The issue of storing kitchen utensils is one of the most pressing. After all, you must admit that the housewife’s mood, and therefore the quality of the dishes she prepares, depends on the order in the kitchen. It turns out that you can not only create perfect order in the kitchen, but also do it as stylishly and conveniently as possible.
Storing dishes and accessories is a pressing issue for housewives.
Table stand
An excellent device that helps during cooking. No more searching for a place for a hot lid covered with condensation droplets. All moisture will drain onto the stand, and the heated elements will not damage the tabletop. It is also recommended to place a spatula or ladle here.
What can you use to make a cheap stand for pot lids in the kitchen?
Each kitchen is a sanctuary of modern urban life, where chickens, beef, vegetables and fruits are sacrificed to one's culinary preferences and prepared into delicious and nutritious dishes. But in order for a modern kitchen not just to be a place for cooking and eating food, but also a place where everything glows with attractiveness and creativity, it’s worth doing at least something useful with your own hands.
A kitchen stove cannot be created, and special tools will be required to create a beautiful countertop. Therefore, the choice may fall on a stand for lids - it’s easy to do, and it’s very easy to give the stand a creative design.
Sliding stand
An interesting, versatile device that can be adjusted in length to suit your storage needs. For this reason, the stand can be used on a countertop, open shelf or wall cabinet. Reliable as it is made of stainless steel.
Suitable not only for storing boards and pot lids, but also frying pans, baking trays and baking dishes.
Door mounts
This method is only suitable for storing lightweight pot lids and durable doors. It saves space in the closet because it does not take up interior space. The device is fixed with adhesive tape. To secure, you can also use hooks, which are sold in construction and hardware stores. If the cabinet door does not allow this, use the front part of the kitchen facade for storage.
A more convenient form of holder for storing pot lids consists of two parts, since they can be installed at any distance. The device is made of durable plastic and is fixed to the wall with adhesive tape.
Fixation with hooks
Wall holder
A budget solution for those who are not embarrassed by open storage of kitchen utensils. This product can be hung on a railing or fixed directly on the wall. An alternative option is to place the holder on the inside door of the cabinet or on its side wall. The height depends on the number of covers, and finding a suitable device is not difficult.
Non-standard storage methods
Knowing unusual ideas for placing lids, pots or other large utensils, the housewife can apply them independently or with the help of her husband. And you can save money on buying a new headset or converting an old one with modern retractable systems and consoles.
Cabinet doors
Buy hooks with double-sided tape at hardware or hardware stores. You need to attach them to the inside of the cabinet doors according to the following scheme:
- at a distance slightly greater than the diameter of the lid, glue 2 hooks on a single horizontal straight line, placing their beaks facing each other;
- from the middle of the line connecting the hooks, set aside ½ of the diameter of the lid;
- At the marked point, glue 1 hook, placing it with its beak facing up.
Place the lid into the slot formed by the hooks. A flat object will not interfere with closing the door, but it will no longer lie in a drawer or on the table, cluttering the work area.
If the shelves are located at a distance of 3-5 cm from the door in the closed position, then frying pans can also be placed on the inside of the doors, hanging them by handles that have holes for a hook.
Ends and external walls of kitchen furniture
Sometimes when installing cabinets, there are gaps that are difficult to fit any useful things into. Equip these walls with hooks and store pans and lids there. At the ends of the set, which are not adjacent to walls or other furniture, it is convenient to arrange shelves where various containers will fit compactly. Using scraps of MDF and wheels, in collaboration with your husband, you can even make a retractable console, which will be convenient to install in a narrow gap.
You can use the side wall of a tall cabinet to place shelves: it often remains empty. This surface can easily be turned into a system for compact storage of dishes, equipping it with stands and hangers, hooks, shelves and rods.
Internal walls of cabinets
Like the doors, they can be equipped with hooks for hanging frying pans, lids, saucepans or saucepans with 1 long handle. This system allows you to make full use of the internal space of small cabinets.
Under wall cabinets
The distance from the bottom of the wall cabinet to the working surface of the table most often also remains empty. But massive objects or small dishes placed in its upper part will save space in other departments of the set.
