If you want to improve your pantry, you should consider using wire pantry shelving. You may be wondering what wire pantry shelving could possibly have on shelving made of wood. However, you may be surprised at the benefits it comes with. Here are a few reasons why wire shelving is the better option.

Wire Pantry Shelving Stays Clean

Have you ever noticed how gross pantry shelving can get over time? Little bits of flour and sugar escape their bags after being rolled down. Oil that runs down the side of the bottle leaves a dark ring on the wood. Crumbs from who-knows-where collect between ingredients. 

With wire shelving, none of these things is an issue. Loose crumbs and such will simply fall to the floor, making it easy to sweep and mop up each time you clean the kitchen floors. Therefore, there’s no need to make a special task of cleaning out the pantry.

Wire Is Pest Resistant

Wire isn’t just great at keeping crumbs off your shelves, it’s also great at keeping pests off of them. As you might imagine, it’s much easier for bugs and mice to walk around on a flat surface. Wire shelving makes it much harder for them to get to your food. Therefore, they’re less likely to stick around due to the inhospitable environment.

Better Airflow

Airflow is important in shelving for a number of reasons. For one thing, better airflow means moisture and dust don’t have a place to settle. Keeping moisture and dust away from your food is always a good thing. Keep your shelved goods tasting better for longer.

Shallow Shelving for Walk-In Pantries

Another reason to consider wire pantry shelving is if you have a walk-in pantry. Walk-in pantries require shallower shelving to allow for walking space. Instead of creating a deep shelf on one wall, using shallow shelving on all of the walls means easier access to pantry goods without having to dig through the shelf contents.

Wire shelving is great for walk-in pantries. It allows light-flow, is easy to see through, and fits perfectly into the limited space. Wire shelving from Keystone Home Products can be bought in varying dimensions to fit any pantry size. 

Quality Wire Pantry Shelving in Toronto

If you’re looking for high quality, wire shelving in Toronto, Keystone Home Products is the place to go. We offer wire shelving, among many other much-needed home goods. Stop by our store to see our products in person, or just give us a call to ask about them. We look forward to helping you outfit your pantry with the best quality wire shelving available.

Everyone loves going out for a drink now and then – or maybe every other night. Because drinks are in such high demand, bars can be a dime a dozen. There’s one or two on every city street, so it’s important to stand out. If you want your bar to stand out from the rest and pull in some very comfortable regulars, we have a tip for you. Spice up your bar with some glass shelving and mirrors.

Why a Bar Needs Glass Shelving

Glass shelving does a lot for a bar space. First, if you don’t have enough shelving as it is, this addition will make storing liquor bottles much easier. They’ll all be accessible and close-by for bartenders to grab as they need. 

In addition to accessibility improvements, shelving that’s specifically made of glass has an added bonus. It allows a lot of light flow, making the space behind the bar feel bigger. Plus, the glass matches all of your fancy liquor bottles, making the whole area feel cohesive.

One more feature of glass shelving that we can’t ignore: it’s easy to clean. Spilling liquor on a wooden shelf is likely to damage it or strip it of its stain or sealant. Glass is easy to wipe down. Any sticky residue left from dried up alcohol can be wiped down with a cloth or with cleaners without worrying about it damaging the shelving.

Why a Bar Needs Mirrors

Glass shelving may seem like a more obvious addition, but what about mirrors? Mirrors placed behind the glass shelving in a bar add a lot of improvements.

• They reflect light, keeping the bar space lit up and visible
• Liquor bottles are reflected back on themselves, making the stash, visually, double in size
• Mirrors also reflect the entire room back on itself, making it feel more spacious
• Mirrors are also easy to clean, just like the glass shelving. 

The Atmosphere Improvement

Convenience isn’t the only thing that matters when outfitting a bar with new shelving or backsplash. A lot of why people have a favorite bar is because of atmosphere. The ambience can be everything. If you’re going out for a night with friends, you don’t want to go somewhere where you feel depressed. Say goodbye to dingy, dark shelving and behind-the-bar storage. Make your bar lighter-weight, flashier, and more contemporary in appearance.

