Pantry Organization with Mason Jars| FARMHOUSE KITCHEN
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Our little farmhouse kitchen was in dire need of a little tidying up, or should I say, a complete overhaul. Watch me attempt pantry organization with mason jars and a sharpie paint pen.
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There was a bit of a problem lurking behind the cabinet doors here at the farmhouse.
Instead of a layout that made sense, plates near the dining room and food near the stove, things were scattered throughout with no rhyme or reason.
We don't have a traditional walk in pantry here, so all our food has to be stored in the cabinets. When we first moved in I kind of just started putting things up there with no particular plan. Canned goods, dried quinoa, and condiment staples were shoved in the far right cabinet. Baking goods hung out in another area. Spices were over by the stove, and vitamins were to the right of the sink.
I hadn't revisited that original setup in over nine years. #reallife
I was ready to do something about my disheveled mess of a pantry, or lack thereof.
Organization totally isn't my strong suit. That's why my only advice for keeping a tidy house involves being a minimalist and getting rid of everything that doesn't bring joy. It is the only way I can stay on top of the clutter. Instead of storing it in nicely labeled bins and totes, I just get rid of it with reckless abandon.
But food, well.... you need it. The more you have, the better. And therein lies the problem. Organization is a must.
I took everything out of the cabinets, and got rid of quite a few mugs and plates that we never use. I just kept enough bowls/plates in our cabinets that we use for a meal. Half the time they don't even get put back up there. It's just eat, rinse, repeat.
I also took this opportunity to clean up, and paint, the insides of my cabinets. The people who lived here before painted the insides blue. Since the color wasn't totally offensive, I left it. I mean who has time to paint the inside of cabinets?! Not me. But I'm glad I finally I did it. Everything looks so fresh and tidy with a couple coats of white. I used the same chalk paint I always use. It goes over just about any surface without any prep work.
I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon researching the best options for dry food storage. I knew I wanted glass, to avoid the chemicals in plastic. They would also have to be pretty, of course. I loved loved looved the look of weck jars, but they are so darn expensive and the clamp/gasket setup can be a total pain. Well wouldn't you know it, I came full circle right back around to my beloved mason jars. They are cheap, durable and pretty. Should have known. Plus, I love that I can get plastic lids so I don't have to worry about rust with the metal lids....
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FAQ about food storage in glass jars
Since my spice cabinet organization post, I have had a lot of questions about where I keep the extra spices that didn't fit in the little jars I used. For the spices, I didn't really have that problem. For a few of my most used spices, that I buy in bulk, I just filled two spice jars, so I can have the extra right in front of me on display. All the others were the right amount to fit in the jars.
However, I did have that problem for things like oatmeal, flour, shredded coconut, popcorn and quinoa. Since I buy those things in bulk, I did have quite a bit leftover from my display. Since our upper cabinets are very tall, and difficult to access, I have a ton of extra space up there. I hardly store anything in those upper cabinets, so now I have one dedicated to bulk "refill" items.
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FAQ about food storage in glass jars
Since my spice cabinet organization post, I have had a lot of questions about where I keep the extra spices that didn't fit in the little jars I used. For the spices, I didn't really have that problem. For a few of my most used spices, that I buy in bulk, I just filled two spice jars, so I can have the extra right in front of me on display. All the others were the right amount to fit in the jars.
However, I did have that problem for things like oatmeal, flour, shredded coconut, popcorn and quinoa. Since I buy those things in bulk, I did have quite a bit leftover from my display. Since our upper cabinets are very tall, and difficult to access, I have a ton of extra space up there. I hardly store anything in those upper cabinets, so now I have one dedicated to bulk "refill" items.
All sources for the things I used for this project are linked above. :)
Looks great! Makes me want to buy more mason jars for sure. 😂 I LOVED you letting your daughter paint alongside you. So precious. ❤️
I love the chalkboard in the inside of the cabinets.
I LOVE mason jars. I use them in my pantry as well. I also use them in my refrigerator for some foods. When I get home from the grocery store, I wash my grapes and take them off the stems and put them in mason jar. Also, with strawberries, I will wash them and take the green tops off and store them in a mason jar. They will last 2 weeks and sometimes longer...that is if we don't eat them first. I also put my lettuce in mason jars and then use my jar sealer to seal them and the lettuce doesn't get brown.
I love it! You inspire me and you are half my age! Which goes to show that it doesn't matter how old we are, you can learn from people who are younger than you. We are going to paint our kitchen white and I will do the inside of the cupboards white and I love the glass mason jars and how you refill them. Love you and keep on keepin your home!
I'm not sure if you are a eco friendly person but what you did here is the perfect start to using less plastic and buying in bulk to refill your jars (which I know you already do) or going to refill shops to refill them without packaging. Super awesome video. Definitely got me inspired!
