While waiting for the glue to dry on my loft ladder, I assembled a shelf to add more storage space to the cavernous over sink cabinet in my kitchen. I wanted to be able to store my big mixing bowls under it and have room on top for the Pyrex and dinner plates. Can you imagine that I have not thus far had a proper place for my dinner plates? They are too wide for the other over sink cabinet and laying them flat in the cavernous cabinet meant they would get buried under ‘stuff.’ They usually wound up on their edges, leaning against a cabinet wall and would roll out the minute I opened the door!

same cabinet, double the amount of storage space

While in the design phase of this project, I realised that the shelf was going to need a lip to hold things in place. So, I was delighted to find a piece of particle board from the study bedframe that just so happened to have a lip already in place. I just had to cut the piece down to the right dimensions, add legs to it, and then take a few inches off its width because I couldn’t actually get it into to the cabinet!

Not bad for a half hour’s worth of work!

(If you guessed that tonight I will be rearranging my kitchen cabinets and organizing them, you are correct!)