Mid-Atlantic Gardening: New Projects in the Mid-Atlantic almost spring 2013, 4 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
Hi guys, long time no see!! < =D Pheewww, back to work again and so I'm once again busy and tired. Thank GOD it's Spring Break from school, Whee!! =)

Gita, .. yeah, I'm not Happy, but I can totally envision that look you're describing in your post above and it sounds like a really attractive idea! I wonder if Happy would be able to do that... look forward to her response.

We finally got all our (main/big) projects done, and BOY am I relieved!!! Now all that's left is little stuff for DH to get back to when he feels like it. (like organizing his work bench and putting back the baseboard that we had to remove to fit in the new pantry.. heehee).

Here's how the kitchen looks now... with an added bonus. We **had** one pantry cabinet, but it still wasn't enough to hold "overflow" items, so they ended up on a book shelf beside the pantry and on the FLOOR in front of the book shelf. MESSY! We got a new pantry to fix that problem, and it ended up solving another problem as well: My spice bottles! We found a really cool bottle shopping place online and got a ton of matching small and medium bottles for all my spices, then found spice racks on amazon. The racks are attached to the INSIDE of the pantry cabinet door, spices are organized in alpha order, and now all that is organized and neat and tidy, just the way I like it! =)

First pic; finished kitchen with cabinets in place. Next, the mess that used to be next to the single pantry. Third, how it looks now with the additional pantry. Lastly, the spice racks and bottles inside the pantry door. The stuff on the shelves inside is all set back from the edge a few inches so nothing is in the way of the racks/bottles when the door closes. :)

You can probably see the light fixture in the third photo.. the one hanging from the ceiling. That's old and going to get replaced... just another one of the "small" projects on DH's list of "Things To Do". =)

And now, time to hit the shower and get ready for work, Yippee!!!! < =D Y'all have a GREAT day!!