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Pantry Project......(finished pics pg 2)

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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well....24 hours makes a big difference in how it looks. It's not finished yet.....the goal is shelves.

Somehow or another my pantry never got completed when we moved into the house. Then it got taken over by horse stuff. All my canned goods have lived in a kitchen cabinet all these years. Well...now that I'm doin some serious canning...there's just not room for all of it in the cabinet. So....I told Mr Lilly....I want my pantry finished. So yesterday we took off for Lowe's and bought the needed supplies, which totalled a whoppin $46. Came home and started about 6pm.
This is what it looked like before.....just studs showin lol
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Couple hours later....we had the sheetrock up....
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So I got busy taping and floatin the seams......got all of it done first coat.
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This mornin I got up and started at it again...while Mr Lilly went to a car show. :roll: Got the second coat up....while it dried I was painting all the lumber for the shelves...so that I wouldn't hafta paint them after they are put up....that would be a real chore. Finished up right before supper painting....
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Another corner....
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Kinda funny. I did all the taping and floating the walls in our whole house......Mr Lilly did the ceilings...(cuz I get drunk on a ladder lookin up)
That was probably 12 years ago....and it turned out just as good, if not better than all the previous tapin and floatin I did in the house. LOL

Now...to get Mr Lilly busy with the shelving. It's all painted and ready to cut the stuff out....and then mount it on the walls. I'm so excited....finally will have a pantry. But I'm also give smooth out.
 
You do good work, Lilly. Not really a fun job, but you have made short work of it and it's onward and upward. Good for you.

HP
 
katrina said:
Looks really nice lilly... I am in a cabinet from hell movie right now... Really frustrating... :mad:
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I think I'm co-starrin in that same movie. Haha could be one of the longest runnin episodes....

You know....while I was workin on the closet...it was quiet...and I got to thinkin. All the cannin women usta do...where did they put it all? They didn't have hardly any cabinets in their kitchens....and there wasn't any such thing as a pantry in most homes. Mr. Lilly's granny kept all her stuff in the washhouse. Which was out the back door..and across the yard. I wondered if that was how most did it.
We never had a pantry growin up. But we did have decent size kitchens with lots of cabinets. But mom never put that kinda stuff in the cabinets. I can't for the life of me figure out where she put it. I have no clue. Is that not weird or what?
 
well dang, I thought the title said panty project...I was expecting a different set of pictures....LOL
 
That's a beautiful pantry. You can never have too many cupboards, or shelves, as far as I'm concerned. We converted a broom closet into a tiny pantry by putting shelves in it, but it's nowhere near big enough for the amount of canning I do. :shock:

We built a room in our basement, in a corner, and insulated it on the ceiling, and the walls that face toward the inside of the house. The outside basement walls are not insulated, so in our climate that makes this whole room into a refrigerator in the winter. We are still using potatoes from last year's garden. They're starting to soften up now, but I think we'll be good until the new ones are ready.

Post some pictures with shelves and jars on them! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh well, back to the rhubarb jelly..................
 
I will add pictures of the shelves when we get those done. Gonna be balin hay this afternoon....so I dunno when we will get the shelves up. It's always somethin. If I luck out and don't hafta ride the tractor...I will be shellin peas LOL

.....picked two rows last night before it got too dark to see......so I need to go back to the garden and pick the rest of them, 6 more rows.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
katrina said:
Looks really nice lilly... I am in a cabinet from hell movie right now... Really frustrating... :mad:
Click to expand...

I think I'm co-starrin in that same movie. Haha could be one of the longest runnin episodes....

You know....while I was workin on the closet...it was quiet...and I got to thinkin. All the cannin women usta do...where did they put it all? They didn't have hardly any cabinets in their kitchens....and there wasn't any such thing as a pantry in most homes. Mr. Lilly's granny kept all her stuff in the washhouse. Which was out the back door..and across the yard. I wondered if that was how most did it.
We never had a pantry growin up. But we did have decent size kitchens with lots of cabinets. But mom never put that kinda stuff in the cabinets. I can't for the life of me figure out where she put it. I have no clue. Is that not weird or what?
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My grandma put hers in the basement. The only basement I know of on the Texas Gulf Coast. She had jars down there covered in spider webs and the contents unidentifiable. I guess she knew what was in them and that's what counted. She had a little stool down there to stand on as she was only about 4'5" tall and those shelves went up to the ceiling. She did put up some nice pickled okra and she had a way of canning those rock hard pears so they turned out sweet and soft!
 
Up here many people had what they called a 'root cellar.'
It was dug into a bank and covered up with dirt. They had a door in the front. Worked good, too! But a dark, scary place for a kid. I had
to sit out what my mom thought was a tornado in one of them once...
All we had was a flashlight and the batteries went dead. :shock:

I never liked those places after that... :P
 
Haha only cellars around Texas are "Storm Cellars" ..... but not in this part of Texas...ground's too wet for cellars here.

Mr. Lilly's Granny had a 55 gallon barrel buried in the ground....with the lid at ground level. That's where she stored cabbages and potatoes. But I only heard stories about that. It was gone by the time I joined the family.
 
In Pennsylvania my Grandma and mother kept all the huge canning supplies in their basements but you mentioning a wash house, considering the heat that is produced it would have made more sense to heat the canner outside...

Anyway, lucky you having a pantry. That is such a blessing for a busy cook. A shame so many homes are built without one. I don't have one but put open shelves in the laundry room which works well since it is right beside the kitchen.
 
Oh my gosh.......I just went to the garden...picked the first two rows of peas....again. I can't seem to make it thru all 8 rows. It's HOT out there. Maybe I'll get a second wind after shellin the one's I picked, and go pick somemore later this evenin.

I think I'm gonna hafta hire help....or open the gate to pickers and charge by the lb. LOL :shock:
 
Faster horses said:
Up here many people had what they called a 'root cellar.'
It was dug into a bank and covered up with dirt. They had a door in the front. Worked good, too! But a dark, scary place for a kid. I had
to sit out what my mom thought was a tornado in one of them once...
All we had was a flashlight and the batteries went dead. :shock:

I never liked those places after that... :P
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We had the same things but I thought we called them "fruit cellars" because of all the mason jars of canned fruits they usually had in them. And as you said, they doubled for storm cellars many times. As time passed, many people built pump houses large enough to not only contain the pump pressure tank but also with shelves for the jars of canned goods. We would spread our potatoes out on the wood floor in the smokehouse and sprinkle them with lime. The smokehouse had no windows and was dark like the cellar. It also contained our country hams,pork, etc. as we usually had "hog killing" around Thanksgiving each year when I was a kid, too warm now to do that now.
 
I only have 46 tomato plants...and they are loaded~!......I picked again this evenin.....didn't make it thru but two more rows.....At least the four rows I have picked are zipper peas and easy to shell.
 

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