I have always loved organization and my husband will attest to me loving things always being in their proper places (as much as it annoys him haha). But since we’ve been home so much lately (aka all the time) during this pandemic I’ve really taken the organization thing up a notch. We have more food in our home right now than we usually do (since we’re only grocery shopping every 2 or 3 weeks now instead of weekly) and with everyone home all the time I needed a better system. After scouring Pinterest for organized pantries, today I’m sharing some images that are inspiring me and which items I’ve picked up that are helping me achieve my goal of a more functional and beautiful pantry and home.
Rachel Parcell’s pantry below is a dream!
Small spaces can be organized and functional too – a snack drawer for the kids. Image via Rach Parcell
A gorgeous space via Cambridge Home Company.
This pantry via The Home Edit is so organized and colourful.
Below are all the items you need to have an organized space too. I find the OXO pop containers to be very useful. The larger sizes are great for flour, pasta, sugar – all the staples. The smaller ones are great for everything from baking soda to goldfish crackers. I’m especially loving their cereal containers as they make pouring cereal so much easier for my kids. The candy style ones are just so cute for snacks too!
Baskets are great for organizing things like chip bags and any refills for your containers and they hide the things that aren’t always the prettiest to look at.
Bins are perfect for smaller items – like in the photo above of the kids snacks or organizing similar things like sauces and condiments. Turntables are also excellent for sauces or spices and keep things accessible.
Labels are super useful for easily identifying the contents of the containers (since we recycled all the boxes ha). Etsy has tons of cute labels for all the jars and containers!
Lastly I highly recommend The Home Edit book (and their Instagram) for great tips and tricks and inspiration!
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So tell me… have you been organizing a lot lately too?
xoxo,
Rachel
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I always start with some greenery, whether real or faux, as I find it really helps fill the table space and adds a nice warmth to the overall space. This year I used some faux garland and draped it down the middle of the table. I added some red glass ball ornaments throughout the garland to tie in with the red charging plates. I felt like it needed just a little something more so I added some little white ceramic houses and some tall white wood trees for height as well.
I used these classic red charging plates and I layered a simple white dinner plate on top on them. Next I added in these sweet red scallop edged white napkins and these festive dessert plates I’ve had for a few years and absolutely love. They have 4 different words written across them: noel, cheer, joy and wish. So festive right?! You could add in any decorative plates here though: a gold edged plate or a Christmas patterned one. The rest of the table setting is so simple, have some fun with the dessert plates!
