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Our home came with a little pantry, which amounted to a few cabinets set in a corner of the kitchen, as you can see below.

But see that space to the right of the cabinets? It bugged the heck out of me. “Why,” I thought, “couldn’t the builder have used cabinets that FIT?”

After all, they would only have needed to be about a foot wider, and we’d have had extra storage space. There also wouldn’t have been a random square foot of completely useless space in the kitchen.

Eventually I decided to go down to see about getting cabinets that fit, and I quickly found out why the builder hadn’t done so. They would’ve had to have been a custom size. Custom size = horrifically expensive.

On to Plan B, I thought. Maybe I could just get an end piece with open shelving to take up the remaining space. Yes, that was an option. But at about $679 if I installed it myself. Yeah, that wasn’t happening. (One from IKEA would have been cheaper, but didn’t quite come in the right size.)

So finally I decided enough was enough. I would just attach shelves to the wall instead. But once again, I ran into the problem of finding ones that both looked the way I wanted and fit the way I wanted.

In the end, I bought a saw, some wood, and some brackets, and my husband and I cut them out and put them together. We had also painted the existing cabinets previously, so I used leftover paint from that to match the shelves.

The result was significantly less expensive, and I’m very happy with the new shelves for my cookbooks and food-related books.

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