Laurel and I started building these shelves when the family all came over for the 4th of July last year. They are FINALLY finished, and I am SO excited!!!
Some of the rows are pretty tight, but hopefully that won’t be much of an issue. The shelves are slanted so that I can load cans from the back, but take cans for use from the front, so we are always using the oldest cans first. There isn’t much room in the storage room now, so the whole layout is going to need to be rearranged. But we were going to do that after the basement is finished anyways. 🙂 Now it’s SO much easier for me to look and see what we are out of. Love it.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!
I’m SO glad they’re finally finished!! They look GREAT! And it looks like it holds everything like we planned and measured, so that’s AWESOME 😀
My first question is, does it hold everything (or do you still have tons of cans everywhere)?
Second question, looks pretty TIGHT in that room … Are we gonna need to move everything around so it fits better?
Third question: When we come out for family dinner next month, want me to plan to work on anything with you (or are you gonna be a little too pregnant by then ;))?
Again, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!
Those look so nice!! We bought some switch-back shelving a few years back and they were totally worth the investment!!! You’ll love how easy it is to get the cans you need, and like you said, it’s so easy to see what you need. I think it’s amazing you built those by yourself!!! GOOD JOB!!! 🙂
…”and so easy to see what cans you need to buy” (oops!)
I do still have some cans that didn’t fit on the shelves. Like I had more cans of green chilies than would fit in that row (and a couple of other different items like that) so that just means I’m fully stocked on those and don’t need to buy any for awhile. 🙂
It is pretty tight in that room and everything will need to be moved around. But I know we are going to need to move all that stuff out of the way when we get to finishing that room. So I’m not going to worry about rearranging the layout until the room is finished and we are moving everything back in.
And to answer the third question, the next time you guys come out for dinner (if we are planning on getting together Easter weekend) I will be 38 weeks and ready to pop ANY time so I’m not planning any other projects right now. 🙂