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.

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.

We recently wrote a bit about the best uses for wire shelving at home. However, we know that a lot of the things considered home goods are also used in professional spaces. That’s why Keystone Home Products is here again to cover the best professional uses for wire shelving as well. Don’t worry, we didn’t forget those of you trying to improve your shop or work environment!

1. Folded Apparel Shelving

If you run a clothing shop, one of the best ways you can improve the shop is by storing folded apparel on wire shelving. Everyone has to go into a clothing shop now and again. If that shop includes folded apparel, getting it from a wooden shelf that hasn’t been cleaned in ages is really unsavory. More surface area means more germs, more dust, more dirt, and less appeal.

However, when you store folded apparel on wire shelving, you allow that clothing to breathe and remain fresh longer. The clothing is less likely to take on the smell of the shop. It’s also less likely to get dusty. The last thing you want is to trigger a customer’s allergies when they pull a dusty shirt on in the changing room.

2. Office Supply Shelving

If you work in an office, you know there’s no shortage of storage needs. Offices come with a lot of supplies. From paper to pens, ink cartridges and sticky notes, there’s a lot that needs somewhere to go. Putting up some wire shelving in a copy room or along a back wall gives you somewhere to store these things where they’re easily accessible. Employees can easily find what they need and knowing when something is running low is as easy as a glance.

3. Supply Closet Shelving

No matter what kind of business you work for or run, you almost certainly have a supply closet. If your supply closet is in need of a boost, if you’re moving your business to a new space, or if you’re renovating an old coat closet, you need wire shelving. One of the best professional uses for wire shelving is mounting it across an empty closet space. Then, your empty old coat closet can be used for storing all kinds of things. 

Dental and medical offices can use supply closet wire shelving for storing backstock of packaged supplies. Or, if you’re in a medical environment where patients stay for surgery or overnight observation, you can also use it for storing blankets, pillows, and gowns in more sanitary conditions.

4. Cubicle Shelving

Finally, the last of our favorite professional uses for wire shelving: cubicle shelving. Cubicles have a marked lack of storage space in them aside from the surface of your desk. If you need somewhere to store notebooks, binders, stationery, or boxes of small supplies, wire shelving is here for you. Wire shelving is lightweight, making it great for mounting on a cubicle wall. If your cubicle wall isn’t made for screws, you can also buy or create a wire rig that hooks over the top edge of the cubicle. This is especially stable and lacks the risk of screws coming loose.

Take your cubicle to the next level and reduce crowding your desk space with wire shelving from Keystone Home Products.

There are a lot of uses for wire shelving at home, but some of these uses are more practical than others. Keystone Home Products offers wire shelving to all of our lovely customers in Toronto and the GTA. We want you to make the most of them. Therefore, we’ve put together a short list of the best ways you can utilize these shelves at home. Let’s start with-

1. Kitchen Overflow Shelving

One of the top uses for wire shelving at home is in the kitchen as overflow shelving. Are you struggling to fit everything into your cupboards? Wire shelving is the solution.

You can use these shelves to store snacks, cereals, boxed goods, and more. The best part about the shelves being made of wire is that they’re pest resistant. Pests have a harder time traversing wire than solid surfaces and are less likely to get into your things or try making a home in them.

For that reason, and due to the shortage of space, wire shelving is especially useful in apartment kitchens. Without a full pantry, apartment kitchens often leave you with cramped cupboards. Storing some of your things on wire overflow shelving is a great way to give yourself more wiggle room when unloading groceries.

2. Garage Shoe Shelving

There are as many ways to store shoes as there are people to wear them. Everyone does it differently. However, one of the best uses for wire shelving at home is for just this. 

Setting up some wire shelves in the garage, beside the door to the house, is the perfect way to store shoes. The shelves offer a clear view of their contents because they’re not solid, like wood. Plus, because of those gaps between the wire bars, any dirt on your shoes will simply fall through instead of gathering on the shelf. That means a neater appearance in the long-run.

3. Supplementary Closet Shelving

Closets are made for storing things, but isn’t it curious how they so frequently lack the necessary storage fixtures? If your closet has plenty of extra space and you’re struggling to make use of it, put in some wire shelving. These shelves can be used for storing dress shoes, boxes of seasonal clothes, decorative baskets of accessories like scarves, and more.

Plus, if you have no built-in shelf above your clothing bar, you can use wire shelving there instead. The space above your clothing bars is extremely useful and would be terrible to let go to waste. A long stretch of wire shelving would be just the thing to salvage it. Use this shelving to store boxes of knickknacks, accessories, notebooks you need semi-regularly, hats, and more.