Your little girl is a powerhouse just like you.
Perfect timing. I'm buying a house without a pantry. This seems so doable, despite everyone telling me I'm crazy. I'm going to do a hard edit on everything in the kitchen before I love. This should help too. Thanks.
Meredith Simpson my husband and I also don't have a pantry. This video was so inspiring!
Yes to a hard edit. :) So much easier to manage!
I LOVE how your daughter is helping you...including the painting task!!
I love the mason jars too!! It’s amazing how the uniformity of them makes it so much more organized and it seems like everything fits better too.
Love the tea set. Looks like one I left in Missouri when my husband and I divorced. Lol
The white was a huge improvement, and all that branding on the packages stacked together in cupboards is so busy. The jars give a great deal of order to it all. I'm so impressed. Now to find jars. They are a bit scarce these days. I will keep looking. The white is key. Love the white. I will buy no other color. Thanks!
You should try labeled baskets for the items on the top shelf so things don't get lost in the back and are more easily accessible.
Great video I'm moving back out on my own in a week and needed this video
the white just changing everything. Well done.. cant wait to see the laundry
Thank you so much Emily! 😊
I love the Mason jars im redoing my pantry/hallway with mason jars
Lisa, love it! I’m definitely doing this. I wanted to tell you that I make my own liquid laundry soap and I store it in 12 quart mason jars. It is so pretty. It’s a concentrate so I add one quart of soap to two quarts of water in an old detergents bottle and just just that bottle lid to measure like I would regular soap. Been doing that for five years now and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. I think it’s the Duggar recipe. I use three bars of soap instead of two.
that blue looked so great
Beautiful kitchen! I love storing in glass jars and purchased the plastic lids as well. After using them for a few years, this is what I discovered: they are NOT leak proof! If they are not leak proof then they must not be keeping my food as fresh. I went back to using the canning lids and rings. If I find they are becoming rusty, I recycle and put a new one on. I have large bags of extra rings! LOL Keep up the good work! Enjoying your videos!
I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my UA-cam channel, so I get excited when I see people spreading positivity. 💙❤
We use glass jars in our pantry too! It's organized and I can easily see when I am getting low on things. Great use of your space!
Also a tip for you make sure you write on the expiration date too on the bottom of the jars. btw I love you kitchen and the way you organize it
aletiz17 yes, good reminder!
Oooh yes great tip!!
I just went through our kitchen and I was able to donate half a tub of things we no longer used. I realized we held on to sooo many things thinking that we’ll use them “eventually”.
I love those tall mason jars with the plastic lids. I also keep spaghetti/salsa mason jars with the black or silver lids. I have found many uses for those smaller jars too, like I used to make "sun" tea in them and store the brewing tea in the frig after the water cooled down -- two jars of "sun" tea makes a gallon of iced tea, whether real tea or herbal. I like the idea of your chalkboard cabinet doors. I have written out easy breakfast recipes and snack ideas for my guys and taped them to the back of the doors with clear postal tape. I think it's time to repaint the inside of my cabinets too. Thanks for the inspiration!
I liked the blue on the inside of the cabinets
Looking at this video again in 2019.This is one of the first I ever saw of Farmhouse on Boone! One of my favorites because, of Lisa and her little girl working together, or her little girl working all by herself sometimes, is very impressive( and heart warming)!💗💗
I just recently cleaned out all of my Tupperware and use mason jars too! Love it so much! I hate plastic!
Yes!! I sooo prefer glass too! :)
Me too
Glass is the way to go! I personally don’t like plastic for the fact it’s not healthy and the lids are always a disaster to store. Class jars are much less porous and can be cleaned much better. I’m curious to know where I can get the mason jars with the white lids?
@@queensryke1 have tried the plastic rubbermaid containers they stack pretty well.
@@queensryke1 I purchase the white lids for my Mason jars on Amazon but have also purchased some at Wal-Mart. They may be available in other stores too.
Lisa! Love your videos, keep em coming! I just found your blog like 2 weeks ago and have already ordered some swaddle blanket fabric, made sourdough English muffins, and hunted my local thrift stores like a champ, influenced by you. :) Be well, big thanks from Vancouver, Canada!
Thank you so much Bethany!
I too ended up going back to my mason jars for almost everything. So clean and neat.
I’ve never seen the plastic lids! Those are genius. I loved your spice jar storage too. Contemplating purchasing those for our drawer. Thanks for sharing.
I love the big mason jars. I got the package of 6 last summer and use them for my flour, sugar, brown sugar, oatmeal and pancake mixes. I like the white lid idea so I may have to get some of those.
Years ago before I started making homemade sauces i used to buy the Classico spaghetti sauce. I saved all of those jars for different items in my kitchen because they are mason jar's. And they have the ounces on the side of the jar as well
pennylane36 and that’s a very resourceful way to do it!
