I have always loved walking around Ikea looking at the kitchen section. Strangely, my favorite part is the Ikea pantry area—looking at all those pantry cabinets and storage is so much fun to me…nerd alert. 🙂 When it was time for us to put our own freestanding pantry in, we turned to Ikea. Rather than…
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How to Survive Without a Microwave
We recently had some friends over for dinner and while we were all cooking they discovered we didn’t have a microwave. I kind of forgot that not having one was weird. Want to know the reason we don’t? Surprisingly it has nothing to do with all the healthy concerns that are floating around the internet!
DIY Fail Turned WIN!
You know, this dresser and I have been through a lot together. I still remember picking it out as a kid. I was so excited by it. I loved the color, the floral pastel pattern drawn on it, the vintage-looking knobs. And even when I brought it home last year and decided to paint it…
Adding Open Shelving in the Pantry
You all remember those pantry inspiration pictures I showed you all a few weeks ago? As I was studying the common elements between those photos and assessing our true needs for that area to function, I was really excited to see the capability for open shelving. I have spent so much time pouring over glossy…
Open Storage in the Pantry
When I was a kid one of my favorite chores was organizing and cleaning my parents’ pantry. They had this lovely 8′ x 4′ or so walk in pantry and I found such joy in pulling over a step stool, pulling everything out onto the dining table, and carefully putting it all back in. There…
Adding a Butler’s Pantry
This is the story of humble beginnings. When we bought this house the floor plan was confusing, spaced awkwardly and didn’t function well for what we needed. The only open room in the house was the formal dining and the formal living…and it looked like so:
