Organized Spice Drawer
I love starting off the new year with a few good home organization projects. I have been spending a lot more time in my kitchen lately and the one area I was struggling with was how to best organize all of the spices. All of the mismatched bags and jars were in a basket that lived on the top shelf of a cupboard. It was always such a pain everytime I had to shuffle through the basket to find what I needed, and it was often a messy process trying to scoop out the spices from the little jars. I have seen beautiful spice drawers in high end custom kitchens which I love, however I knew that I could come up with something similar for a fraction of the cost! I have a very small drawer right beside my oven that was holding a single pair of oven mitts. I knew I could better utilize this space and figured that it would make the perfect spice drawer. I love how it turned out and most importantly how convenient and practical it is.
This is what I started with. Not horrible, but not great either. My plan was to find coordinating jars that I could fill up with spices and store in a drawer. Before I started my search for the perfect jars I measured out the space in my drawer to make sure the jars I was purchasing would fit.
I lucked out and found THE perfect little glass jars at the dollar store. They came in a pack of three so they were extremely cost effective, and they happened to fit perfectly 6 rows of 3 jars each. Before I filled them up I washed them and made sure they were 100% dry.
Next you want to label your spice jars. I stuck the labels on the lid so I could easily read them when I opened the drawer. I loved that these labels were round and clear. It was important to me for the jars to have clear lids so that I could easily see when they needed to be refilled.
Once you have all of the jars labeled it is time to fill them with your favorite spices. I like to do this over a plate to catch any spills that may happen.
Although the jars fit very well in this drawer, I decided to add some drawer liner to avoid anything sliding around. This worked out great and really prevents any of the glass jars from moving around.
Finally you can fill up the drawer with all of those pretty little jars.
I absolutely love how this little project turned out! It doesn’t take much to make a space look great and be functional at the same time. Even though this is hidden in a drawer 99% of the time it’s so pleasing everytime I open it and look inside.
A beautiful custom spice drawer that cost next to nothing!
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Lori Christopherson on Jan 14, 2022
I love your idea. Just having the spice jars with matching labels makes it look so much nicer. I redid my spice jars last summer with the vintage jars and wooden racks I have from the 70's.
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Ibg56704386 on Jan 14, 2022
Great, thank you!
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What size are the jars, 2 oz or 3oz. My Dollar Store doesn't have them, will have to look elsewhere
Which Dollar store do you shop at? Tree, General, Family? Maybe since this was a post in 2021 they no longer carry them.
I have extremely download drawers. I've never had such shallow drawers. That's a new apartment I moved in. I can't even stack my little measuring cup set. Please give me some advice.