Now ever since I've made my pot rack, I've wanted a way to store my pot lids so that I could completely clean out my former "pot cabinet." After some research I found several very ugly industrial looking
solutions. I figured I could improve upon them.
My grandmother died several years ago, and my mom has not gotten around to dealing with most of her possessions. So whenever I need something furniture-wise I tend to go mining in her house. I found exactly what I was looking for. A huge painting of ducks. Some stiles from Bart's Barn were purchased for 50 cents a piece to make up the rest of my supplies.
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| MR Ducks. |
I really hope none of my relatives painted this picture, because I slapped a coat of blue paint on it. I cut the ends off the stiles so they were as wide as the inside of the frame. I cut the ends into graduated blocks 1 inch, 1.5 inches, and 2 inches tall. Everything got painted blue. Then I used some white paint and some dark blue paint to mix up some just a little bit different color blue. To stripe the stiles I covered them with massive amounts of painters tape, painted the darker color over the lighter one, and hung them up to dry with cup hooks.
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| Hung from a string attached to a temporary nail in my rafter. |
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| Remove tape while the paint is still wet! |
Then I went about attaching the stiles to the blocks of wood. I clamped the stiles to the table to prevent them from rolling on me.
Then I carefully leveled the stiles and screwed them in from the back of the picture. I put the shortest stile/lid bar at the top and the tallest at the bottom. For good measure I added a spare bit of wood with a bunch of cup hooks to hold utensils. I hung it on an unused wall in my kitchen. The only way I can get a photo of this actually hung on the wall is to put my camera inside my pantry. So here it is. Yes I know the picture is not fabulous. It's dark in my pantry.
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| Yay storage! |
