Staging the Butler's Pantry

Still no progress on the roof... but in the meantime...

We had to decide how we were going to use the Butler's Pantry cabinets that we had purchased three years ago.  Here's a photo of a section of it from when we purchased it...

It was designed to be a "U" shape, but our original thought was to straighten them out to a straight line of cabinets along the wall (in the back of the photo below).  

Now that the walls are framed out, we could measure and come up with a plan...

They are a touch too tall to flip them over & stand up in the garage, so we had to take them out onto the driveway.  As you can see, we put them into the intended U shape to measure.

The doors & shelves were taken off to protect them when we moved them, so they're safely tucked away in the upstairs of the garage.  (Matching them back up will be a challenge, although we did label them, so that should help!)

They are 66 inches across, and when we measured that's going to be pretty much the exact width of our space, once the sheetrock is in!  Our space is going to be a little bit deeper, so we'll have to have to come up with a way to finish off the ends of the cabinets, since they'll be exposed.

We are so glad that we bought it and held onto it for the last three years!  When ordering our new kitchen cabinets (yes, that's done, & I will share the plans soon!) we figured out that it saved us thousands by getting this rather than ordering something new to fit the space!

I can't wait to load this up with stuff- I think it's one of the things that I'm most excited about!

Here's a view of the back of the cabinets, just for the record!