My little house is completely organized and labeled, with everything always in it’s place.
Just kidding, my organizational style right now is “toddler tornado”. This freakishly organized place only exists in my head, and on Pinterest.
Our 1900 “we don’t own many things so we don’t need places for stuff” farmhouse doesn’t leave us with many places to put anything. I’m a firm believer that this has led to a lot of the frustration we’ve experienced with our house – we feel like we’re tripping over each other, and all of the “stuff”.
One of the many lacking areas is counter space in the kitchen. There were so many things just hanging out there. We go through a lot of produce in our house, and half of it doesn’t need to be refrigerated, so we’ve always kept it on the counter in a wire basket.
It was cute at first, I thought. That didn’t last long before I realized that we were just consolidating the clutter into one bigger basket of clutter, so we had to find another solution.
Source: Target
We have a blank wall in our pantry, so I wanted to use that vertical space by hanging storage baskets. I searched online and in stores for a few months before running across the perfect one: the Threshold 3-slot wire basket with hooks.
I needed more than three baskets, so I bought two of these with the intention of hanging one on top of the other. I only wanted hooks on the bottom baskets, so we removed the hooks on one of the two. They were surprisingly easy to twist and snap off of the bottom, without damaging the baskets themselves. Super easy! I love having the hooks there to hang our reusable shopping bags.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of chalkboard labels for each of the bins, but haven’t committed yet because we tend to buy different kinds of produce depending on the season.
The farm fresh sign was something I painted at a pallet party that my sister-in-law hosted last Mother’s Day – we were able to pick the design we wanted, and I chose this one with the pantry in mind. It was a blast to make, and fits the space perfectly.
Hanging them was simple, and now we have the perfect storage solution.
Have a great week!