4. Patio Plant Shelving

Finally, one of our favorite uses for wire shelving at home is as patio plant shelving. So many of us love keeping plants. They add a bit of life to our homes and give us something to do in our free time. If you enjoy keeping plants on your patio, wire shelving is the ideal display solution for them.

Wire bars allow loose soil to fall through instead of gathering on a surface. This open design also means watering them is no stress, as you won’t have to worry about warped wood or pooling. Plus, because plants will drain excess water, you can even set up your shelf so that you only need to water the plants on top. They’ll then drip unneeded water to the plants below, creating a wonderful trickle-down system that’s both practical and relaxing.

Keeping your kitchen cupboards organized is the first step to enjoying using your kitchen. However, it’s not an easy step for everyone. Organization is a skill that takes practice. Furthermore, kitchen cupboards involve fitting many differently-shaped items, all with different uses and levels of importance. It’s not as straightforward as packing things into a box for later; the contents of your cupboards need to remain accessible by priority. So, here are some tricks for organizing your kitchen cupboards.

Keeping Useful Backstock Only

The first step in organizing your kitchen cupboards is to only keep backstock that’s useful. What is backstock? It’s all of that food you keep around because you’ll use it one day, but not all today. Canned veggies and bags of rice are great backstock for when you want to make soup one rainy day.

However, a huge chunk of people’s cupboard space is often overtaken by backstock food items. If you can never seem to make room for new groceries, and you can’t really figure out why, there’s a good chance it’s that you simply have too much backstock.

To cut down on how much space is taken up by backstock, start by checking expiration dates. You’ll be surprised how many things have been sitting untouched for 5 years.Yes – even when you swear you didn’t buy them that long ago.

After removing expired foods, if you still have quite a few boxes of instant food or canned items, pull some of it out for use this week. Make 3 recipe piles on your counter and pile some backstock food into them. This week, you can surely use some of it up by making soup, chili, a rice dish, or some other food that uses lots of preserved food.

Separating Spices

One of the biggest mistakes people make with their cupboard space is keeping their spices with everything else. Separate your spices. No matter how you cut it, spices do not stack well. Trying to find what you’re looking for will lead to knocking over stacks and making an organizational disaster.

Instead, opt for a wire spice rack that can be mounted on the pantry well. Another option is a countertop spice rack – maybe one that swivels. But, perhaps our favorite method of storage: use a drawer. A shallow drawer that isn’t big enough for much else is great for storing spices. Lay them down so their labels face up and line them up in your drawer. Finding spices will become easy as pie and they won’t fall all over while you look.

Storing Appliances Outside the Pantry

Another mistake that’s commonly made is storing appliances in the pantry. Organizing your kitchen cupboards becomes way easier when you don’t have to navigate around a crockpot. If you have a tall pantry as well as cabinets, store appliances in lower cabinets or on a wire rack instead of in the pantry. The pantry is easier to access than lower cupboards, so it should be used for food, which you need more often.

Clothing stores have a lot of unique needs when it comes to storage and hardware. For one thing, they need storage that people won’t see, but also additional storage that displays products visibly. One of the most invaluable solutions is wire shelving for clothing stores. Let’s take a look at why.

Lets Fabric Breathe

One of the #1 reasons to opt for wire shelving is that it’s so breathable. A lot of boutiques and clothing stores go for wooden shelving because it’s sturdier and looks high quality. However, the way it treats clothing doesn’t make those perks worthwhile.

Wooden shelving allows little breathability. The clothes on the bottom of a stack will absorb that wood smell, pick up dust from the shelf surface, and can even grow mildew if in a humid shop or environment.

Wire shelving, on the other hand, allows lots of air flow. Moisture and smells won’t get trapped in your clothing fabrics. Plus, wire shelving has minimal surface area for collecting dust, which means your clothes won’t pick it all up when stacked atop it.

Prevents Pests

Clothing stores don’t always change stock frequently, which means a stack of shirts may remain in the same place for many months. New shirts may be added to the stack, but they may not be fully removed for a while.

Solid surfaces, like those of wooden shelving, offer a great place for pests to hide or make their home. If you have a row of clothing stacks with a solid surface up against the wall behind it, you’re making pest real estate. Bugs that eat fabric, mice looking for a warm place to build a nest, and more can make home behind your clothing. This may be easy to notice on lower shelves, but higher up, you can’t see what’s going on without deliberately checking.

