We are, slowly but surely, working up to remodeling our kitchen. You know, provided the Firefighter and I can come to an agreement on what exactly goes where.

Don't worry. We'll get there.

But one of the things we have known from the start is that our someday kitchen will feature open shelves.

After all, when you are talking about a space roughly 10 x 7 in size, upper cabinets just tend to feel a little, well... overhead-compartment-while-traveling-in-coach...ish?

You know what I mean?

Clunky and constrictive. 

So this past Saturday, amid all the storms and humidity, I gave our storage containers a facelift.

With matching lids and lovely little chalk labels.

They turned out quite nice, don't you think?

Totally open shelf worthy...