The fancy restaurant supply places have some expensive wire racks and shelves (Container Store also, and probably many other places). Check Sam's Club first if you're thinking of shopping for some of those- you can save a lot. I have a six-shelf rolling heavy duty chrome wire rack that is my pantry. It sits in the hall, and I have bungee cords wrapped around it to keep things from pitching off. VT, you probably don't have Sam's Club, but do you have Walmart? They're affiliated.

maeve, when you're wiring the electric, think about placing some junction boxes and running cat-5 for data. In this day and age, those are very useful. I realized I could wire my house easily through the attic, and I've run a data line and a coaxial cable into the living room, the front room, my office, my sun room, and the front of the three bedrooms. I'll probably put them in the two other bedrooms when it warms up again in the spring. I get the Leviton covers and jacks at Home Depot and they're cheap and easy to wire. I also ran phone line and jacks, but for now, we don't have a land line. I could reuse that line for something else, put on a different jack. I ran it as a star pattern, radiating out from the hall closet where I've plugged in the modem and router that serves up to four wired locations. Even if you set up only a couple, they're useful for when people want to plug in games (Wii, Playstation, etc.), computers, or things like a BluRay player that streams Internet and Netflix. I know, I'm getting ahead of your anticipated technology and devices, but it is a lot easier to run those lines and install the j-boxes now than to do it later and fish for line in the walls.

SRS