November 2010
As work continued on our kitchen, we started to think more about storage solutions in our little space. One thing we needed to deal with was our growing spice collection. In the past, we have always lined them up on the top of the stove in an orderly, if not super elegant formation. Our new stove does not sit close enough to the wall to allow this to continue (ie. they kept falling behind the stove which lead to frequent cursing). The solution was to line them up on the window sill above the sink, which was also not ideal. I decided we need to buy a spice rack, the only problem was there aren't a lot of spice racks. Who knew?
The only spice racks I could find were made for the counter top, definitely no room there, or else were super modern and didn't quite match our kitchen. Next, Josh and I thought about building one, which seemed a time consuming and frustrating solution. Luckily, things can happen when your not quite looking. We were at IKEA buying a bookcase for the office and it occurred to me we would need to buy spice jars that were all the same size. After buying 24 spice jars I thought... what if we just bought some shadow boxes to put them in? However, there were no shadow boxes that were the right size, yet, there was a small planter box that did seem the right fit. We brought three home and held them up, perfect fit! They were deep enough to hold the jars but slim enough to not block the window. We painted each box (4 coats in total) and screwed them on to the wall. A little bit of caulk (cause what project doesn't involve some) and some touch up and for $43 bucks we had a complete and custom spice rack.
Another kitchen project completed!
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