 All right guys, so I have a lot to do today and I'm just cutting right to the chase. I emptied out my pantry and we do rent this house. There is a possibility that some point we will purchase it but for now we are renters. So we aren't going to do things that take a lot of money or if it's not necessary right now. So obviously I would rip this shelving all out if this was my pantry and completely start over with good solid shelves and a different layout. But since we're renting, I'm just going to wash up the walls in here. I'm going to do a little trick with the shelves which we'll get there in a second. But the first thing I'm gonna do is actually get some lighting in here because there is no light in this pantry and you guys have heard me talk about Gove before. I have partnered up with them before and they are bringing the lighting to this situation. So I actually have quite a few of their products around our house. Here I'll run out and show you another one. So this is in our canopy over our patio. You can see they have string lights. I also have a lighting above my countertop that is similar to the strip light that I'm gonna be using in the pantry. All right, back to the pantry situation. So one of the things I love about Gove's products is they have lots of lighting options but their stuff is smart. So you do have a button included with this style lighting because this is what I have over my countertops but you can also turn it on with your phone and an app which is really convenient and fun. I know at Christmas time we had done like green and red, you know like you can do all kinds of fun things with it. Another thing that's really great to do with these is put them behind your TV. So it gives like a lighting that comes from behind your TV and a really fun ambience to the room. Let me open this up and show you what we're working with. Basically you can stick it on things which is of course super renter friendly. You're not having to wire things in or if you just want something that's just so easy and you don't have to hire somebody to wire things in. Also it comes with a one year extended warranty, 24 hour customer service and guys to be honest these are super, super well priced. It's a very inexpensive option to get a huge change in your space. They do come with like extra little brackets if you need to screw them onto the wall but generally they do really well just sticking right to the wall or under your cabinet wherever you're putting them. So I will put this little switch inside the door so we can just click push the button and turn on the light inside the pantry. Okay I am so impressed. I'll turn them on here in a second. It does take an outlet to plug them in so I don't have one in here. There is one on the other side of this wall and like I said, if this was my own house I would do a lot of different things like rewiring in here but I have some extension cord here that I'm actually gonna wind up and put in that little box right there and it'll just get plugged in around the corner. So here is my little switch and I'm gonna climb in here and there you can see I stuck it the whole way around the door. So all you have to do and somebody had patched up a bunch of little holes in here this closet really needs repainted but and then all you have to do is push the power button and it turns them on and it's nice and bright and light in here and the thing I like about this a lot is because it's on this side of the wall it's shining that way and I don't have to worry about putting lighting under each shelf it just lights up the whole pantry and we can see what we're doing so here I'll turn them off so that's what it looks like with them off that's what it looks like with them on so much better. All right now I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do the shelves. So I got this foam board and then I also have this white contact paper and I'm actually gonna wrap the shelves with the foam board I'm gonna cut it and then finish it off with contact paper to make it like waterproof and just a little more finished looking so you don't see these splices in the foam board and I'm going to wash the walls up a little bit that paint obviously would be the best thing but I just wanna get this done and I wanna have it looked nice and organized and I am reusing a bunch of the bins I had in here and then I also picked up some new things that will be super useful to us. All right, initially I thought I was going to like do a time lapse of me doing this but because it's such a small space I think I'm just gonna stop as I'm making progress and show you cause to really you know for you to be seeing what I'm actually doing it's kinda difficult cause I'm in my own way so this shelf is pretty much finished it's wrapped in the contact paper it has the poster board or the foam board underneath of it and it just looks really nice and finished I've also decided that this next week I'm actually going to paint in here it's just it's so marked up and stuff I don't have time to do it today just because I wanna get all of my cleaning done or at least half the house done today and so yeah but it will look even more nice and clean finished whenever it's painted but for now I'm going to work on this part of things so the first thing that I did to make the shelf is I cut a board on the width of the actual shelf so these are 12 inch shelves and then the front of it is an inch and a half so I cut myself a piece like this and I'm just using a utility knife and a little tip for you if you want it to be super straight is just lay a board over the other board and then use that kind of as your ruler if that makes sense so these go on the fronts of this and I actually had gotten five poster boards I needed four shelves and I'm really glad I did because now this one it's not wrapped yet it just has the poster board on it it doesn't have the contact paper which I really would encourage you to use contact paper just because this is waterproof and it'll be a little more durable than just like the paper part of the poster board but since I had an extra one I'm actually going to stick this up inside here just to give it a little more of a finished look because that top shelf like you can see you'll be able to see that the shelf is wrapped whereas like the rest of them are at eye level but this one since it's above us it will actually you'll be able to see it so since