Buy Quality Glass Shelving and Mirrors in Toronto

If you’re interested in upgrading to high quality glass bar shelving and mirror backsplash, Keystone Home Products is the place to go. We offer high quality glass shelving with metal mounting brackets. We also offer beautiful mirrors for use as backsplash, vanities, and more.

If you need your glass or mirrors in custom sizes, just give us a call and let us know. We specialize in glass and mirrors, so we can help you no matter what sizes you’re after. We look forward to hearing from you.

Having a closet organizer is a real game changer for your storage needs. Already have one? Maybe it’s time to ask yourself if it’s doing everything you need it to. Not all closet organizers are made the same. Here are some reasons you might want to replace an old closet organizer with one from Keystone Home Products.

Better Appearance

One of the things we pride ourselves on is the high quality appearance of our wooden closet organizers. If you need to replace an old closet organizer in Toronto, we can say, without a doubt, that ours are the right choice.

Our wooden closet organizers come in multiple color options: wood grain, black, white, and more. No matter what color or style you’re looking for to match your closet interior, we can provide. The high quality of our wooden closet organizers also impacts their appearance. You can tell by looking at them that they’re made with taste in mind.

High Quality Craftsmanship

At Keystone Home Products, we look to sell high quality home products for everyday needs. The products we offer are those things that sit somewhere between possession and interior fixture. So, to maintain that in-between state where our products do their jobs without getting in anyone’s way, they must be quality. After all, no one wants to think about their mirror as an object; they simply want to use it as a feature. The same goes for our closet organizers.

When you replace an old closet organizer with one from Keystone Home Products in Toronto, you invest in continuity. Your new closet organizer will hold fast and look good doing it. From the day it’s installed in your closet onward, its convenience will simply become a way of life.

Custom Segment Selection

Perhaps the most compelling part of replacing your old closet organizer with one from Keystone is the customization. You can buy closet organizers from all over, but can you customize them too? Keystone’s closet organizers are made of of many different parts. Closet organization isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Therefore, we can work together to find the perfect combination and layout of parts to suit your closet.

With your closet dimension in mind, we can make a plan and determine the right parts for your space. Whether you need fewer hanger bars, more drawers, or an abundance of shelves, we’ll make it happen. There’s no right amount of each organizer section. Therefore, it’s just a matter of considering what you have. 

Convenient Organizer Suggestions

• Do you have an abundance of formalwear? If so, a separate hanger bar will allow you to maintain the tidiness of your formal clothing.
• If you love to collect watches, a watch drawer is the perfect choice for you. Fit one of our high quality drawers with a watch insert. This will allow you to store your watches in a way that protects the band integrity. Plus, it makes them easier to look through when deciding which one to wear.
• Do you keep formal and off-season shoes clean and stored away? A segment of shelving would be the perfect place to store them safely and where you can easily access them.

No matter what your needs are, you can count on Keystone to meet them. Come and take a look at our organizers in person at our Toronto showroom. Or, call us if you have questions you’d like to ask over the phone.

Wire shelving is an oft-overlooked fixture in any functional home. It doesn’t usually have the sleek appearance many modern homeowners are looking for. Most would prefer glass shelving, or even cheap, black-coated particleboard. However, we’re hoping to change your mind. Because, wire shelving has some creative benefits that you may have never considered. Here are just a few of them.

Water and Dirt Resistant

Wooden bookshelves may look great when you first put them together, but they don’t always stay that way. If you set a cold glass of water on your wooden shelf, it takes only a couple hours of forgetfulness to leave you with a big, ugly warp spot.

It’s easy enough to avoid putting down cold glasses on your wooden shelves. However, some of our favorite things require shelf space and water – our plants! If you value a little green in your home, the best place to store your indoor plants is on a wire shelf. The coated metal is completely water resistant. However, it’s also dirt resistant! 

