One of my favorite parts of homesteading is canning. I love to see my garden in jars during the winter months. Preserving the bounty of summer is great fun, but conveniently storing the jars is another chore. Our stairs downstairs turns halfway back on itself creating a nice cool space under the steps. It was used mainly as storage for Christmas stuff before I started to set all my canned goods in there. I was getting loads of jars from the garden during the hot summer months. This presented an issue, since floor space was being taken up by all the jars I had. I would tip-toe around stuff and occasionally break a light bulb that hung down from the low ceiling with my head. However, I did not complain, but Mr. Hunky certainly saw this as an eye sore. The storage area under the steps has a door so I would just keep it shut, didn't bother me any. A couple weekends ago Mr. Hunky said he was going to make it into a pine board canning closet. Pine, keeping it dry and still cool, I thought that would be fantastic. I never thought it would turn out the way it did though. Usually when Mr. Hunky is going to 'improve' my life in some way, I generally let him go with it. The new closet with shelves and new lighting is economical and space saving. Canning is going to be even more worth it with a convenient, cool, dry place to store my goods for winter. Hopefully, with the added space I can produce enough vegetables for two years worth of canned goods instead of one.
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1/28/2015 01:31:30 am
I love this! I have the same space & though a little variety as far as what is stored:) looks pretty much like your 'before' picture. On the upper shelves, is it just the 2x2 that is supporting the shelf or are there more brackets that are not visible? I feel a weekend project coming on....
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Meg
1/29/2015 07:23:37 am
Hi! There are no brackets - well no metal brackets- under the shelves are 2X2 lips that the boards are screwed to plus the vertical 2 x 2's- I can pretty much sit on the shelves - they are very sturdy.
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