April 5, 2011

Condo + Food Stoarge = Creativity

As I look through all these awesome, creative bogs I am so surprised at the lack of apartment dweller bloggers. In fact, I think only one of the more popular blogs I follow is done from an apartment. I know apartments are not for everyone and if you're a house person, and I am, they can kind of suck.

We moved to Utah from Colorado when we sold our home as the housing market was just beginning its decline. It was not a good time to buy a home and we figured we would rent somewhere temporarily until things started to pick and and then we'd buy.

Well, we are still in that "temporary" two bedroom condo and I would like to introduce you to my secret food storage stash. We have food storage bursting at the seems in this place.

It is under our bed, under the twin bed in the office/"guest room for only one person", in the closets, above the kitchen shelves, in the outside closet and on top of the weird nook in the the living room. I spent countless hours organizing our stash and almost cannot believe I am going to show you how we are actually bursting at the seems beneath this organized exterior.



 This is our closet in the guest room/ office. Obviously anyone staying in our house will not be able to hang up any clothes. I've just put some hooks on the back of the door to supplement. More importantly though, we have all our short term food storage in this closet, as well as animal supplies, out of season clothes, and to the right of this armoire repeat food storage is stacked. Stuff that we have like 50 boxes of like wheat.



Under the guest bed we've put long term storage items that we actually use and try to rotate through. This can be a little inconvenient to get to, but I can actually lift up the bed myself to get it out



Under the mater bed we've put the things we've bought to supplement the items from the cannery. Items the cannery doesn't sell and that we only have a few of. The bed is too low to stand them up, but this has worked pretty well so far. We've also opened a few boxes from the cannery and rolled them under here to make them more accessible. Like sugar, flour, and apple slices.

In the master closet we've utilized the corners and built up stacks or our repeated food storage items. This is actually completely out of our way so it works well for us- but the closet does NOT look like it came out of a magazine.










On top of the kitchen cabinets we've put some Ikea storage boxes. Inside we actually have random items like our emergency candles, propane, and the wheat grinder.





I doubt anyone would look twice when they see them but for us they provide extra storage to hide our emergency essentials.

I hope that showing all our little secrets can help others living in apartments. We can still be prepared and provide for ourselves, it's just a matter of prioritizing and creativity!

Thanks for coming by!

- Becca -