Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Martha Stewart in me

One of the challenges of our new pad is that the drawer space in the kitchen is VERY limited. So I have had to get creative with storage of things you'd put in drawers.

I want to go for an 'Old World' feel for our apartment and I wanted something that would look good and be functional for all my spatulas, etc. This is what I came up with. I took a normal glass flower vase (this one was from Walmart...$3.97) and some hemp/twine.


I wrapped it around the vase, securing it with a little hot glue every now and then. This is the finished product:

2 comments:

ChristinaS said...

very cool! It looks great!

Abby said...

Awesome idea! We, too, had the drawer space problem with our last apartment. The entire kitchen had...wait for it...ONE drawer. That's where our cutlery went. We bought a microwave cart that had another drawer to stick larger cooking utensils in, and then I had to get me one of those thingies you made yourself for the ones I used the most. And the rest went in storage. We made due like that for a very good long time. I can't even remember what I did with stuff like kitchen linens. Huh.