How To Add a Small Kitchen Pantry
Kitchen pantries are an efficient way to store all kinds of food items and kitchen necessities in one practical space. Pantry areas range from large, walk-in rooms to small kitchen cabinet shelves. You do not have to forgo a pantry because you have a small kitchen. Pantries of all kinds are easily created with a few organizational items and a few techniques, so you have a space-saving and visually appealing pantry all in one. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Ready-made, freestanding pantry unit
- Shelf paper
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Glass canning jars
- Labels
- Tiered can organizers
- Clear glass containers
- Plastic containers
- Baskets
- Lazy Susan
- Grocery list pad of paper
- Clothespins
Instructions
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Organize shelf space into types of foods in your ready-made, freestanding pantry unit. To create a well-organized pantry, it is important to divide items into canned goods, baking items, pastas and rices, cereals, and the like. It is most efficient to feature one type of food on each shelf.
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Line shelves with shelf paper. Choose an attractive paper, measure with a ruler and cut to fit with scissors. The shelf paper gives the small pantry a cheerful appearance and helps protect the shelves.
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Store baking items in clear, glass containers. Pour your flour, sugar, brown sugar, and baking mix into individual glass containers with lids. Adhere a label with the name of each item on the front of each container with the appropriate expiration date from the package and display on a shelf in your pantry.
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Arrange canned goods on tiered, plastic shelves. Put a few tiered units on a shelf in your pantry. Display canned goods on the shelves with their labels facing outward for easy identification.
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Fill baskets with snacks. Baskets are great storage units for bags of chips and other snack foods. Arrange your bags in a few baskets and fill a kitchen pantry shelf with these baskets.
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Pour cereal into plastic containers. Plastic cereal containers are an efficient way to store all kinds of breakfast cereals, so take the cereal from the box and pour it into a container. Adhere a label on the front of the container with the name of the cereal and the expiration date for easy identification, and arrange these containers on a shelf in your small pantry.
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Store food items in a lazy Susan. Lazy Susan storage pieces are a useful way to save pantry space and provide easy access to many kitchen staples. Fill your lazy Susan with items in cans and jars for optimal efficiency.
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Store miscellaneous items in canning jars. Old fashioned-looking canning jars are an attractive way to store all kinds of pantry items from pastas to cookies. Fill these jars, adhere a label on the front indicating what is inside, and display on a shelf in your small pantry.
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Add a jar of clothespins and a grocery list pad of paper. Add a jar of clothespins to the top shelf of your pantry to close bags of opened chips and a pad of paper to write down items that need to be replenished for the finishing touch to your small kitchen pantry project.
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Tips & Warnings
Arrange all foods in your pantry with the labels facing outward for easy identification.
Use airtight storage containers to keep food fresh.
Ready-made, freestanding pantry units are available at home decorating and home improvement stores.
It is important to put expiration dates on your labels, so you can discard expired items when they are no longer fresh.
Only store items in your pantry that do not need to be refrigerated.
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