Joanna Gaines knows her way around a home renovation project. I mean, hello, she co-hosted Fixer Upper for half a decade. But now, in her post-HGTV era, the Magnolia brand co-founder isn’t quite knocking down drywall and tearing up floorboards with her husband Chip.
Instead, the interior designer is tackling smaller projects (like revamping a playroom and building an art workshop at the Silos) for her series on USA, appropriately dubbed Mini Reni. For the season’s sixth episode, fans get a peak inside the Gaines’ extra bedroom—and the stunning, gorgeous, jaw-dropping butler’s pantry Joanna turned it into.
In the episode, which premiered on Wednesday, June 11, the Magnolia matriarch moves her youngest child, Crew, to the big kids’ room and decides to capitalize on the milestone by expanding her own kitchen.
“When we decided to turn the space into a butler’s pantry, I considered the look and feel. I knew I wanted it to look like a natural extension of the farmhouse, while also feeling cozy and moody and filled with the things that inspire creativity in me, from the honey-filled jars that line shelves to old family recipes I had framed and put on display,” Gaines writes on her blog. “This room, in all of its iterations, has held the life of our family in so many meaningful ways, and I can’t wait to see how it shapes this next season.”
The Before
According to Gaines, this room at the farm in particular has held “many different roles” since the family moved in 12 years ago.
“First, it was an office, then a family den. When Crew surprised us all we turned it into his nursery, then a toddler room,” she writes. “That’s how it stayed until our oldest moved away for college and Crew asked if he could finally move into the big kids’ room.”
The After
While, technically, it is a mini renovation project, Gaines still made a lot of changes to the space—as evidence by the finished product. She wrapped the room with a vertical “tongue-and-groove paneling” and touched up the trim for a clean, polished, and textured look. She also painted everything (including the walls, ceiling, and trimwork) with Cottage Grove Trim, Door + Cabinetry Paint in Satin Finish, and added black-and-white tiles over the existing pine wood floors.
Beyond just the cosmetic changes and touch-ups, Gaines also added a custom, wall-length hutch and built-in cabinetry to hold alllll her cooking and baking supplies, as well as dolomite countertops and a copper sink. There’s even a brass hanging bar to store her dry herbs and flowers in the cutest weck jars.
Gaines not only designed the pantry to a T, but put as much attention into curating the shelves and decorating the countertops. The opening shelving concept features her dinnerware on display and canisters filled with ingredients (all of which you can shop!)(below!).
She adorned the forest green walls with pressed herbarium prints for a whimsical touch. If only I could recreate this in my 500-square-foot studio apartment…
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