paper
so the glue sides are together and then you let it
sit for about 5 minutes to further activate the glue.
It looks like this….

 

Then I just hung the paper,
making sure it was straight in the corners.
I cut off the excess on the top and bottom
like this….

I repeated that process with my second piece,
making sure to match the pattern with the first piece.
EASY PEASY and OH so Pretty!

After the shelves dried,
I bought some of this stuff in a creamy color.

I just rolled it out and cut it to fit!
AH, clean and bright!

Now to show you my little door, i.e. picture frame!

It went from this…..

To this…

I just put the piece of plexi-glass back in the frame,
cut out the pattern of the paper to match what was around it and put on a hinge!
Walla…a door!

Access to the water cut off,
but pretty to boot!

Now to install those shelves!

Tell me that doesn’t look better!!

It was SO pretty, I didn’t want to put food back in it!
But I did…sigh.

I put my food back in “like” groups…
i.e. pasta with pasta sauces..

Then all my boxed items went together in one spot..
mostly rice and potatoes….
Can you tell we like our carbs around here?!

I did add these cute little jars from the Dollar General
to this shelf, to hold my potatoes, rice and pasta!
(thanks Traci for the heads up on these jars,
I LOVE them!!)

All soups and beans went together…

and then all my veggies! I did it like a grocery store,
they’re all lined up in rows, labels facing out.

I also re-did the over the door hanger
on the pantry door…

I added some cute tags I made and some
chalkboard tags I cut from Chalkboard vinyl.
(a GREAT invention!)

Cute huh?!
LOVE that chalkboard vinyl!

Here’s a pic of my Pink Pantry AFTER…..

 

The milk crates in the bottom, hold my tupperware.
SO, much cleaner and brighter than before!

One last time…just for kicks!

Before….

And AFTER…

I’ll be linking up my pantry makeover
to Traci @ Beneath My Heart
Don’t forget to go visit her and
then link up your favorite things here
and your organized pantry there.
Also linking up to:
Domestically Speaking's Organizational Party
POPP Party
Show off your stuff party
Transformation Thursday @ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Thrifty Decor Chick's before and after party

Hugs

Missy