The pantry area in the house is always messy because of how much that area is used. Almost everything you need to cook and make food with is in the pantry. All your food items and snacks are in the pantry along with other things that you need to cook with. All these things together put in a space can make the area look messy or not organized properly. It is important to organize the pantry and properly keep things so that it looks good and tidy and you do not have any hard time finding things in the pantry.
You need to organize your pantry in a good and clean manner so that the pantry area looks good. Here are some of the ideas you can use to create more storage and organize things in the pantry.
1: Use mesh baskets for easy access
When you are organizing your pantry you need to make sure that all the items in the pantry are easy to access and you can locate anything in the pantry in a minute. To do so you need to get some nice, good quality, wire or mesh baskets to that you can see what is inside the basket without having to get every basket out to look for things. Mesh baskets are good to keep things and make the pantry look airy and open, whereas those thick, opaque ones make the place look a bit dark and dull.
2: Sliding shelves in the pantry
For a small pantry, you should get some sliding shelves installed that can easily slide in and out of the pantry. These shelves are ideal for an extremely small pantry where you cannot get to the last item put on the shelves without removing the ones ahead or tumbling things here and there. These sliding shelves provide you with the option to get things from the back of the shelves without breaking or creating a mess.
3: Behind the door storage
You can create some extra space in the pantry by installing some shelves, such as a mesh shelf behind the door of the pantry. You can then have extra shelves to put the items in. this way you can create a tidy and nice pantry without having to worry about the messy area or things being placed messily in the area or you not being able to access the things in the back.
4: Use can risers
If you use a lot of cans and you might forget about some that are in the back or if you cannot locate them in the pantry, you can look for some can risers. These risers create space to place more cans in a place and let you see all the cans you have in the pantry making it easy for you to get them and adequately organize them. These can risers not only provides you with space to keep the cans but also make the pantry look good and nice, and organized properly. You can get another thing as well to keep all the other snacks and drinks in an organized manner.
5: Get some spinning lazy susans
Lazy susans help a lot in the pantry. Usually, when you organize the sauces and the jars and bottles you tend to place the taller ones behind and the shorter ones ahead. But if you need the taller ones then you need to get them carefully without harming the ones ahead. Sometimes one even forgets about some of the things in the corner or behind all the food items. It is better to get some lazy susans and place your food items like jars, bottles, and spices on them so that you can rotate and spin them to get what you want without creating a mess in the pantry.
Conclusion
These are some of the simple and easy ways you can create some space and some ideas on how you can organize your pantry. It is not a difficult task to achieve. You can use these ideas and some other ideas to create a nice and tidy pantry with things placed in their assigned location so that it is easy for you to know where things are and to get them when you need them. These ideas can be used in a small pantry as well as a large walk-in pantry.