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Modern California Closet Pantry

by jessimorganhome | Apr 4, 2022 | Before-After, Organizing Tips, Renovation

Our contemporary kitchen pantry is one of my favorite renovation projects so far. It has evolved let me tell you, but it is beautiful and functional for our family.

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Backstory: Our home was built in 1976, and the previous owner lived here for 28 years but failed to update anything but the floors. Yes, so you know there is work to be done.

The original space! We had a small pantry and a small refrigerator. When we bought a new fridge it did not fit, so we had to relocate that.

Anyways, last year in 2021 we tackled the pantry area of the kitchen. We lacked space and for re-sell purposes that would hurt us tremendously. In the long run, we decided to revamp it with the help of California Closets. We love our contemporary kitchen pantry so much, and it has turned out to be extremely functional for our family. Here are the ends and outs of our pantry:

Small fridge & Pantry = less home value – Originally the space had a small pantry with wired shelving and an old folding door. You couldn’t fit anything in there. If we try to sell right now, we potentially can discourage buyers due to the lack of space in the kitchen.
We originally were just going to replace the fridge, but when it arrived it did not fit! We decided to move it to the other side of the kitchen and expand the pantry.
Expand Expand when you can! – We knocked out the little wall and made one huge space to install the open pantry. It has made such a difference in being able to hold all our food and seeing what we have.
Power cord hidden – That is a must have in a pantry always. My coffee machine to my tea kettle all work!

Add design to your pantry when you can – Simple peel & stick wallpaper was the trick for me. I wanted some excitement on the walls before the unit was installed. It now looks like a stunning contemporary kitchen pantry.

After the wallpaper was installed. Details of wallpaper at the end of this post

Used simple white bins from the container store at different sizes to “contain” everything in the pantry.

Used “The Home Edit” labels – but to make them stand out more, I bought a simple white label and drew with black marker then finally placed the Home Edit label. Check out my reel with this process
Cereal dispenser – They are great! If you can afford them, get them. Better way to hold a lot with less space. No more baulky cereal boxes.

Separate your pantry by categories that work for you – We split our bins into the following categories:
1. Cooking – all cooking recipes and canned food used to cook
2. Snacks – we love our snacks, sorry!
3. Spreads – We use a lot of peanut butter, almond butter and more
4. Grains
5. Condiments
6. Coffee
7. Pasta
8. Sweetner
9. Juices
10. Cookies

Shop dupes and everything I used below! Shop with me on more things too!

XO,

Jessi Morgan

Target Easter Decor

by jessimorganhome | Mar 27, 2022 | Home Decor

Its spring! And I am actually decorating a small area of my home in bunnies and eggs! Target easter decor is the way to go, when you want to stay on a budget but have a fun feel in your home.

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My entire set up was under $100! I love the colorful eggs and cute little bunnies that are all under $25 dollars each to purchase. Shop the best decor pieces from Target below. I will admit I do have one thing from amazon from my display too. I will tag that as well.

Happy Easter and enjoy these target easter decor items! What are your plans? Check out other LTK posts

XO,

Jessi Morgan

Vinyl Records Display

by jessimorganhome | Mar 23, 2022 | Home Decor, Organizing Tips, Uncategorized

Let me show you how to create a great vinyl records display. If you are a music lover and collect vinyls or even movie posters or art, using the IKEA picture shelves is golden. I recently inherited over 100 vinyls from my grandparents.

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A couple of weeks ago my mom was at my grandfather’s house and discovered vinyl records in their attic! My grandfather at first was going to toss them. But thank goodness my mom decided to hold onto them and give them to me and my husband to inventory.

I was blow away! I discovered some classic records that potentially are the original recordings. My grandparents had Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album, it still had the price of $5.99 and stamped with the famous “Tower Records” label! I found Richard Pryor to Marvin Gaye in here as well.

Now that we have these treasures we need to have a vinyl records display. I have never been a fan of stacking records on their side, I find it not flattering. I feel that the album covers need to be exposed head on.

Here is what we did to make our wall of vinyls extremely appealing:

These are the perfect ledges for vinyl records

IKEA picture ledges – these are beautiful & simple and can hold a vinyl without it slipping off the wall.
Keep it white – I decided to purchase white picture ledges in order for our dining room space to remain clean and balanced. We already have wood shelving on the walls and black display cases. In order to not make the room heavy we decided to keep the new ledges white.
Color coordinated – to keep the wall from looking busy I wanted to group similar vinyl covers together by color. This is a great way to keep the feel of the wall clean as well.
45 inch ledges – I wanted to keep simple long lines on the walls so I went with their longest picture ledge they had so there was minimal break between them.

Check out the finished product. I am beyond excited for this display and it will be an awesome conversational piece when we have guests.

Shop some of my dupes for picture ledges below and other vinyls I am loving right now!

Key Vinyls we found:

1965 Smokey Robinson & Temptations
1979 Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
1959 Nat King Cole – Welcome to the Club
1964 Marvin Gaye – How sweet it is to be Loved by you
1973 Glady’s Knight & the Pips – Imagination
1982 Dream Girls – Broadway Album
1985 Dionne Warwick – Friends

Will share more soon!

XO,

Jessi Morgan

Spring Refresh Family Room

by jessimorganhome | Mar 9, 2022 | Before-After, Home Decor

I love that my home can transition over the seasons easily.

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But I wanted to have a little spring refresh family room this year! It was minimal but had a major impact still.

What did I do? Check out what I did:

New Pillows – It just transformed the space beautifully! I wanted bigger pillows that are comfy as well so anyone can fall asleep on our couch if needed. I went with more neutral colors as well so everything is more uniformed especially since I have the blue Teddi accent chair from American Signature Furniture.

Pillows are from Target; scroll to the bottom for details

Neutral throws – We already have neutral reclining chairs and at times they can get dirty so we decided to add throws over them to protect them as well as bring comfort. Its a great way to easily keep things clean and throws are great companions to pillows.

Kept some color – Having the awesome blue accent chair just brightens the room all on its own. It also compliments the display of colorful coffee table books on the TV console in this room as well.

Shop what items I got for our spring refresh family room below! How are you freshening up your home?

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How are you refreshing your home for spring?

XO,

Jessi Morgan

Bathroom organizer Target hacks

by jessimorganhome | Feb 22, 2022 | Before-After, Home Decor, Organizing Tips

We needed organization…badly! We had this stunning bathroom vanity that we remodeled in 2020 but we couldn’t keep it organized. I finally bought some great bathroom organizer Target hacks that made our life easier in our master.

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These simple bins in the drawers did the trick! Shop at the bottom for my favs.

Very excited to share how we organized and that it did not cost a arm and a leg. Check it out below.

Here are the steps we took:

Pulled everything out & threw it away – Between my husband and myself we have a lot of cosmetic items. And going through them was great because there were things we didn’t use anymore or they were empty! So why keep it?

2. Bins, Bins and optimization – I bought all of my bins and organization stuff from Target. It was a great price and good quality that will last. I bought bins and a nice chrome pull out drawer. The bins are perfect to put in drawers to make sure everything stands up.

3. Categorize & Sub-categorize – I made sure we separated our items by “His & Hers” and then by facial cleansers, lotions, moisturizers etc. It is now so easy to locate everything.

4. Make the vanity countertop pretty – I bought 2 amazing marble trays for each of our sink areas. I love being able to house all the key toiletries we use daily together and it still looks clean. Bought both at Target, they are perfect and go well with our black sinks.