In order to equip a new storage area, railing rods with hooks or special grips for wine glasses will be useful. Neatly hung dishes will serve as a decorative addition to a Provence style kitchen.
Drawers in the plinth
These boxes will require the help of a furniture maker or a skilled spouse. Some of the sets have high plinths, the space inside of which can be used for storing frying pans, lids and low pots and saucepans.
To re-equip, you need to assemble flat boxes with your own hands and equip them with rollers. The front wall is covered with MDF. Such boxes can be easily moved under the floor sections, and it is convenient to store not only dishes, but also vegetables in them.
Additional shelving, consoles and carts
If you have empty walls above or next to tables, create additional storage space. A home craftsman can easily assemble simple open shelves from leftover plywood and MDF. They do not have to be placed in the form of a standard rack.
Create a panel from open shelves: arrange them in a slide, ladder, or as your imagination dictates. You can use unusual items: beautiful fruit or wine boxes, as well as parts of roof railing systems. On such racks, polished pans and pots will look like part of the kitchen decor.
Roll-out consoles can be installed not only in headset gaps. Any narrow and unused spaces behind cabinets or refrigerators, or behind the front door are suitable for them. The width of these pieces of furniture rarely exceeds 20 cm and they can be placed in places that are inconvenient for other furniture.
Engage the window
Kitchens decorated in naive rustic styles allow the use of window openings as storage areas. Hanging systems, railings, hooks and stands of various types are installed here. It is important not to place too many dishes in the opening so as not to interfere with the sunlight coming from the window.
When thinking about placing storage boxes in a window opening, make sure that they open freely. It is important that you can easily reach shelves and additional hangers. Otherwise, you will have to climb a stepladder to get each item you need.
Compartment in the cabinet drawer
If you are the owner of wide and deep kitchen cabinets, then the question of how to place the lids can be solved without difficulty. A spacious compartment should be provided inside the roll-out box, which will allow you to ergonomically organize its filling. Compartments can be built-in or purchased separately.
Pull-out narrow shelves for lids above the tabletop
When creating a kitchen project, take care of your comfort and provide a special narrow drawer directly under the countertop. Its height can be from 5 to 15 cm: in a horizontal position, up to five covers of different sizes can be placed there. When choosing the height, pay special attention to the shape of the handles on the lids - the more they protrude, the higher the drawer should be.
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Hanging holder
A clever way to store lids is to string them onto the handles of saucepans and frying pans and hang them on special hooks. It’s convenient that everything is sorted immediately and does not require time to search and select a set. The method is suitable for those who cook a lot and have a whole collection of pots, ladles and other utensils.
Container
Pull-out containers are made when creating a kitchen set. They can be plastic, wood and metal. Some are presented for storing exclusively lids and pans, while others are universal for small kitchen appliances.
The disadvantage of this method is that you need to plan this at the initial stage of installing the kitchen, then it will be economical and practical.
Storing dishes in drawers has become popular. A deep box is suitable for this, which is divided by metal dividers and holes are created for the lids. This item can easily be made with your own hands.
How to make a stand for caps from plastic bottles, see the video below.
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Railings
The simplest solution for large-scale storage of dishes and cutlery on the wall. You can hang everything you need for cooking on the rails: items will always be at hand, and the worktop will remain free. It is worth considering that the surface underneath must be resistant to mechanical stress and easy to clean.
Life hack: small roof rails can be placed on the inside of the facades.
Together with other dishes
A more compact storage option is to put the lids in the same box as the rest of the dishes, but allocate separate sections for them on the sides, fencing them off with delimiters or placing them in the same stands.
However, it is not very convenient to bend over every time behind an ordinary lid, pull out and close the drawers. The table may be located away from the stove, and then cooking will turn into continuous running around the kitchen.
Under the shelf
A stylish small open shelf for plates and cups can take on the additional load of several pans. A place for such a shelf can be found above the cutting table or above the sink if you prefer not to clutter up the kitchen with massive storage systems.
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