Constantly checking for signs of pests (which are pretty good at not being seen) takes more time than a clothing store owner wants to spend on such a task. A better, easier, and quicker solution is to opt for wire shelving. Without a solid surface to hide them from view, from light, and from falling through, most pests will steer clear.

Allows Stacking and Hanging

Wire shelving isn’t just better for the longevity of your clothing products, it’s also better for display practicality. Wire shelving can accommodate stacks of clothes as well as hangers. This presents 3 great options for displays:

1. You can display more clothing variety by stacking shirts above hung shirts of a different type.
2. Stacked clothes can provide quick stock for the hangers below. This makes it easy for customers to see the shirt without unfolding it. If they take the product on the hanger, staff can quickly put a new one in its place.
3. Outfits can be paired vertically. Shirts that go well with a set of jeans can be hung below that stack of jeans. This is great when you have an outfit on display. When someone falls in love with it, they can get the whole thing in one place.

Affordable from Keystone Home Products

If you need wire shelving for clothing stores in Toronto, Keystone Home Products is the place to get it. We offer high quality, affordable wire shelving for clothing stores. Buy storage and display solutions that will last. Contact us if you have any questions and we’ll be happy to help.

Many houses simply don’t have enough storage space, while others need a boost in design. Trying to add storage space without cluttering up a room can be difficult. If you want more storage space as well as a design statement piece, it’s time to buy affordable glass shelves in Toronto. Keystone Home Products’ affordable glass shelves in Toronto are the perfect way to improve storage and design aesthetic.

A Sleek and Beautiful Design

It can be hard to find the right balance between light and heavy interior design pieces. Too many heavy, bulky pieces of furniture, like bookshelves, can make a room feel cramped. Glass shelving helps keep things in the balance. Their transparency helps maintain light flow even after you’ve installed them. Keystone’s affordable glass shelves are perfect for a few books, statues, plants, and more. 

While glass is a great way to avoid weight in your design, your shelves still need to hold up under the weight of their contents. That makes cheap glass shelving a nightmare. One too many books and they could shatter. This is why quality is so important when buying glass shelving. Keystone’s affordable glass shelves are durable and made to stand up to all of the usual shelf contents. When buying Keystone quality, there’s no reason to worry about shelves breaking.

Glass Shelving Light flow

As we mentioned, one of the great features of glass shelving is the maintenance of light flow. If you have a small home, you won’t have to worry about your new shelves blocking the light. In fact, you can even place them in front of a window to improve privacy, or use up otherwise difficult-to-use space. Plus, with the addition of sunlight and the light flow quality of glass, you’ll be able to see shelf contents easily.

Have you ever tried displaying something on a wooden book shelf? To get the necessary lighting on a wooden bookshelf to make viewing decor or displays easily, the shelves must be far apart and there must be plenty of light in the room, ideally, directed at the shelf. Glass shelving can be placed closer together and requires less direct light to adequately show off its contents. This makes glass shelving great for small homes.

Easy to Clean

There’s another benefit to affordable glass shelving. It’s easy to clean! Many types of wooden bookshelves require wood-safe cleaners so that the finish isn’t ruined. Glass shelving, on the other hand, does not. You can use virtually any cleaner you like to wipe down your glass shelving. It won’t be easily damaged by the wrong choice.

Plus, glass can stand up to water a whole lot better than wood can. This makes glass shelving a great place for displaying a vase of flowers or a fish bowl, or a lot of small, potted plants. When moving any of these things or making changes to them, a little spilled water won’t damage your shelf. 

If you’re interested in purchasing affordable glass shelves for your home in Toronto, come to Keystone Home Products. If you have questions about our products, give us a call and we’ll be more than happy to help answer your questions.

If you have wire shelving in your home, you know how inconvenient it is for it to break. Even one bar breaking on wire shelving can make storing things more difficult. Plus, it really decreases the attractiveness of the shelving. Keystone Home Products is here to help you with your wire shelving replacement needs. Let’s check out what Keystone has to offer in terms of replacement.

Wire Shelving

Tired of your outdated, damaged, wire shelving? Keystone Home Products has quality, wire shelving to replace it with. What sets Keystone’s wire shelving apart from other brands is that our wire shelving is quality. If you want wire shelving that won’t break down after a few years of use, you can count on our products.

Keystone’s wire shelving is not just simple wire racks. They’re created with the intention of providing closet or room storage. There are wide shelves with hanger bars beneath them as well as smaller shelves which sit closer together.

