Storage...finally!!!

When Michael took the job with Ceres Environmental (where he works now) we had little to no time for apartment hunting. We made one visit up here together in May, and then I had to come back tour them and choose on my own. We are overall pretty happy with the space and the location. The real issue for me has been storage.

We have a total of 5 closets here. You'd think that would be enough, right??? Not at all! We haven't totally unpacked things since we will only be here through December at the latest. There are lots of boxes in closets. 1 closet houses the furnace and litter pan. One houses medicine, paper goods, towels, tools, and boxes. Two are bedroom closets that house clothes, shoes purses, bed linens, and more boxes. The other is a coat closet with, you guessed it, coats.

So, where in all of this does one put pantry items? Since all of the closets are basically on the other end of the apartment from the kitchen, it has been difficult! We had been using a few of our cabinets, but couldn't fit extra two-liters, coke cans, gatorade, and bottled water. So, their place had become a corner of the floor behind the table.

Yesterday Michael and I made a trip to IKEA and here's the solution that we found...