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I’m hoping you have seen our final kitchen reveal post and got to see how it all came together! Part of the process was figuring out a solution for a pantry.
In our original plans, half of this wall was going to come down and become an island and the other half would be a panty. Well that all changed when we decided on double ovens and a cooktop. I was totally ok trading an island for these babies. We ended up creating a “coffee nook” to also serve as a landing spot when pulling hot things out of the oven. Creating that space left us with that much smaller of a pantry.
We had moved into our kitchen and had piles of food items on the counters and other places in the house, and I literally couldn’t take it anymore.
My ‘husband handyman’ was so busy working on the whole remodel that he really wasn’t interested in building a pantry. Other things like fixing the sewer pipes, clogged drains and sinks concerned him more. To be honest, he required a little bit of help regarding that. Some of our friends who saw him struggling, recommended us to search for web pages like https://dependablerootersac.com/ to locate plumbers who can do the job in no time. Anyway, that problem is solved for now! If you too are extremely busy like us, but still want to do some home improvements, you might want to check out the interior doors here. Or if you’re like me, then you can take the matter into your own hands.
I headed straight to Home Depot and kindly asked for some help to not only load my MDF onto my cart, but to also cut it precisely to match my amazing sketch.
We loaded it onto a cart and into the car and I was on my way.
Notice anything in this picture? Those are the legs of said husband. He couldn’t stand the thought of me doing this against his will, so he jumped right in and helped.
We used our Kreg Jig to build these units. Trust me when I say, you want a Kreg Jig!
I must say…. having him there made this go much faster, and being that this house was built in 1952 the walls aren’t perfect by any means so having his extra elbow grease to shimmy this in was a win!
The top portion was built custom to fit items that we have in our pantry. Lot’s of Tupperware containers, canned foods and then Misc. boxes. I wanted to make sure there would be no wasted space.
We built both units in one day and got right into the putty and painting process!
Just having this shell was exciting. We didn’t have a plan for the doors at this point although I had seen some that I liked at www.bowalkerdoors.co.uk but I was more focused on the thought of function for the kitchen. That wore off quickly!
About 2 months later after looking at a very cluttered pantry for too long, we decided to build some doors. Neither one of us have ever built anything like this, and to be honest we were pretty hesitant. We drew up some plans and just went for it. Here we are again in our workshop/living room.
We built the frames out of regular pine boards from Lowes. We used 2 sizes to build these.
Once the frames were built, we did a fit check to make sure they were going to work. And they sure did!
We added some bead board paneling to the backside, 3 hinges on each side, some paint, two handles and this is what we got! They turned out WAY better than we had ever imagined. We used the same synthetic oil paint from the kitchen and painted these with a foam roller. The finish turned out great.
Ok, so here is the dirty truth…. the inside is still not finished. I have some fun plans in there, but right now we just keep the doors closed and are happy!
Such a better space with some simple doors. I think these doors would be amazing as sliding barn doors in the right location. So easy, lightweight and have that barn door look.
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It's absolutely FABULOUS!!!!!
WOW! This is just wonderful! Y'all should be really proud of this–it looks awesome!!
Sorry for all the exclamation points, but this is really great. Thank you for sharing it at Grace at Home–I'm featuring you this week!
This is awesome, Jenn! Love, love the barn doors! We are building some this weekend and so glad I found your blog! Would love it if you shared it at our link party in my blog please 🙂 Have a great weekend!
Kendra @ http://www.joyinourhome.com
These look fabulous! Lucky you to have Home Depot do all that for you….I tried having my local Lowe's cut four slab cupboard doors and they claimed they "couldn't do that." There was also no help loading the large board into the car. Pretty nice that your husband ended up helping, too! Your beautiful pantry is part of my features tomorrow at Your Turn to Shine. Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Jamie | anderson + grant
Love your doors! I was wondering what you used to frame the door out of? It looks smaller then 2×4’s. If you would be willing to share that would be great, trying to figure out a way to enclose our small open shelving.
Thanks!