Organized Pantry

This is embarrassing because this is a post that I started over a year ago when I was pregnant with Molly and nesting and now I am just now getting around to sharing it!!  I am fairly proud to say that one year later from these photos, my pantry really does still look like this and pretty darn organized.

We have a pretty large pantry and it stores a lot of stuff.  Not only do I keep the food in here, but we also have all of our appliances, entertaining pieces, soft coolers, dog water and bowl and more!  So the thing filled up quickly.

Here is a look at how I got it organized and what I used to do it.

I loved these white basket weave baskets from Target in all different sizes for the majority of the pantry.  I loved these white bin clip labels that fit great on the baskets and you can use a dry erase marker to label your baskets.

I used leveled expandable shelves for our canned goods and all of our peanut butter and jellies.

I also used large round lazy Susans in the corners to try and maximize space.  These hold our salad dressings and marinades that are easy to spot.

I used these large glass jar containers in different sizes for all of our dry baking goods.  I bought the labels for each of these containers so long ago, I can’t even remember. I think I found them on Etsy.  But I love these labels from The Home Edit collection.

For all of our cereal, I take them out of the boxes and clip them with a clothes pin and write the name of the cereal on the clothes pin.  I saw this done somewhere and thought it was genius!

I try to make all of our appliances and entertainment items as easily accessible as possible.  Otherwise, we will never use them!  We do have 12 foot ceilings in the pantry, so we have tons of height in here and keep a small step ladder in the pantry for when we need a step.

We love our wooden plates and bowls for entertaining!

So that’s a wrap! I also forgot to mention that we keep our audio equipment in here for our family room TV! So if you look in the photo below, on the left hand side, we have some stereo equipment in there too!!

Overall, I don’t find the pantry to be overly organized where it keeps me from keeping up with it.  I know that I am not the type of person that is going to empty vanilla wafers in a clear container every time I buy them or goldfish or any of that stuff.  So the basket idea helped keep things looking orderly without being organized.

I hope this helps inspire an organized kitchen.  You can shop the items that I used for this project below!