The Pantry

I'm going to show you my almost completed pantry because I just can't wait any longer to show you.  This little gem used to be our bathroom, but as you remember we moved our bathroom to where the wet-bar used to be.  This room works perfectly for our pantry and since I haven't had a pantry in this house or the house before.  I'm beyond thrilled.  What I was using as my pantry were some cabinets beside my fridge that were so deep that things always seemed to go missing.

We removed all the old fixtures (cabinet, sink, toilet, vent fan, mirror, light) and started from scratch.  We built the cabinet with the purpose to house an RO System that will be fed directly through the wall to our fridge. The other side of it holds our recycling bins.

Then we have shelving built for the rest of the pantry. A new light was installed in the ceiling since our previous one was mounted on the wall. The picture below shows the shelving that was built when you turn to the right. So, I have plenty of room in there.

We moved everything in even though there are a few more things to do.  We still need to texture the ceiling where the old vent fan was located, remove the toilet water supply valve from the wall and custom built spice racks have also been promised in my future.

My House

I wanted to share with you a few pictures of what is going on at our house right now.  We are having some major foundation work being done.  Here is a picture of the back of the house. 

Here are the pilings that they are driving into the holes on the exterior of our house.  They are reaching a depth of 20 feet.  Amazing!

Here is a picture of one of the holes on the inside of our house.  Yes, they had to put 16 interior piers under our house which they accomplished by jack-hammering through our slab.  Concrete dust is everywhere, as you will see in the next picture.

 

The hearth is black, so that nice white layer is concrete dust. 

Here is a picture of my kitchen.  The board is covering up one of the holes and the one on the left is the start of another hole they are jack-hammering out. We tried to tape off and cover as much as we could before they got started, but as you see from the fireplace above, we forgot a few places. 

There are several more pictures as in every room on the first floor has holes in them, but I won't bore you with anymore of them.  In the future, you might start seeing more interior design posts from me and DIY how-to's for a little while.  We will be spending all our free time with the repairs after the foundation work is complete, i.e. putting in new floors, patching and painting, etc.  I promise I won't abandon my crafts, but this has to be taken care of first.