Make A Coat Closet Into A Pantry

With storage in our tiny kitchen pretty much maxed out i decided we needed a pantry more than a cluttered coat closet that sat useless most.

Make a coat closet into a pantry.

My kitchen pantry is about 1 5 ft wide so not a lot of room to fit anything. You have so much room to store all kinds of goodies and it all looks so pretty. We ve lived in our new home for 4 months and we love it so much. You could use this same idea to create all kinds of themed storage areas.

I am a night owl so late one night i started searching for easy ways to convert a coat closet into a pantry. Here s diane s pantry it s hard to imagine it was ever a coat closet but the closet size and shape were perfectly suited to transforming into a pantry. Susan papercrafter s corner says. Any bi fold or sliding door closet can be converted to a pantry with the addition of custom shelves.

I had to do something but wasn t sure what. See more ideas about pantry coat closet home organization. After i thought about it i figured we could hang our coats in the other coat closet closer to our garage and free up space to make a pantry in our hall. Making a coat closet pantry.

10 04 2011 at 8 35 am. Turn a closet into a pantry kitchen organization. Find a closet close to your kitchen. My pantry is so small that i m tempted to build a coat closet and then make it into a pantry.

Look for a closet in a clean dark place that can be converted to a pantry. Make sure it does not share a wall with a laundry room or a room that holds a lot of computers or electronics. It s actually more of a pantry creation project really. Because the closet was originally meant for coats the shelves are just 12 inches deep which is deep enough to hold stuff but not too much stuff.

Get organized by turning a coat closet into a pantry in this project that can be put together in one hour. Hall closets are perfect for this kind of small pantry replacement as they re often located close to the kitchen. How to make a pantry from a coat closet. I was hesitant to drill into the walls and put up shelving because my coat closet shares a wall with my home s laundry room.

Some shelving can be slipped straight into the closet and loaded with goods or you can create your own internal organizer. One thing we missed was having a pantry. We have plans to turn the room behind our kitchen into a laundry room and.