Keeping potted plants looking their best can be a messy task. Fortunately, wire shelving will allow loose dirt to fall directly through to the floor below. From there, it’s easily swept or wiped up, along with whatever water droplets your watering can or spray bottle drips on its way to and from each plant.

Perfect for Lights and Vines

Another of the creative benefits to using wire shelving is the ability to wrap things around the wires. For lovers of string lights, that can mean lining your shelves with a magical little light source.

On the other hand, if you’re one of our plant lovers, you may find your wire shelving is better used catering to creeping vines. Creeping vines make some very beautiful houseplants, especially if they have something to creep along. Vines will naturally wind around whatever is nearby. If they’re growing from the bottom level of a wire shelf, they’ll find their way up the side and all over the open spaces in those wire shelves. With a little direction, you can have them wrap neatly along the fronts of the shelves.

Great Airflow

The creative benefits of wire shelving don’t start and end with plants. Another of their great perks is their great airflow. The high airflow of wire shelving is great for a number of crafts. Crafts that need to dry will do so faster when placed somewhere with higher airflow. 

Wet pottery can be supported with a piece of cardboard on the wire shelves. Once hardened, the support can be removed to allow airflow directly to the bottom. Likewise, glaze will dry much faster with increased airflow.

Pottery isn’t the only craft that requires dry-time. Wire shelving is also great for storing wet paintings, painted figurines, stained wood, dyed shirts, and more.

Curtain Friendly

Enjoy the practical uses of wire shelving but don’t care for the appearance? Fortunately, they have a built-in solution to that as well: curtains. Wire shelving has the added creative benefit of supporting the use of curtains. So, buy yourself something ready-made, or pull out the sewing machine and some cute, patterned fabric, and make yourself some curtains. Wire shelving provides plenty of places to hook some curtain rings. Ready for some sturdy shelving in your own home? You can get it today at Keystone Home Products.

If you have a walk-in closet, you’re one step away from a luxurious dressing experience. What are you missing? A wooden closet organizer! A walk-in closet with nothing but some hanger bars is adequate, but a walk-in closet with an organizer is indulgent. Nothing feels more luxurious than having places for everything that are easy to access. Here’s what you’re missing.

Keep Your Clothing Accessible

Something most closets are missing is easy clothing accessibility. Even with boxes, bins, and bags, clothing and accessories aren’t as accessible as they could be. After all, how inclined are you really to unstack all of those boxes of seasonal clothes to find what you need in the off-season? Probably not very inclined. Unless you shift out your entire wardrobe each season, you probably just stick to one set of versatile clothes like the rest of us.

However, if your clothing becomes accessible year round, there’s no reason you can’t be your most comfortable, no matter the season. A wooden closet organizer is perfect for making clothing accessibility a reality. Say goodbye to boxes packed with your beloved sweaters and scarves. Say hello to ample hanger bar space and drawers for accessories.

Make Organization Look Great

Organization is possible with things like cardboard boxes or plastic bins. But, does it look good? No. Organization should look amazing. After all, it’s everything in its place, right? When you outfit your walk-in closet with an organizer, you make organization look great. Every piece of clothing having its own place looks amazing when its place is on one cohesive piece of furniture. An organizer from Keystone Home Products is exactly that. Whether you choose black or woodgrain finish, your organizer will tie everything together nicely. 

Save on Floor Space

One of the the benefits to using a closet organizer for your clothing and accessories is that you save on floor space. While you may be able to pack off-season clothing into boxes, chances are, you’re stacking it in a corner or against the wall cross from your hanging clothing. When you install a walk-in closet organizer from Keystone Home Products, you save on floor space that would otherwise be taken up by suboptimal storage systems.

A walk-in closet organizer ensures everything has its place in one vertical space. That can free up your other wall – if your closet space is narrow – or make room for seating or other useful decor.

Customize Your Walk-In Closet Organizer

What’s the best part of buying a wooden, walk-in closet organizer from Keystone? You can customize it! Every organizer is made up of different parts: hanger bars, shelving, drawers, and so on. Everyone has different clothes storage needs. So, choose the elements that are right for you. Build yourself the ideal closet organizer for your closet. Get started by heading down to our store in Toronto or by giving us a call.

