After we recovered from a Thanksgiving adventure to New England, we have slowly gotten back to working around the house. One thing that I have wanted is some more pantry space to store small appliances and canned goods. There were some shelves and peg board on the way down the cellar stairs, but it was kind of dark and gross down there and there wasn't enough storage. Its really the perfect place to store winter veggies like potatoes, carrots and beets because it stays pretty cool. Nate installed two new lights and we put up a new wooden shelf along the top of the foundation wall on the way down the stairs, and then put up new wire shelves. Here's a picture of me working on it.I painted everything with porch paint so it would look brighter and clean up more easily. Nate also built me a great canned-goods shelf which holds a lot of stuff. We covered all the exposed insulation with more pegboard. You'll also notice the awesome veggie bins on the bottom shelf - those were just two cheap plastic bins that we cut the front of and then melted the plastic a bit so it wouldn't be sharp. Now I can just reach in and grab a beet or two! Now we have room for things like the dehydrator and I have plenty of room for my winter CSA veggies and lots of cans of salsa and apple sauce.
I even have room for paper goods and cleaning supplies. It looks so much cleaner and more organized down there now, its great.
