Pantry Door Organizer

In case I haven't mentioned it, we live in 990 square feet.  I don't mean to complain.  Really, I don't.  Soon, very soon, we will have a house, and I will be one happy woman!!  But for now, I have to adapt.  I am constantly looking for efficient ways to organize my small space. 

Welcome to my teeny-tiny pantry:

I don't mean to scare you, but this pantry is teeny!  It is less than 18 inches wide.  Yikes!!  So much to store and simply not enough room!!  I needed serious solutions.  

I started out by making this lovely bag holder to hang on the inside of my pantry.  This could quite possibly be my most useful craft ever.  It's more than just a bag holder.  Because we have no room for a garbage can, we have a garbage bucket, and we use plastic bags as our garbage bags.  I am constantly stuffing this beauty!

For weeks, I had also been dreaming about some way to organize my wax paper, saran wrap, and aluminum foil boxes.  By eliminating them from my shelves, I could have space for more important things--like food, for instance. :)  So here is how I designed my pantry door organizer:

I love the way it turned out!!  I hang it just underneath the bag holder on my skinny pantry door. 

Here are just a couple of notes:

* I made the pockets extra wide to accommodate that boxes' huge width.  I measured all the way around my boxes to get the most accurate pocket width measurements.

* Admittedly, my design isn't perfect.  It tends to lean towards the center a bit.  I'm sure with an even stiffer fabric, it would hang even.  Oh well.

* I am still debating, but I had originally designed to store ziplock bags in the top part.  If you look at some of the early pictures, I have pockets with holes prepared to stuff ziplock bags in.  Maybe I will.  Maybe I won't.

Happy organizing!