Want your walk-in closet to feel like the Narnia of getting dressed in the morning? There’s more to a walk-in closet than just hanging up your t-shirts. A walk-in closet mirror wall will add a whole new dimension to your morning routine. Check out these great benefits.

Make Your Closet Feel Bigger

Putting a mirror wall into any room creates a size benefit. Mirrors make a space feel bigger. This is especially useful in a small space such as a walk-in closet. A walk-in closet mirror wall makes your closet feel bigger by reflecting the space back on itself. That tricks your visual brain into thinking the space is twice as big as it really is.

Not to mention, mirrors also reflect light. That means your space is also brighter than before. A walk-in closet mirror wall spreads light throughout the entire closet with ease. Finding the clothes you need is easier. So is seeing every pro and con of the outfit you just put together. 

Make Coordinating Your Outfits Easier

Of course, what do mirrors do best but show us our reflections? If you enjoy putting together show-stopping outfits for work or social events, a walk-in closet mirror wall is the perfect solution. A standing mirror is one thing, but a wide mirror that runs the length of the closet is another.

When you can get a good look at your outfit from head to toe, it’s easy to see if something isn’t right, or if something’s missing. Make coordinating the different parts of your outfit easy with ample mirror space.

Catch Every Detail

An additional benefit to having a large mirror is caching details in your outfit that you might otherwise miss. The smaller the mirror, the harder it is to see the big picture of how you look. A full closet mirror wall, however? You’ll spot right away if you left a tag on your shirt or if your pants are tucked awkwardly into your shoe. Leave the house feeling confident of the way you look. After all, you’ve seen it from every angle!

Infinity Mirrors

Do you enjoy the infinity effect of dual mirrors that you can achieve in a clothing store changing room? Achieve the same thing in your own closet by installing mirror walls across from each other. At the end of a long closet is the perfect location for this effect. Simply install mirror panels that face each other and you can see your entire outfit, front and back. Seeing yourself from head to toe isn’t the only way to dress yourself. Even better is checking yourself front and back.

Affordable Wall Mirrors

Keystone Home Products has affordable wall mirrors available to anyone in the GTA. Just stop by our store to see what’s available in person. We provide all of the essential home organization products you’re after. Whether you need custom mirror dimensions or installation help, just let us know and we’ll do what we can to get you whatever you need.

Keeping a linen closet from becoming completely overrun is a great way to reduce stress in your everyday life. You might be surprised by the kind of impact your hall linen closet can have on your mood. However, most of us use our linen closet every day – often multiple times – to get towels, cloths, and more. If you have to fight with your closet every time you get into it, it’s going to cause stress. Fortunately, Keystone Home Products has the organization know-how and the products you need to keep your closet in check. Without further ado, here are our tips for organizing a hall linen closet.

Remove Unnecessary Contents

If you’re like most people, you probably have a backstock of towels and such that you never really use. If you find yourself struggling to fit your freshly folded towels into your hall linen closet, it might be because you need to remove some things.

Consider saying goodbye to the old towels that no one in the house ever uses. Move rags you need for other crafts or messy projects to a different part of the house. If you’ve got a tool setup in your garage, this might be a good place for storing rags. Cleaning rags can be kept under your kitchen sink or wherever you store cleaning products. Save your linen closet space for towels and cloths you use in the bathroom.

Keep Things Folded and Adjust Folding Method

Once you’ve removed things taking up unnecessary space, it’s time to consider your folding method. Many people grow up folding their towels a certain way and continue using that method once they move into their own home. However, every home has different closet sizes. Your folding method might leave you with towels that are too wide to sit side by side comfortably. Experiment with folding methods to create folded towels that coexist more peacefully.

Increase Airflow for Fresher Laundry

If your towels and sheets come out of the closet smelling dusty or stale, it might be because of the shelving you have installed. If your home is on the older side, wooden shelving in closets can obtain a musty or dusty smell that they then pass on to your laundry.

