Budget Friendly, Rented Accommodation Pantry Makeover

First off, let me apologise for the long wait for a post. My blog is just a blog, I post when I get chance as my family are my priority.

Anyway back to business. I know there are a lot of pantry makeovers out their, but mine is a tad different. We live in the UK in rented accommodation and our "pantry" is an IKEA cupboard haha.

Our makeover cost us nothing because we used materials we had, obviously there may be a cost if you didn't have all the materials.

We used:
Glue
Wallpaper
Baskets
And other tubs we had to hand (the glass pots from coffee for example)

I removed the door and hubby tucked that up in the guest bedroom ready to go in the attic, we had decided the door was just a nuisance and so we wanted to try without the door for a while and see how we got on. While he was lugging that upstairs I pulled everything out the pantry and popped the shelves out, gave them a wipe down and measured where we wanted our wallpaper.

I cut the length but not the width, then we were able to place the wallpaper in and fold it to size once we liked the positioning. Then I cut along the folds while my hubby fiddled around with the glue. We started sticking using the screws from the shelves as markers. Once we were past a screw section we'd pop the shelf back in and carry on with the next section.

Once all the actual decorating was done we needed to decide what went where. We knew we wanted two child friendly height shelves to hold the lunch things (the slim fast tub on the shelf is actually full of cheese savouries) and that we wanted tins at the bottom as that way if they got knocked over less damage to toes would be done.

We wanted our baking stuff towards the top, but easy for me to reach. The rest we kind of made up as we went along. We then made sure everything on the shelves were easily accessible. With that idea in mind we took it one shelf at a time starting at the bottom.

It took us under 3 hours including clearing up afterwards. And (in our opinion) looks fantastic.

As I've said before though, I'm not happy unless it's functional for our home and lifestyle. So I waited to post until it had been given a fair chance and I can honestly say it is a life saver. We can see what we have in and when our son or our friends kids want something to eat we can go to the pantry and they just grab a plate or bowl and grab what they want. It has taken so much hassle out of feeding everyone.