Our little addition

No I'm not making any announcements...


Well not along the lines you were thinking anyway.


I was talking about the addition of our beautiful little pantry. It all started about a year ago when I voiced out loud (after a game of hand and foot where Teressa and I trashed our significant others) how I wanted to turn a hall closet into a kitchen pantry. That got her and I thinking up plans for our mans. (I know it's men, I'm just a poet and don't know it today. - chillax) I took a few pictures of the process. I wish I had thought to take a serious Before shot but alas I did not. Anyhoo...





Okay this picture of the kitchen was taken while our house was being built but it gives you a good idea of what it all looked like. Now if you look at the left of the pictures you can see a door. That goes to a ridiculously small coat closet. (I live in AZ - no need for a coat closet.) Now see the tall cabinet just right of the door and small wall? THAT was meant to be a pantry. PUHLEEZ! Okay stay with me now. Before Darren's parents came last week Darren and I removed the cabinet from it's location in the pictures and moved it over to the dining room on the right side of the window you see there. It was always about adding storage here so no way was I getting rid of the cabinet. We also took the trim, door and frame out of the hall so we could reuse it as the pantry door.


Darren's parents arrived on the scene Friday Nov 7th. We let grandpa take it easy for a minute and then told him to get to work. Okay not really because no one tells Jerry to get to work...unless she's Teressa...and then again, maybe not even her.

We all got in on the action until Grandpa couldn't handle us any longer. The kids loved tearing down the walls. The white spot on the wall is where the tall cabinet used to stand. We are busting into the back of the closet here from the kitchen side of the wall.

Okay not the most flattering of angles, but this picture was taken by one my short people so really who cares? Even I got in on the busting up. Grandpa had taken the two boys (what was he thinking?) to Lowes for some supplies.

Okay everything old is out and now it's time to start building the new. This is where myself and my camera left the premises because we weren't any help. We just kept supplying the Sonic cherry limeades to the guys and they kept at it.


And now it's done! Isn't it so pretty? It has shelves on three sides, a light, matching tile from the kitchen, and it'll hold a lot of cereal boxes. Thanks for spending your working vacation with us Jerry and Teressa. Only one complaint though...we never got our chance to beat you at hand and foot this visit. Well, there's always Christmas. ;)