So I have been absent from my blog for quite a while now. Sorry to all of my loyal readers, if I have any left. I promise I am going to try to do better! The past few months have been incredibly busy! We have just finally been able to stay at home for a few weekends, and I have been able to work on a few projects that have been on my list for quite a while!
I love for things to be organized! I am very OCD organized, especially when it comes to my kitchen. I have been wanting to build custom drawer organizers for some of my drawers for a while now. I couldn't find any drawer organizers that I could buy that fit my needs. So this has really been driving me crazy!
So here are the three drawers in need of something!
In our silverware drawer, I had bought this silverware organizer before we got married, not knowing what type of drawer space we would have. We have huge kitchen drawers, which is soooooo nice! I put the little plastic baskets in the back to hold some extra forks and spoons that we have. What can I say, we use a lot of spoons! Ha! It drives me nuts, of course, that the baskets are different from the organizer and that all of the serving utensils on the right are just free to move around as they please.
This is about the closest thing we have to a junk drawer. This is located right between the oven and the fridge. So we keep all of the potholders, pens and markers, timer, a few little neccesities (post its, tape measure, hammer), and Ben's 536,720 koozies(Okay, maybe not that many, but it sure seems like it when I open the drawer and they go flying everywhere!) in this drawer! So my goal for this drawer was to have a little more depth than the current baskets provide.
Okay, I think this drawer speaks for itself. This is an organizer's nightmare! Just a ton of free-floating utensils! You can see I always tried to keep them somewhat separated. Yet, as soon as my not-so-organized husband puts up the dishes, they just get completely jumbled! I do have to give him some credit. He is really good about putting things back where they go, if they have a specific place. Otherwise, he doesn't care. Haha!
So onto what I came up with. I used some graph paper, drew up my designs after taking measurements. I decided to not do an exact tutorial because everyone's drawers are different and you would just have to come up with your own measurements. I just took the measurement of the drawer and then decide what size spaces I needed based off of what was going in the drawer.
When coming up with the measurements, don't forget to add in the thickness of the wood. I bought my wood at Lowes. For the silverware drawer, I used the 1/4 x 3 x 4 Poplar boards. Then for the other drawers, I wanted more depth, so I used the 1/4 x 4 x 4. They also sell them in 2' strips, but the 4' worked out better for my measurements and was the cheapest way to go.
I bought the wood and marked all of my measurements out and got Ben to cut them for me. Then, I sanded them really well. Now they were ready for assembly. I have seen where some people have glued their's together. I really preferred not to do this. My sister and brother-in-law have a brad nailer. So they offered to nail them together for me. (Thank you Ana and David!) This was so much quicker and easier than trying to glue them together.
So here is what it looked like where David nailed them together.
I decided to not use boards on the outside of 2 of them because they went all the way to the edge of the drawer and were stable like this. This saved me a little money.
I filled all of the nail holes and seams with wood filler and sanded them. So now they were ready for paint! I primed and painted them white to match my drawers.
Here is the finished product!
No more jumbled utensils or flying koozies, very uniform, and a space for everything! I am in love! Haha! It doesn't take much to make this girl happy!
