- Hey, guys. It's Mindy.
Today I'm gonna take you guys along.
Well, it's probably gonna be more than one day for sure.
It's gonna be like several days.
As I reorganize my pantry,
you guys know we had a water leak.
The house got renovated,
and the pantry got completely remodeled.
So we are just working through the process
of putting it all back together, getting it situated.
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and tricks on how to reorg your pantry
if you need to as well.
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It's a mess in here, but this is the pantry right now.
We are going to, again, on our dime,
redo this and make it more of like a prep kitchen
with cabinets, and then shelving,
and then we're gonna do all the pretty,
really nice-looking pantry, but still functional.
Part of my goal in this whole kitchen process was
to really try to become my own "Home Edit" (laughs)
and really do things right in the kitchen,
specifically the pantry.
So I'm gonna show you what we're doing in the pantry
and take you along with us.
Step one, in becoming your own personal "Home Edit"
is ordering all the things you need.
So they just arrived.
You can see my wall of Amazon boxes here.
They just dropped 'em off,
and we are going to move 'em all
into the kitchen. - It's a lot of box.
- It's 'cause they're bulky.
Like, they're bulky containers,
so they take up a lot of space in boxes.
We're gonna go open 'em up.
One thing we always do when we're working on the kitchen
or moving in is cut liners
for all of the cabinets and drawers.
You open our drawers,
you'll see that there's a white liner underneath.
It just protects everything from getting dinged
or spillage or stains.
So it's a total pain when we do it.
Shaun always gets stuck doing it.
He's over here. - In every rental,
every house we've lived in,
I'm sure the twins' houses.
- You know what, it has saved us more than one time,
especially under the sink
'cause in one of our Waco houses,
the disposal started dripping.
And because these are a little bit foamy
- They're waterproof. - and kind of waterproof,
it saved the cabinets for many damage and we caught it.
So it does more than just keeping things cleaner.
But then you can switch it out, too,
and just throw it away if it gets dirty.
You can see Shaun measuring.
I think he's working on the cupboard over there right now,
lining all of those.
It takes several days for him to do it all.
You can see some of the leftover pile.
Not so fun, but worth it in the end.
Next step is organizing everything in the boxes
so I know what I'm working with
and how many of each item,
because I ordered various sizes.
Like, these are the bamboo lid glass jars.
You can see those containers.
So that's lots of different sized items.
We have all of these plastic bins.
Here's another smaller organizer set.
I have several of those.
I think I'm gonna have more than I need.
Probably gonna end up returning a few.
I also ordered some baskets
because I wanted to mix
and match the clear acrylic, the glass,
and the baskets to kind of keep things,
first of all, mixed,
just depending on what you're putting in there,
but to mix and match textures and tones, too.
Yesterday, we spent the whole day,
I wish I had filmed that, and I totally forgot,
but removing everything out of here and stacking it,
'cause it was literally stacked floor to ceiling.
And so we removed it all, pulled everything out.
So now it's pretty much here,
here, here, and here.
Gets worse before it gets better.
So the goal is, by the end of tomorrow,
I don't know if I'm gonna finish it tonight,
to get it all put away.
I should mention that when you're buying the things
for your cupboards, you should always measure your shelves.
So my shelves aren't super deep.
Like, some of these are 10 3/4,
and I have a couple that pop out a little farther,
like this bottom one that's 11 3/4.
So I had to make sure and really watch
because a lot of the baskets were like 12 inches deep
or 16 inches deep.
And obviously, that's not gonna work for me.
Even these baskets,
they were supposed to be turned the other way,
and then the handle would show,
but I had to turn 'em longways
because then they would fit on my shelf.
But I figured it worked, and it kind of looks prettier.
Just make sure you measure.
It's tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky.
Plans for over here.
I'm thinking a little soda area or soda syrups.
You know our family likes the soda with flavors.
Some straws, then I'm thinking hot cocoa/coffee area.
We have lots of guests come and stay
or workers in and out of our house
from the office that drink coffee,
so we always kind of keep it by plugs.
You know, doubles as just hot water for tea or hot cocoa.
I mean, I can put appliances here.
That was the original idea,
was to build this bar with all these plugs
so that I could just have all the things plugged in.
But honestly, my kitchen,
I've built an appliance garage in there,
and it has so much space that, so far,
everything's fit in that,
and I haven't needed to overflow in here.
And I feel like we'll use it in the kitchen more just
'cause it's where we typically cook with.
I'll show you.
So this is the appliance garage.
It's not organized, remember, we're moving in,
but I have just the blender,
the toaster, the can opener, the air fryer,
all the things that we use literally almost daily.
So I feel like they're better in here,
and then they're hidden.
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So I decided that I was gonna try
to hide the ugliest thing, the pantry,
in those cupboards. They're the only place I have
that's closed besides the drawers.
So for me, some of that was paper goods
'cause they're just bright colors, all those things.
So for me, this was one of the cupboards I picked.
