Add Vertical Storage to Empty Kitchen Space in 20 Minutes

by Jennifer Tucker

$3-10

20 Minutes

Easy

Do you have any unused vertical space in your kitchen? Don't you hate it when you have something that you keep losing track of because it doesn't have a proper home?

wasted space in the kitchen, kitchen design, organizing, storage ideas

For me it's my little collection of food magazines. I have a rather small collection and some of them are a few years old. But I do like to keep them on hand for reference when I creating new recipes. They are a bit big and floppy to keep on the shelf with my cookbooks so I've been tucking them in various places around the kitchen. Bad plan, believe me.

This is what the space looked like before . . .

Since I knew it wouldn't need to hold much weight (I mainly just collect food mags when the mood strikes) I didn't worry about anchoring the rail or the wooden ledge at all. I used 2 small corner braces under the ledge to attach it to the cabinet wall and they are quite sturdy.

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Rena Noele on Sep 18, 2016
Is the metal bar a towel rack or something from IKEA? Please tell me what it is and where you bought it?

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Eileen Martin on Apr 13, 2017

What is the ziploc box thing

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Katherine on Nov 01, 2019

Where did you find this kind of magazine rack and how did you attach the TOP railing to the cabinet?

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