Love the painted white inside the cabinets! Jars look awesome!
😂l was going to say how much l loved the blue...then you took out the paint. priceless.
Haha too funny!
My husband loves sardines also. Now he has my 7 year old daughter eating it too😃
Everything looks so clean and fresh now! All the glass jars are so pretty too! I can't wait to see the laundry room!
Domer Home thank you so much Lindsey!
I love the white mason jar lids. They don't rust and I'd have to find a 2 part lid and I can put them in the dishwasher. 👍🏼
Been slowly trying to organize pantry, but knew deep down I really need to take everything out and just do it. Thanks for the inspiration! Great video!
Just an FYI, I have a friend who eats very healthy. He makes his own fermented foods, he has sprouts of all kinds he grows etc. Despite that he started having severe health issues. Neurological symptoms etc. They traced it back to his love of tinned fish. Sardines and conch and others. They have a high heavy metal content and over time this had built up in his brain. I'd research this since this is something your husband eats as well. LOVE LOVE LOVE your content and your gorgeous home.
Lol, I actually thought what a lovely colour the insides were. Lovely layout but the slight tin ocd I have wanted all the labels facing forward like the jars!! 😉 love those wide mouth jars.
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and I really enjoyed it! It was beautifully shot, well edited, and you gave great narration throughout the video. You and your daughter did a beautiful job! I look forward to exploring your catalog of videos to see what else you have to check out. Thank you for your time and hard work to produce a useful video!
Looks great!!! I would love if you could make a video of whats in your fridge/ freezer and another one more extended of whats in your pantry and how do you use things😊 .thank you for all the inspiration and teaching ❤️.
You do a wonderful job of taking care of your family, your mom must be very proud of you!
Thank you so much Lynn! 😊
Did this in my kitchen! Thanks for the tips and ideas.
Looking good. I love using mason jars also and boy oh boy are those plastic lids a game changer, love mine
Yes!! 🙌🙌
I‘m glad I found your channel here on UA-cam
I personally am not a fan of blogs and never ever read them so I wouldn’t have found you :)
Great channel great videos! Blessings!
If I may, WELCOME! I saw your commet after I just rewatched this video. I saw this by chance on Xmas Day 2019.I loved Lisa and her little girl, the pretty house, and the" spirit of good tidings"if you will. I hope you and anyone else's first visit is the blessing it was for me.
Very helpful video I cook and bake a ton for my channel so I have all type of containers, cookware, and supplies so this has inspired me to organize even more!
You should put the things in upper cabinets in baskets for an easy acess
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I think an open shelving in a farmhouse style would of been beautiful too :D but I liked what you did here tooo.
I was really liking the blue interior of the cabinets
You did great! I was looking up mason jars and came across your channel. I am a newbie here on UA-cam and you have inspired me to keep going! Great ideas, especially writing on the jars. I like having them on my counter. I use antique ones and I totally get the idea of plastic lids! Thanks again!
Perhaps putting the supplements in a bin so you can grab them all at once to bring them down would be helpful because you can't look through them unless you grab a step stool. Also I feel like it'd be easy to overlook items on the top shelf because there are too many things know what is truly there and they covering each other. The rest looks great!
Danielle very true!
This is what I do! I use baskets on the top shelf so it’s easy to pull things down and see everything. Helps us short people too :D
Easy to remedy, just keep a sheet with the inventory :)
You have the most beautiful, precious, little girl! So blessed! 💕
TERRY STARNES thank you so much! 😊
Very Cool Organization Skills! Thanks!
Wow! I loved that you used Mason jars. I am so inspired!!
Thank you so much Laurie! 😊
Loved seeing you and your daughter painting together 💕
Great job. Your little helper was so cute.
Can't wait to have a home....
Love it. I also changed my food to mason jara due to a moth problem in my pantry. I highly recommend you a funnel for mason jars. It will make your life easier when you are filling them. It is pretty inexpensive (around $5) and it will change help you with clean up.
I love your little cupboards they are perfect! Our rental house only has one large DEEP cupboard for a pantry and it is so dark like an abyss! I much prefer shallow shelves, you can't lose anything! Love the black chalk paint on the doors too, great for recipes you use all the time!
Thank you so much! 😊
It looks BEAUTIFUL ❤❤
Looks so good. Loved how your daughter was helping.
Love it! I need to round up all the jars I have everywhere and see how many of the white lids I have. I have a teeny tiny pantry and I think I can incorporate this on those shelves.
Love mason jars. I like to see my ingredients. Also, the white lids are a HUGE plus.