To increase airflow and prevent your closet shelves from making your towels and other linens smell dusty, opt for wire shelving. Getting wire shelving for a closet will keep things from smelling like old wood, prevent things from growing dusty, and discourage pests from being able to make a home there.

Implement Drawers for Non-Linen Contents

If you keep things in your linen closet that aren’t linen, you can also benefit from adding drawers to the closet. Many people use their hall linen closet to store spare toiletries, like soap and shampoo. Keep these things in order by putting some organizer drawers onto one of the shelves. This will keep your closet looking more orderly and prevent you from knocking things over when removing or replacing towels or sheets.

If you’re looking for a great accent to your master bedroom, wall mirrors are a great idea. They come with a number of benefits past just offering you something to plan an outfit in. Let’s check out some of the ways they can improve your room and everyday life.

View Full Outfits

Of course, the first benefit of any big mirror is the ability to view your entire outfit at once. A bathroom vanity is limited to showing you how you look from the waist up. Sure, you can stand on a chair or back all the way out of the bathroom door in the hopes of seeing the rest. However, getting mirror walls for your bedroom will make this unnecessary.

Floor to ceiling mirrors allow you to comfortably try on clothes and view your entire outfit at once. This is great for professionals who need to look their best when they go into work each day. Even if you wear the same type of clothes each workday, a mirror does more than help you color coordinate. Being able to see yourself prevents embarrassing outfit mishaps like part of your shirt being untucked in the back. Get the full picture with master bedroom wall mirrors.

Create a Lighter Room

Seeing how you look is only the most basic benefit to having master bedroom wall mirrors. In addition to that, master bedroom wall mirrors will also make the room lighter. Mirrors reflect light – both from outside and from lamps. The reflected light bounces around the room, illuminating areas that would otherwise be dim or entirely dark. Creating a lighter room with your floor to ceiling mirrors will make finding things easier and can even reduce depression. 

Make Your Room Feel Bigger

Finally, master bedroom wall mirrors will make your room feel bigger. Having an entire wall reflecting the room back on itself will make it feel twice as big. Even if you don’t actually have that extra space, tricking your brain into feeling like it’s there can make the actual size of your room feel much less cramped. Even small rooms with floor to ceiling mirrors can feel big and spacious.

Mirror Closet Doors

If your wall of choice for wall mirrors has a closet in it, fear not. You may not be able to install regular wall mirrors where your closet is, but you can install mirror closet doors. With regular wall mirrors and mirror closet doors working together, you can cover your entire wall with mirrors in one form or another.

Buy Master Bedroom Wall Mirrors

If you live in Toronto, Keystone Home Products is here to help you on your journey to a more spacious, lighter bedroom. We specialize in home products, including mirrors of all sizes. Give us a call if you have questions about our mirrors. Or, come down to our store in person and see what we have to offer. You’re sure to find exactly what you need and can completely transform your master bedroom with one simple addition

It’s easy for a closet to get messy and unmanageable. However, you can prevent a messy closet with a little help from Keystone Home Products. We excel in home organization and want to help you get your closet in order by avoiding these storage mistakes that almost everyone falls victim to.

Using Your Closet as General Storage

This is a relatively simple mistake to make. Growing up, as kids and teens, most of us only had our room and closet to keep our things. We got used to putting everything in this space. However, carrying that practice into adulthood when you have more space at your disposal can cause problems.

As adults, we usually have more clothing. After all, now we have work clothes and formal clothes, workout clothes, etc. We can’t afford to waste space in our closets for boxes of old notebooks. But, there’s also no reason to throw out old things that are important to you. Instead, you need to find a place for these items that reflects the infrequency of their use.

Buying some shallow, under-bed storage drawers is a fantastic use of space. These allow you access, but can be a bother to get into for items you use regularly. Use the space for non-clothing items you want to keep but rarely use.

Using Closed Boxes

People underestimate the power of a lid or some tape on their willingness to access something. Almost everyone, at some point, has stored something in a box, closed it up, and put it on a shelf only to find it 6 years later, not even realizing they still had it anymore. One of the biggest storage mistakes is putting things in closed, unlabeled boxes.

