Nesting, part 1: Pantry Project

I was just starting to get the nesting bug last month when I found this blog that TOTALLY inspired my to clean up my pantry. It hit me at the right time because I'm in the mood to MOVE and get things done. Here is the finished product--neat, clean, organized and labeled. (Now can we make it last?)

Here is what it looked like before:

What a disorganized mess!

If you look close you can see how chipped and gross the shelves were before. What a mess! How did I find anything? Okay, so here's what I did:

First, I took everything out of the pantry and scrubbed down all the shelves.

Try living like this for three days!:

Step 2: Painted the walls (two coats). I used paint that I already had. I'm being frugal, and it already matched my kitchen.

Then, taped off and painted the shelves white (two coats).



















Oh, doesn't it look beautiful? To protect all my hard work, I covered the shelves with white contact paper as well.




















My friend Julie helped me by making labels with her silhouette. Oh, how I would love to have one of these machines! We labeled just about everything! Aren't these glass jars cute? They are from Wal-mart for only about $3.50 each.

Isn't the bottle of maple syrup cute! I borrowed that idea from that other blog as well.
Since I bought a new trash can to replace my disgusting old one, my family complained that the couldn't tell apart the recycling bin and the trash. So we even labeled those.
Once again, here is the final product:

What a beautiful sight!