ORC Pantry Makeover- Week 5: The Great Cabinet Color Debate!
One Room Challenge, Our Fixer Upper Emily Schmidt One Room Challenge, Our Fixer Upper Emily Schmidt

ORC Pantry Makeover- Week 5: The Great Cabinet Color Debate!

It’s Week 5 and time to finally settle on a cabinet color! I have been going back and forth with this decision from the beginning but cabinets are going in next week and must be painted so I have to make the final call! My original inspo for this space had both dark and moody paint colors as well as these bright and fun, green and yellow colors. I ultimately settled on the brighter color scheme since I have so much vintage and retro dishware to display and I feel like it will flow better with my collections overall. Also it just makes me so happy to look at and I think that’s important!

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ORC Pantry Makeover- Week 3: My Perfect Facebook Marketplace Find + Cabinet Layout
Our Fixer Upper, One Room Challenge Emily Schmidt Our Fixer Upper, One Room Challenge Emily Schmidt

ORC Pantry Makeover- Week 3: My Perfect Facebook Marketplace Find + Cabinet Layout

This week I finalized and ordered all the cabinets for the back wall of the pantry which will house the bulk of the storage for the space. I was able to get ALL the cabinets (uppers and lowers) for over 12 ft of space for under $1,700! This was a big win for me if you know how expensive cabinets can be and I was still able to get exactly what I wanted. This was mostly made possible by another lucky Facebook marketplace find of these amazing antique glass front cabinets! I was able to get 4 for $175 each and they just happen to be the exact size I need to go all the way to the ceiling on the top half of the wall. They have the most beautiful paned glass fronts and even little drawers at the bottom of each! I couldn’t believe they fit the exact size I needed not only height-wise, but also are a standard width so I could get lower cabinets to match. These will all be stripped and refinished/repainted and new hardware added.

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