Instead of packing things away, closed off and hard to access, store things in open-top boxes with labels. Invest in some nice, square storage baskets/drawers that can slide onto a top closet shelf with ease. If you aren’t interested in paying for more storage, you can also just cut the flaps off some cardboard boxes so that they’re open on top. 

If you want them to look a bit nicer, consider covering them with a nice design using wrapping paper or some old fabric. And, don’t forget to label them. Use a small slip of paper, list the items in the box, and use some clear tape to stick the list to the front of the box. Now, every time you go into the closet, you’ll glance at your storage boxes and their content lists and store that information away in your brain for later.

Leaving Things on the Closet Floor

This is an easy mistake to make. From dirty clothes to discarded shoes, people leave things on their closet floor all the time. This is a huge storage mistake. These things will begin to pile up, blocking the closet door and making accessing the closet harder. With each added layer of difficulty to get into the closet, you’re more likely to make the problem worse by putting things somewhere they don’t belong. Get yourself a hamper for laundry and make sure you take the extra ten seconds to put things back where they go. You’ll thank me later.

Having No Storage Shelving

Finally, one of the biggest storage mistakes is having no storage shelving. If your closet has nothing but a hanger bar, of course it’s going to end up messy. Getting some shelving or a closet organizer will change your life and make storage so much easier. Keeping things clean is way easier when everything has a place.

Do you like to give your home interior a bit of personal flair? You’re not the only one! Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to customize your home so that every corner of it feels like you. Keystone Home Products wants to address one really great DIY technique that’s easy to do and extremely underutilized: glass etching. We’ll briefly cover how you can use glass etching to customize your glass shower enclosure.

What Is Glass Etching?

It may sound dangerous or difficult, but glass etching is actually very easy. What is it? Well, have you ever seen a piece of glass – a wine glass, a candle holder, an old glass lamp shade, etc. – with an opaque design on it? This design is usually white, but it’s not something applied to the surface, like paint. This is glass etching. The glass is transformed to be opaque in only select areas, allowing you to paint or stencil on any design you want.

How Is It Done?

Glass etching may sound like something you have to do with special tools or a laser, but it’s not. It’s much simpler than that. The opaque design added to any piece of glass is done by applying acid to it. The acid eats through the surface of the glass, creating such consistent damage to it that it simply loses its transparency.

Applying acid to something sounds dangerous, right? Well, not much more than most other DIY projects, or putting in a load of laundry with some bleach. The acid used for glass etching is sold in hardware or crafting stores. It comes in the form of a cream or paste. 

If you intend to do some glass etching, you’ll want to look up a detailed guide. However, the general process involves creating a template with a sheet of vinyl, temporarily adhering it to the surface of the glass, applying your glass etching solution to the exposed part of the glass, giving it some time to work its magic, then cleaning it all off. Left behind is a beautiful, opaque design on your glass.

Using Glass Etching to Customize Your Shower Enclosure

Glass etching is most commonly used to customize small pieces of kitchenware, such as champagne glasses. This is often done for printing dates or names on things to create memory pieces for things like wedding dates. However, glass etching is a versatile craft and can be used for many more things than people frequently use it for. For example, you could use it to add a custom design to your shower enclosure.

Some great ideas are to:

• Add a band of growing grass and blooming flowers to the bottom of the enclosure
• Outline the edges of the entire enclosure with blooming vines and leaves
• Create a simple, geometric pattern to give a lightweight framing effect to the enclosure
• Add some words that inspire you – a favorite poem, quote, or mantra

Revitalize or Start with Fresh Glass

When you customize your glass shower enclosure with glass etching, you have two ways to go about it. If you have an old shower enclosure, you can use glass etching to bring it back to life. Applying glass etching specifically to areas with topical impurities or damage might even erase the imperfections entirely. However, if you’d like a blank canvas to work from, you can also get a new, glass shower enclosure from Keystone Home Products in Toronto.