You have some food storage, now where do you put it? The best way to get started:
- De-clutter, de-clutter, and de-clutter some more!
- Get organized and determine just how much space you really have to work with! (I bet you'll be surprised!)
Here are a number of ideas
that will hopefully give you some ideas for your own home:
Building garage overhead storage is great utilization of what would otherwise be dead space. On these shelves you can store all your non-food items which will free up indoor space for food storage.
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| My husband built these shelves pretty quickly and inexpensively. If you're interested in learning more, my email address is at the top of the blog! |
Overhead storage shelves aren't just great in the garage though. Think creatively and put some over the door shelves in your bedrooms or bathrooms too!
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Another idea for indoor storage is to convert a coat closet into the food storage closet. Move all the coats into regular closets.
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Put rotating can racks in any excess closet space as my fellow ward member did in her closets.
This next idea is also from a fellow ward member. They turned their linen closet into a food storage closet. Her husband built excess shelves in their master closet for the excess linens to free up this closet for food.
Consider converting any large closet into a storage pantry
and build shelves all the way to the top to utilize all your space.
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Unused shower? A fellow ward member stores some of her
food there!
Most of us have lots of kids. Perhaps we should use
this woman's idea and utilize all this bed space! Plus, we can save money
by not having to buy bed frames or box springs! 24 boxes (144 cans) under
a twin. Or 36 boxes (216 cans) under a full or queen. Multiply those numbers by the beds in our houses and that's a lot of food storage!
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If your beds already have frames and box springs, you can
raise the beds to store boxes or buckets under the beds.
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Here's another great idea to hide buckets of food and
utilize free space under a cubby shelf.
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Create a "table" in the playroom with food storage
covered in cute fabric.
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This woman made display shelves in her master bedroom by covering
the top of the food storage with plywood and then some fabric.
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Can racks are fairly easy to build and there are a lot of varieties
with the plans on how to build them all over online. Here are some
examples I found:
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Click here for a complete YouTube video of another couple building a great can rack for their pantry (sorry, no picture).
Another family turned their kitchen island into a rotating
can rack where they could load the cans on one side, and retrieve them from the
other.
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This next shelf would take up a lot of space, but it
would be amazing to have a few of these! All the plans are online that
explain exactly how to build your own.
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And here are a few more great ideas, without
the pictures:
•Make a stage in the
playroom by topping boxes of food with plywood and carpet. Hang curtains
on the wall to make it feel like a real theater
•Wide, shallow plastic bins
with wheels for rolling them under the beds
•Create false bottoms in
your closets! Line the floors with cans and top with plywood
•Look for available dead
space in the walls to cut out and make shelves.
•You can put adjustable
organizers under the sink that can fit around all the pipes. It’s a great
way to have shelves in that awkward space.
•The food storage boxes fit
nicely between the wall and the couch
•Stacked boxes of food
storage, covered in fabric can make great end tables
•20 six gallon buckets serve
as a platform for the bed in the spare bedroom
Click here for a few videos that show some additional ideas of how others have utilized space for their food storage. Some of the ideas in these videos that I really liked are:
- using the upper decorative ledges for storing food
- under the bed storage with a map of where each food is located
- extending the shelves in closets so they are wider
- guest bedroom "false" wall (shelves curtained off)
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