Woowee...lucky you!! Great job. You said you were going to get DH to do it and you did. I love how everything is so organized and easy to see. I makes life so much easier, and it looks great too. In my old house, I used to have a Butler's Pantry that had that kind of storage (up the kazoo) and I miss it terribly. Seeing your pantry..gives me 'pangs of envy'...lol I'm so happy for you. Oh and by the way tell DH...I see pleanty of room in there, for Much More!!
jane

I agree with jane. Lucky, lucky you, it looks wonderful, and it must have been such a great feeling to get organized and stack those shelves. - Gail

Looks like you will have lots of fun with your dishes. Congratulations!!

What a Valentine's present! Somebody loves you a whole lot. Aren't you just sooooo happy!
It will make" tablescape designing" so much easier.

And, to be honest, I WANT YOUR DISH PANTRY.

Dream, that is FABULOUS! To go from three small shelves to that much storage, WOW! Your DH must be pretty "supportive" of your tablescaping to do that for you, what a nice guy! And by doing such a terrific job building those STURDY shelves, of course you will be able to fit more dishes in there!

My DH has torn out the shelves in the closet in our DS's old room and your renovation is a good example of what I would like done in there. We are converting the room into my "office" and I feel any empty closet is fair game for dishware!

Thanks for giving me some ideas!

DD

Well color me pea green with envy! I get flowers for Valentines Day; you get the most awesome pantry remodel! What a great present. Heck . . . what a great DH!
Congrats on a wonderful new dish/tablescape storage space.
Lynn

Oh my goodness! Dream, that turned out wonderful and is so perfect for all your dish treasures. I too am pea green with envy--but also thrilled for you!

Hanging those clear pockets on the doors is a great idea. Much easier for storing the beads, half marbles, napkin rings, etc. than digging through drawers for them. I have one in my craft room, but hadn't thought about using one for tablescape/vignette items.

Give your DH a HUGE hug and tell him we are so proud of him for doing this for you! Tell him he's also given us hours of pleasure from all the pretty tablescapes you can share now that it will be easier to do them.

Luvs

Thanks everyone! I'm still so excited about it and since my children thought I was crazy for wanting all this storage for dishes, I couldn't wait to share it with ya'll! I knew ya'll would understand! I think he did a fabulous job and I didn't have to bug him for 10 years to get it done! LOL!!!

Luvs, I love the hanging organizers. I was amazed at the amount of stuff I could put in them. I still have some empty pockets, but those will be filled up with silk flowers. I'm so "gardening challenged" - I'm rotten with live flowers, so it's silk flowers for most of my tablescapes. This will be perfect for storing and organizing them. It'll probably be next weekend before I get them done though.

He's definately a keeper, that DH of your's!!
Be sure to give him a big kiss and tell him how we all will be asking our DHs for a pantry just like it. That should make him feel good. Thanks for the pic. Our DHs now have a guide!!
And of course there is still plenty of room in that pantry. You just have to use creative stacking. Mother's Day will be here before you know it and he can recreate another closet for you!!!
Betty

I had to come back by this post to drool over your neat dish pantry and all your pretty dishes one more time. Gosh, you sure have lots of nice pedestal plates, and so many sets of stemware too. It just all looks so beautiful the way you have it arranged. If I were you, I'd be leaving the doors open allot for the next few days just so I could admire it! ;o)

Luvs

That is absolutely gorgeous - color me "green" with envy (today, especially)! :-) Congratulations!

Jamie

What a beautiful room! I wish I have a husband that could make me such a wonderful storage (I'm single, lol)! Congrats for your new room!

At first sight, I thought it was a new store... you really did a great job especially with those shoe organizers! Will for sure pick your idea as I NEED more storage for my own decorations!

BTW, yes, there's some space left for you to buy new things... why left those shoe organizers empty???

Edit: Why would you leave those shoe organizers empty???

Wow!! And another wow!! The shelves are absolutely amazing - I am an organization freak. Look at all that space!!! And then you have all those lovely dishes - total eye candy. Dont you love those shoe organizers. I have them everywhere! I have to show this pic to my DH!

Thanks
Mo

Wow!! It's all been said but what a wonderful gift!!! Do you want to rent him out for a little while?? YOu could use the money to buy more pretties!! LOL!

Prosperity, the empty spaces are going to be used for my silk flowers. I have a black thumb when it comes to gardening, so I pretty much use silk flowers in all my tablesettings. The flowers are still packed up...that's my project for this coming weekend. I'm planning to get them all out and put in the organizer.

Bright, I got a chuckle out of renting out my husband! That's a great idea though...I could sure use some more money cause I've got my eye on a couple of sets of new china. LOL!

Seriously, ya'll just don't know how shocked I am that he actually did this for me without me having to bug him for literally years. He does remodeling, roofing, siding, new construction for a living and he just doesn't want to do anything like that when he's at home. It's always such a huge nag, nag, nag to get anything done around here. So this was a wonderful gift for me!

WOW! I love it. Your dishes are beautiful. I have a cabinet that was my FILs, but nothing like that.

OMG am I envious! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your new dish-pantry!

Boy, this is a pantry I'd like to raid. Good job!

Hi Twizzis, welcome to the forum. So glad you are enjoying the posts and joining in with us. Hope you will post again and tell us a bit about yourself and maybe share some pics of any pretty dishes or holiday ideas you might have. Luvs

Thank you, luvs. I don't have photos on hand, but I will most certainly make an effort to do so. I appreciate being so welcomed. Twizz

I missed this post.

It is wonderful! How nice to be able to see everything in one place!
I am vewy, vewy jealous!! :)