Just found your channel after watching old world homes video and I have just found a new favourite channel! About to binge watch all of your videos 😂
If you run out of plastic lids the lids from mayo and mustard jars also fit. It is a major money saver to reuse those lids. My main problem is I do not have a large kitchen so I don't have a lot of cabinets or counter space. That will be my next big renovation, lower cabinets and countertops.
Looks incredible, Lisa! What a satisfying video to watch. 😊
Thank you so much Christina! 😊
I recently went to a DAV and was shocked to find mason jars for 25 to 95 cents (even better, the day I went they were half price!). I’m slowly building up my collection so I can transition away from plastic. Once I brought out my grandmother’s Corning set, I became hooked on real things.
You sure did inspire! Thank you for the plastic lid tip, I never knew they existed!
I loove them! 😊🤗
This is very pretty. My pantry being beautiful makes me want to keep it that way. So, I love these kinds of projects. I am very tempted to try out those glass, larger, mason jars.
I'm almost embarrassed that I didn't think of using mason jars this way - I don't have use for large storage, but I love the idea of putting spices in the small jars!! I am going to do that project today!
This is so inspiring. Thank you. It looks beautiful!
Looks real nice Lisa. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
This video seriously is inspiring! I love love love the white kitchen!
Love that you have mason jar for drinking lol because that’s all I use !! Love mason jars so much 😆 weird I know hehe
Yes!! 🙌
Your kitchen is just so beautiful and you’ve inspired me to make mine better organised. Love the chalkboard back of the cupboards, great idea. Yes please to a laundry room vlog. ✨
KarinaS thank you so much! 😊
I'm new to your channel! LOVE the makeover! And, who doesn't love mason jars? I'm loving your videos! And you have a great lil helper!😄 Have a great week!
we found Mason Jar hand soap (but we use it for dish soap) dispensers. They are so cool and have a pump. We gave one to a neighbor who is FINALLY cleaning his house...but that's another story. Blech. Thank you for all your ideas. We sometimes do pre made salads for lunch in ours. Have you ever tried that? They are pretty yummy and look pretty in the fridge.
the blue was really pretty though!
Love how nice the jars look!
I love your videos Lisa! I'm a new mum and trying to get my 'shit together' around the house so to speak, therefore I find your videos so helpful!👍☺
Thank you so much Sophie! 😊
I'm sure someone here must have said this already, buuut you should add the date when the jars were filled to the label. So you know when it's been there for far too long and such.
We usually go through everything pretty quick so it doesn't have time to expire :)
You soooo inspired me today! Thank you!!!
Loved this! Can’t wait to see the laundry room video!
Thank you so much! 😊
Looks very nice and what a great little helper you have😇
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! This is how my pantry is set up and I needed inspiration I love it
Excellent my friend!!!! I'm in that process of finally painting the kitchen cabinets white with the black hardware (my dream come true) after waiting 15 years. What a job! I decluttered my cabinets and threw away old expired food that was pushed in the back. I have 2 boxes full of kitchen stuff I do not use to donate. It feels GREAT but I have to be careful as I get suffer from horrific migraines. 🙋🏻🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
Feels so great to get rid of all that extra clutter, doesn't it?! 🤗🤗
Farmhouse on Boone oh yes! The cabinets are deep which is a problem..... I forgot I had half that stuff..... Feels ssssss good! 🤗🤗
Beautifully gorgeous and simple🍃🕊🍃 always thanknyou Lisa for sharing and your adorable helper💖
Thank you so much Karen! 😊
I have been doing the same! I had slowly been doing it and this gives me motivation to get it done. Just came upon your channel and I am really enjoying it. Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to the laundry room.
Thank you so much Kylie! 😊
Don't feel embarrassed, I can totally relate. Last year when I reorganized my pantry just after I moved, I went through much the same process and mess. It's nice to see someone else having the same process.
Those weck and swing top jars are so cute, but rather impractical and expensive, so yeah I ended up with alot of Mason jars too! I especially like the pint and a half jars, I am definitely gonna have to get me some of them. 😉 Thanks for sharing your process, love the white marker for labeling idea!
Yes! They are so darn pretty, but about twice the cost of mason jars and I'm always losing the little clamp thingies. Thanks so much for being encouraging! :)
You inspired me to clean my kitchen cabinets out hahahaha😂
You may find that storing your bulk flour and oats up high may turn them rancid faster (because of the heat). I've even had rice turn. ❤🌅🌵😷
Love the sharpie idea. :) Love your channel. ♥
Oh, The cabinets look so nice Tfs.
Wow what a transformation.
Thank you!
Awesome job
I'm switching over to glass also. You look great Lisa, Thanks :)
Thank you so much Sandy!
Great job! Great tips!
Looks so nice
Wow this looks so clean and crisp. Love the white lids. Makes me want to go clean mine. tfs☺️
Thank you so much!!
great looking cabinet organizing with those pretty jars! Thanks for Ideas!!