A New Pantry

Remember that wood that I fished out of a dumpster a couple months ago?  Now it’s a pantry.  Our laundry room is just off the kitchen, and it had a closet in it.  There was one high shelf and a hanging rail, but other than that, it wasn’t a very useful space.  We didn’t need it as a closet, but we did need a pantry.  So we transformed it.  We used the wood that I diverted from a landfill to make shelves, and I scrubbed them with vinegar before we put them in.  My husband took out the hanging rail and mounted it under a set of cupboards in the laundry room – right where a dryer would go if we had one.  Now I have a place to hang things like shirts as soon as I take them out of the washing machine, and everything else can go out on the clothesline or onto my drying racks.  Here’s the pantry, which will be a lot more crowded after I pick up our first bulk food order this evening:

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