Before:
When we bought our house a year ago, there was an old freezer in the mudroom. We never turned it on or used it because old appliances like that are energy gluttons. We recently bought a new Energy Star chest freezer for our basement and had the old one hauled away. It opened up a lot of space in the mudroom so we decided to put in some shelves and make a pantry for all of our home canned goods and supplies.
The empty space:
Luke bringing in the rustic barn wood shelves:
The finished pantry:
We added hooks for hanging onions, garlic, and mesh bags of nuts.
It is so nice to have a place to store all this overstock for the winter. I’ll make a curtain to keep the pantry cool and dark.
Oh, I LOVE this! It is so homey and warm! The squash shelf is making me a little swoony with homegrown envy
I dream of the day that I will have a nice little pantry like this. My grandma had her storm cellar lined with shelves full of pickles, applesauce, green beans and peaches with a pretty curtain at the door and a bare bulb hanging above. It was one of my absolute favorite places and these pictures take me right back there.
That’s a nice use of the space! I love all your canned foods in the new pantry. Those pickles look amazing.