Think outside the box

Just because the house “says” that a space is supposed to be the pantry, it doesn’t mean we have to use it that way!

In our townhouse, our pantry was teeny tiny! No matter how much I organized and rearranged, I couldn’t fit everything into the small space

But the coat closet was close to the kitchen, so at first I put a set of cheap storage

shelves in the closet and used it to hold additional pantry supplies…

Eventually, we decided to relocate our coats entirely and turn the whole coat closet into a pantry. The setup worked much better for our family and kept our kitchen space a lot tidier too!

So the moral of the story is: don’t be afraid to rearrange and try different configurations with your space! You might find a better setup than how the space was intended to be used!