Yes, we can finally check another project off our very long list. Joel built the shelves for inside the laundry room and he and Jeremy installed them a few days ago. Yippee!
When we moved into the farm house we removed most of the existing kitchen cabinets and repurposed a few of them in the long laundry room for some much needed additional storage. The wall you see above actually had a door in the middle leading into the master bathroom. Weird. So, Joel removed the door and door frame and dry walled the opening. That gave us a full wall in the laundry room to put some upper cabinets on and made space for the shelves he just built.
See what I mean? Storage! Yes! The baskets below hold our harvest of butternut squash and acorn squash. And the Ball jars are filled with the goodies from the garden. This room is just off the kitchen and will be so convenient to access the canned goods.
Then last Friday Joel and I drove down to Chattanooga and picked up the butcher block countertops. It took the three of us to hold them and run them through the saw to size them and then the guys installed them. After I oiled them with food grade mineral oil, they were all ready for us to use.
Ta-da! How pretty....and how useful....and it's done. Oh. My. Goodness.
This is the washer/dryer side of the pantry. The space was wide enough over here to put some leftover lower cabinets in place. Wow! Now that's a butler's pantry! Woo-hoo! Can you tell how excited I am to have another big project completed? And talk about function.....I have tons of space to store all sorts of items now.
And I just can't believe it's done. You know, completed. Finished. All ready to use. Yessirree....we're feeling pretty happy with how this has all turned out.
Now after all the labor of growing, harvesting and canning the foods into Ball jars....I feel like the jars have a safe place to sit with easy access to the kitchen. We installed 2 curtain rods and as soon as I find the right fabric for some cute curtains, I'll sew those babies up and this room will be pretty as a picture.
Guess what is happening here today? Yes! It's "THE KITCHEN IS GOING IN DAY"!!!
Tomorrow I'll show you pics of it all. Gotta run for now and see what the cabinet guys are up to.
Till then,
Debbie