So I stacked all of my knives, forks, spoons.
Cups up here. These are tablecloths and napkins.
And then I have everyday containers
that I keep some of those in
so I don't have to get up in the boxes all the time.
Stacking the paper plates right here in different sizes.
That's kind of what I'm gonna keep in that cupboard.
The only other thing I've put away,
oh yeah, I put away all of my Ziplocks and things like this.
So Zips, sorted them by size.
Up here, it's Saran wrap, aluminum foil, straws,
crockpot liners, that type of a thing.
I don't have anything up there yet.
So that's kind of as far as I've gotten so far.
Oh, except I did decide a trash bag drawer.
We got trash bags going in that drawer. Nice and hidden.
Now I'm gonna start working
through the coffee bar/drink bar area,
and then start maybe pulling baskets
and figuring out all of these shelves.
We built them so they were adjustable.
So we gotta figure all that out.
Like, I gotta figure out what I want where,
and then adjust the shelves accordingly.
I've got my little Lazy Susan syrup all tray ready
to go here.
I obviously needed two and didn't realize that,
so I'm gonna have to order another one,
but this is a good start.
And I also ordered these pumps
so that I can switch 'em all to pumps.
I'm gonna do that right now.
Hey, update. I think it's been like two hours.
This is where I'm at.
It was really hard to get started
because I just had all these air shelves
and didn't know where to go with it at all.
But I figured it out.
So I kind of sorted it into sections, groupings,
which is ironically what "Home Edit" says to do.
Basically, these two sections all the way up
are gonna be kind of like our cooking, baking stuff.
Not baking 'cause I'm trying to keep baking in the kitchen,
but like cooking, food prep,
anything that has to do with food,
like dinner, meals.
Ignore this 'cause it's a mess right now.
This is gonna be snacks all here, I think.
And then here will be like breakfast foods.
- [Woman] That's right.
- My overflow snacks.
But that's the basic gist.
So I'm actually figuring out
I don't have nearly enough bins,
so I'm gonna have to order a bunch more.
All right, I worked on it for about, oof,
four or five hours, way too long, and I got tired.
I realized partway through I hadn't allowed space
for some noodles, and I need a couple more bins
for oats and rice.
And I have quinoa here.
So I fixed that.
And, I don't know,
there's still one little problem area that's bugging me
that I don't know what to do about. So my brain is tired.
So I'm like, "I'm going to bed."
I'll finish tomorrow just because I need a break,
and I think clearing my head will help in the kitchen.
I'll show you one thing I did get done
'cause I decided I was gonna put all the baking stuff
in one area.
So if we wanted to make cookies or whatever,
we had access to it.
That got done, and it's all pretty.
I'll show you what I did on another time.
But still plenty to do.
That's where we're at until tomorrow.
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Here's what I learned doing all of this.
Like, I initially didn't know
what size containers I would need.
I ended up pretty much using three different sizes
for the whole project versus like 20 different sizes.
So I, really, I ordered a bunch of stuff off Amazon,
and then, luckily for me, Amazon is great about returns.
So I just did all my returns
to like the Kohl's drop-off.
So that made it really easy.
I ended up using mostly these bins, these baskets.
And I've got the baskets in two different sizes.
You can see there's a smaller size here and a bigger size.
And then for the top shelf,
clear bins that are just a little bit taller
and more narrow.
That was pretty much it.
Oh, and then, of course,
these random airtight containers, so, and the jars.
I told you I only use like three sizes,
then I show you like seven.
But yeah, the jars.
I love the way it turned out.
I think it's gonna really help keep
everything super organized.
I will link in the description box below a list
of all of the items that I use, all the containers,
so you can find them on Amazon, too.
I was really impressed with most of what I ordered.
There were only a few things that we kind of sent back.
Turned out amazing. I'm super excited about it.
I think it's such an upgrade from the last pantry
and the way it looked,
and I just truly do love good organizations.
So this just makes my heart very happy.
Thought I would show you, too.
I love this Costco stool.
It's just a little two-step.
And it's called a lightweight,
so it's like super, super light.
Easy to move around.
So I just kind of leave it sitting
in the pantry right there
so then it makes it easy.
The other thing I love is this little latch
at the top of the pantry door.
What it does is just swings the pantry shut
after people use it
so it doesn't have things hanging open all the time.
It just kind of shuts it off and keeps it nice
and more aesthetically pleasing on the outside.
Pais, what do you think of the new pantry?
- I like it.
- Yeah. What's your favorite part?
- I think my favorite part is how organized it is.
So then you don't have to go digging around looking
for what you want.
- I agree with that.
I hope that it stays nice and organized.
- Yeah.
And she's like, "And fully stocked with all the snacks."
Right, Pais?
- [Pais] Yep.
- (chuckles) Well, that's it, you guys.
I hope that you've enjoyed this video on the pantry,
the new updated space.
I love the way it turned out.
There's a few little things, like I said,
but overall, I love it, love it, love it.
And let me know what you think.
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