Wire Shelving Modules

Wire shelving isn’t always in one piece. Often, it comes in modules that can be put together in any way you like. Of course, if a wire shelving module breaks, you can’t just buy a whole new wire shelf to fix that. Keystone Home Products offers wire shelving modules that are used in our closet organizers. If you need to replace a single module, you can do so by buying from us.

Or, if you have a standard wire shelf and would prefer something more modular, replace it with one of our modular shelves. You’ll have a more personalized shelving unit, made to hold whatever you’re looking to store. 

Wooden Shelving

Wire shelving is not everyone’s cup of tea. Therefore, if you have a wire shelf that’s recently kicked the bucket, it’s a great opportunity to move on from wire shelving. If wooden shelving is more your style, you’ll be happy to learn that Keystone Home Products has modular wooden shelving.

Keystone primarily markets wooden shelving as closet organizers. However, our wooden shelving is great for anywhere in the house. Choose how many shelves, how spaced apart they are, and additional features as well. Our wooden shelving is a great upgrade if you’re looking for something a bit sturdier than wire.

Our wooden closet organizers are not just shelves. They also come with drawers and hanger bars. One of their benefits is that they can be mounted to the wall. This makes cleaning the floors under them easy and keeps stored belongings away from the dusty floor. 

Shop Keystone

If you need help with wire shelving replacement in Toronto, Keystone Home Product is your one-stop shop for getting exactly what you need. Therefore, contact us today if you have questions about our products. Or, if you like to see products in person, come visit our store. We look forward to seeing you!

If your kitchen feels crowded or messy, Keystone Home Products has exactly what you need to improve it. For most kitchens, the answer is simply the need for more storage space. However, not just any storage space works for a kitchen. Here’s how Keystone can help improve your kitchen.

Organizational Dilemmas

One of the most common problems in any kitchen is the lack of organization. This isn’t always user error and is, more often than not, caused by inadequate space. So, how can you make the most of the space you do have?

Well, the first step is more storage space. While there might not be enough storage space for all of the food and appliances you own, there is likely some empty space to spare. If you have any free space in or adjacent to your kitchen, you have the potential for more storage space. If you’ve never considered that before, you’re probably feeling a spark of hope, and for good reason.

Storage Space

The problem that many people face when struggling with kitchen storage is that they overthink things. For many, if they run out of cabinet or pantry space, that’s the end of the road. They think the only solution would be adding more cabinets, which would involve renovating.

Not so! There is an affordable and simple alternative: shelving. Having some additional shelving along an empty wall can be life changing for someone with a crowded kitchen. The extra surface space can be used for any number of kitchen objects. However, not just any shelving will work ideally in a kitchen. Here’s why wire shelving is the superior choice.

Wire Shelving to Improve Your Kitchen

Wooden shelves may seem the easier choice, especially if you have a wooden shelf somewhere else in the house that you could commandeer. However, there are drawbacks to wooden shelves that aren’t present with wire ones.

Wooden shelving, having solid surfaces, corners, and, in most cases, a gap underneath, can contribute to pest problems and unsanitary food conditions from dust and the like. Wire shelving, on the other hand, has, as you guessed it, wire surfaces. These wire surfaces are difficult for bugs or mice to traverse, making it harder for them to access food. Plus, without adequate hiding places, they’re unable to make nests.

Function and Appearance

While many might opt for wooden shelves because it’s easier to store smaller things on them than wires, there’s a solution for that. Store smaller things, like cans, in a cupboard or pantry. This keeps them on a stable, wooden surface while also hiding the mess of cans from sight.

Focus your wire shelf storage on larger items, like cereal boxes, instant foods, bags of rice, and so on. The larger the items, the easier the shelf is to keep orderly, which is important if it’s always visible.

If you want to expand your kitchen storage, visit us at Keystone Home Products in Toronto. Or, call us with questions and concerns and we’ll be happy to help.

Keystone Home Products is back again with Part 2 of our pantry organization series. In Part 1, we briefly talked about how you should be categorizing shelves and where to put frequently used foods. In this part, we’re going to cover what to do with the backs of shelves.

Can Stores

While many canned foods get used regularly, sometimes we have things that just get stored indefinitely. For instance, canned beans, tomatoes, cream soups, and the like are all great for use in meal production. However, most of us won’t be needing these more than every few weeks. These staple products are best kept toward the back on the shelf that has instant foods at the front. This location makes them easy to fade into one another. Allow a little overlap when stacking your cans and boxes. Then, your pantry will be efficiently stocked, with no wasted space between sections.