I had this extra board I'm actually going to put that up in there just to give it even more of a finished look and yeah, so this is a little hack I'm actually thinking I may do this in my laundry room here in the next couple of weeks because I have a long shelf that looks like this in my laundry room and I may do like a wood look to wrap it because you could make it look like a wooden shelf depending on the contact paper you used and I did tape like this here is all taped to the wire shelf I just used like a clear packing tape and it's also taped like right here just to tape the front part on and it's like not, I kind of was afraid it might be kind of wobbly or you know not very stable feeling and it's very stable feeling so and then the ends these types of shelves here let's see if I can show you on this one so these shelves sit into the clip and what I did is I actually wrapped I just wrapped it around the front and then just sat it right into the clip and this part in case you have shelving like this because a lot of people do this part I did not do to the length of the shelf I just did it here just to give it a nice front because I tried to go without doing that front part and you could see through the contact paper so you could see the bars through it and it just didn't look very finished it's not 110% perfect but I don't know about you guys but our pantry door, we have a door on our pantry but it does hang open a lot so the fact that something looks pretty on the inside Everly, Kailia asked me what I was doing and Everly said, oh mom's making the pantry look pretty so yeah and of course the whole thing of repainting this will definitely help the situation too I hope this inspires you and I'm gonna keep rolling and getting everything put together here and I'll check back in in a sec because they are completely done I'm so happy so what I'm gonna do is put in all of my bins that I had in here and then also I'm gonna fill up a few containers I got and I'm going to put a little lazy Susan here for all of our olive oil, coconut oil, things that we kinda grab out of here pretty regularly and then I will fill all of my bins back up with the things that need to go in here I've got this feeling I'm feeling you could be the one I see no reason why I should ever let you go I don't wanna wake up if I'm dreaming because you know I can't get enough of this feeling you're giving me Okay, I have everything put in here I'm so happy with how this looks and with the bins all in here it makes it a little more bearable that it's not repainted I think on camera you can't see it as well but there is really a lot of marks and things on the walls in here so and this hook is where I hang my broom and then the other thing that goes in here is our trash can and then there's usually a little spot that when my husband's not working I put his lunch box so yeah these bins are kind of like modular buildable bins and a lot of this stuff I picked up at Target up here is where I have a bunch of Ziploc bags tin foil, saran wrap, that kind of thing I don't have a ton of drawers in my kitchen so I kind of have to find places to put things that you would generally put in a drawer so that I put up there this one's empty right now and then in here I have canned goods and these two this one's just kind of random stuff like salad dressing and peanut butter and stuff like that this is our candy bin so when I get fruit snacks and stuff like that I put them in there here I wanted this size I really didn't want anything smaller than this because I feel like whenever they're bigger these are like more of a cereal size container but I feel like then I can get you know a big quantity of something the kind of rule of thumb that I want to roll with is that they have two cereals so when we go grocery shopping they go with me at times they can pick out two cereals which they're all about the frosted flakes right now and then this one's a new one and then two like a salty snack and a sweet snack so this is what we have going on right now and obviously the lazy Susan which I think both Corey and I are gonna be so happy about because this was something that yeah we just really needed a place for all of our oils and things like that and I did have it in this bin and it just was really inconvenient to have to pull that out since we use these things a lot so I really like this also this is the first time in any of my organizing and cleaning and stuff that I've ever used a lazy Susan and now I'm really considering getting some for under our bathroom sinks just because they're so nice and I feel like it just makes life a little bit easier to not have to dig through things down here this is like a snack bin with extra snacks and then this bin I actually put in a bunch of my like sweeteners and baking mixes because I do a lot of like gluten free and keto friendly baking so I needed a place for my special ingredients and then down in here is like all of my like keto snacks stuff that I eat a lot of and this one is all about coffee it's bagged coffee extra cake ups that don't fit in my canister on my coffee bar those kind of things and then these two actually I have been kind of using them for extra drinks we have a drink refrigerator in our garage that I put a lot of things in I also put stuff in the refrigerator here in the kitchen but not always does it fit and usually I buy these are all by drinks and I had hit a really good sale with them I generally buy our bottled or canned drinks whenever they're on sale so a lot of times I have excess so these bins that's where I keep it all because I get like bubblies whenever they're you know so much for three or four boxes at a time and then we need space to just stick it somewhere so that's where it ends up going and yeah, I can't believe how well these little strips literally light up this whole entire pantry I'm so happy with how it looks and this pantry has been dark for far too long and just we've needed a light in here for whenever we're looking for things so I think now I'm going to go ahead and tackle some of my other cleaning I hope this video inspired and motivated you don't forget to check out the links in the description box to try Grove products today like I said, we've used them for a while and really like them if you're new here don't forget to hit the subscribe button give this video a like for me and I will see you guys in my next video