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<\/a><\/p>\nThis Pantry Makeover<\/strong> is proof the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.\u00a0 After spending some time on Pinterest the other day, my 16-year old daughter was so inspired, she asked me if she could spruce up our kitchen pantry, and if I happened to have any white paint.\u00a0 My answer to both those questions was an absolute YES…followed by, “Would you like it in eggshell, satin, or semigloss?” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With that, my daughter got right to it!\u00a0 Just like the tree she fell from, this apple had no time for devising a plan.\u00a0 I could hear an immediate raucous from the other room.\u00a0 It would have been a really proud moment for me, except for the fact she forgot to take a Before picture with all our stuff still in the pantry!!!\u00a0 She remembered once it was completely empty, so you’ll have to take our word for it.\u00a0 It was a mess!!!\u00a0 Expired foods, hundreds of plastic grocery bags rolled into a giant ball,\u00a0 and tea bags….an insane<\/em> number of tea bags!\u00a0 At this point, I won’t need to buy tea bags until the winter of 2027.\u00a0 Now that I think about it, it’s a good thing there was no Before picture to show that.\u00a0 These grimy shelves make a bad enough impression on their own.<\/p>\n It took a few hours, but my daughter got the pantry all painted, rolling a layer of crisp white paint on top and underneath each shelf.\u00a0 What a relief!\u00a0 At this point I’m thrilled with how clean and bright everything looks.\u00a0 My daughter, on the other hand, now has to scrub all the paint off her hair!<\/p>\n We let the paint dry overnight and went shopping first thing in the morning.\u00a0 We found this beautiful turquoise print contact paper at Walmart for about 5 dollars a roll, and were able to cover the entire pantry with just three rolls.<\/p>\n Although, our beagle, Miley did an awesome job supervising, I jumped in to lend a hand at this point.\u00a0 My daughter cut, I peeled and pasted, and Miley played tug-of-war with the discarded backing.<\/p>\n We recycled and donated what we could, and still threw away a ton of stuff.\u00a0 And we only put back the essentials, designating a place for everything.\u00a0 While at Walmart, we had picked up a couple of glass jars for the flour and sugar and stuck chalk labels on them.\u00a0 We also got some stackable white containers at the dollar store to organize all the tea bags.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n