Ingredients

We haven’t forgotten the foods that get in the way most frequently. Did you think we wouldn’t notice you’ve been wrestling with a bag of flour every time you’re trying to find that can of green beans? Create a section at the back of your bottom shelf for all of your baking ingredients. Very infrequent things should go near the back. Things like flour, sugar, and other staples should go in front of them.

If you’re taking our advice from Part 1 and putting your cereal at the front of the bottom shelf, great! You can now ignore your baking ingredients most of the time. When it comes time to make a batch of cookies, all you have to do is remove your cereal boxes. Simply set them aside temporarily and you can access all of your ingredients. When you’re done baking, lining the cereal back up on the shelf is an easy task.

Kitchen Storage

If, like many pantries, you have four shelves, you may be wondering what to do with the top shelf. It’s hard to reach, tends to collect junk, and isn’t very useful. The good new is, it actually is useful if you know the secret to using it effectively. Grab a stepstool and pull down whatever expired food you have hiding up there. It’s time to make good use of your highest shelf.

This shelf is specifically useful for kitchen storage. No, that doesn’t mean just food. If you have a countertop mixer or a crockpot that you don’t use more than once every month or two, this is the place for them. A lot of people leave appliances lined up on the kitchen counters but, the truth is, most of us really can’t afford to lose the counter space.

Putting appliances that you don’t use very much on the top shelf in the pantry allows you to actually use y our counters when cooking. The extra counter space is well worth an extra step in making crockpot chili every three months.

Of course, if you use your appliances pretty often, this isn’t the best use of your storage space. People who spend a lot of their time making food from scratch are, conveniently, more likely to have more stored goods. Instead of putting your crockpot on the top shelf, this is a great place for big bottles of oil, large bags of rice, dried beans, and many more. Owning a stepstool will make this style of pantry organization more accessible and it will serve a great purpose, keeping your bulk goods from piling up on the pantry floor.

Pantry organization is important, but so is space. If you want to maximize storage space, check out the shelving and storage equipment available from Keystone Home Products. Give us a call if you have any questions or need help starting your order.

Keeping your pantry functional can be quite difficult. More often than not, people will organize their pantry only to find it a mess again within a few weeks. All of the work put into their pantry organization has been lost in favor of functionality. Unfortunately, a messy pantry isn’t functional. Pulling things out and then putting them back in a space that’s easier to reach may seem functional while doing it, but it leads to disaster. What if we at Keystone Home Products told you that you can organize your pantry in a way that’s both functional and easily accessible?

Order of Frequency

For many, the compulsion to put larger items in the back is a hard one to combat. After all, smaller things should be easy to see and look through, right? The fact is, size rarely has anything to do with how you should organize your pantry. You should actually be organizing things by how frequently you use them.

If you put all of the things you use most often toward the front of the shelves, you won’t find your entire pantry in disarray shortly after organizing it. That’s because most of the pantry hasn’t been affected by your daily rummaging.

Frontrunners

Some items that should be put near the front of the shelves include:

• Cereal, if you or your kids eat it regularly. Lining cereal up along, perhaps, the bottom shelf makes it easy to retrieve and replace on the daily without disrupting your shelves.
• Frequently used cans or boxes. If you tend to eat a lot of canned or boxed foods, pick a shelf to dedicate to them. Put those that you like to have on hand, that you don’t use much, toward the back of the shelf. Reserve the front of the shelf for things that you use frequently and restock when going shopping.
  This is a great place for things like canned fruit, canned ravioli, or boxes of instant rice dinners. Putting these things on, maybe, the second lowest shelf would make them easy to look through and access.
• Snacks should also go toward the front. Because snacks tend to get eaten and replenished often, they should go toward the front. Because snacks tend to come in medium or large sized boxes, these go great on a shelf slightly above eye level. This makes them easy to grab and replace without giving you the visibility that’s better reserved for small things.

Spices

One thing that definitely needs to be easily accessed but that tends to get in the way is spices. For these, we recommend buying a wire spice rack that can be mounted on the inside wall of the pantry. Trying to keep spices from falling over and becoming chaos on the expanse of a regular shelf is nigh impossible. However, giving them their own little place where they support each other and stay out of the way works great.

If you’re looking for wire shelving or other organizational products, Keystone is the best place in Toronto to find them. Give us a call or come visit our shop to see if we have what you’re looking for. Join us again for Part 2 to learn more about pantry organization.