5 Simple Kitchen Storage Projects

I've had big kitchens and I've had small kitchens, but the number one problem that stayed the same was kitchen organization. And kitchen organization has always been the bane of my existence. Well, today I'm going to show you the top five DIY kitchen storage solutions that'll be perfect for any size kitchen. Let's get started. Under the sink cabinets are notorious for being a catch-all for all the most random things you can imagine, from sponges to pool solutions to even cleaning products and I guess an internet router. So, for our first DIY kitchen sword solution, I want to create a large platform that will have ball bearing slides to be able to pull out the entire base cavity so you can put your totes and anything else you need and be able to go around the P trap that comes from the sink up top. This one's going to be exciting. Let's get into it. I have here a full sheet of 3/4in maple plywood. I got a good feeling we could bust out a few of these storage solutions with at least one sheet. So, here's what I'm thinking. We're going to start with a pullout drawer that's going to have all these organizational dividers in there that you can put everything in the right place. Then we're going to have an elevated side on both sides with a bumpout section like a rack for additional storage. And in the back we'll just reinforce it towards the bottom leaving this little corner up front to be the most weakest spot. But we're not anticipating anything heavy going [Music] there. All [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] right, got all of our pieces cut here. Got our sides, got our shelves. Everything's good. 4 in deep. I've made everything custom to the width of my personal cabinet, so it doesn't make sense to blurt out what the measurements are. Besides, it's boring. Now, I laid out where the pocket holes are going to go. I'm going to bust them out real quick. The only other fancy thing we're going to do is we're going to put a rabbit cut down below or a dado cut specifically mentioned. And what that'll do is it'll allow for us to use quarter-inch underllayment to slide in for the upper shelves for the bottom so it's not too heavy. If you're a beginner builder, you could just use the same 3/4 in just pocket hole that thing on top. It's just a little bit added support. That's all it is. [Music] pocket hole screws, wood glue. If you're a beginner builder, get a brad nailer. Get some wood glue. No problem at all. Let's put it together. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right, here's what we got going so far. We made sure the pocket holes are on the inside. This is the front. You won't see them here. This is the back. You won't see them because they're here. For the bottom, to make my life easier, I just secured it with screws at the bottom. Nobody will know. And then for the shelves, because I won't be able to get my bit in here because this is too narrow, I'm going to secure them with screws on the side. wood fill them, sand them, and then nobody will know except you. If you come to my house, you'll know. That's just gonna have to stay between [Music] us. This is looking sick. Okay, there's a few things you need to do. We need to add our stabilizers in the back right here, both sides. I went ahead and premeditatively added the veneer in the back because I won't be able to access it once this is on. I also got my dividers in here that'll go in place. And we're just going to secure them with uh brad nails in front. Fill it. Won't be noticeable. And then screws from the bottom. Wood glue of course. Once that's done, we're going to veneer the crap out of this whole entire thing. And uh I'm still debating if we're going to stain it, but we definitely need to seal it with something. But probably going to hold up on stain. Let's get to it. [Music] Oh, we did good. We did real good. This sucker is awesome. I'm excited for it. It looks better in person than I had imagined it for it. Now, I'm not going to stain it. I wanted to match the same color tones as the inside of the cabinet. So, but what I am going to do is going to hit it with a couple of coats of this old rattle can. Clear polythane. Polythane. Nope. Polyacrylic. Uh just clear coat. Layman's terms. Uh just because stuff gets, you know, more likely to spill inside of here, chemicals. And when that happens, it there's a whole lot of staining to try to save it. So, this will kind of prevent stuff. Couple of coats should be good. And I'm not going to wear a mask because I don't know what my mask is, but I got the garage door opener, but you should definitely wear a mask. I'm just messing with you. Always wear a mask, folks. Don't be a hero. Wearing it for the long haul. It is in fact the next day. Everything's nice and dry. To install this, we're going to need 14-in full extension ball bearing sliders. Maximum weight 100 lb. Oh, yeah. We might also need some spacers on the side. So, grab some scrap 3/4in plywood or maybe even a 2x4. Who knows? Oh yeah, we might need some extra extenders on the side to bypass the face frame. But just grab some scrap piece of wood just in case we need it. Let's go. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Guys, this is my backer and this is my pride and joy. But taking care of your lawn can be very intimidating. There's so many different ingredients, so many different steps that you can apply to get a luscious green grass like this. Well, that's why I'm excited to share with you the sponsors of today's video, Sunday. Taking care of your lawn and applying all the proper nutrients is essential to getting a nice, beautiful, luscious green grass. But the process can be very intimidating. How much phosphate? How much nitrogen? How much potassium? 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All right. For this cup holder, we will be designing something out of a lighter material. That's why I'm going with just a scrap piece of 1/2-in plywood. Really, we can use the remainder of that 3/4 in stuff, but really, it's a little too bulky. And our goal here is to minimize it and make it as sleek, as tight as possible to that door so that we don't use too much of the space within the cabinet cuz that'll defeat the purpose. We're going to be wasting space. Let's slice it up and I'll show you the dimensions I'm working [Music] on. All right. So, here's what we're looking with so far. We have a piece that is roughly 19 1/2 by 13 in wide. We have 5 in panels on the sides. We have a 5x3 that goes right in the middle times two. Those are our shelves. And then we have the same 13 in in a 2in strip. That's going to be our guard rails here. Now, here's the only kicker. We have this sharp abrasive edge here. I don't like that one bit. Not at all. So, what I'm going to do is grab these, tape them together, and then create a radius, use my jigsaw, carefully cut it out, sand if I need it, and then we're all going to edge band this [Music] sucker. Everything's cut, everything's edgebanded, everything's sanded. Last order of business, I'm going to put pocket holes to attach everything together with wood glue, of course. If you do not have a pocket hole jig, don't worry about it. Maybe get one. That'd be nice. Always really handy. But what you can do is get yourself a brad nail gun and some wood glue and then make sure it's dry overnight. Then you can hang it. But brad nail gun, pocket holes, all will do great. [Music] This is so frustrating. I can't get into the pocket holes behind this guardrail. I could put brad nails on the sides, but I want it to look a lot cleaner and slicker. I don't want to put fillers in there, all that stuff. Uh, but if push comes to shove, I'm going to wrestle with it for a little bit. But if push comes to shove, I'll set my ego aside and I'll do some brad [Music] nails. You already know what time it is. Clear coat time. Well, would you look at that? Would you look at that? Absolutely drop deadad gorgeous. The clear coat settled it perfectly. And I made it so this is primarily the place I'm going to put it in the pantry inside the cabinet for all the protein shake tumblers. You know, for the gangs. Your boy needs the game. But, uh, I also made the top to be more universal. So, I could take my Yeti, I don't know what that's called, a tumbler, uh, and it'll fit. And it's narrow enough. I don't know if this will work with this one, but it works perfectly with the protein shakers where it goes in snug, uh, but not too snug and not too loose. So, just the right amount. The last thing we need to do, throw some counter sync holes. And then we're going to use 1-in screws to attach it to our cabinet. Easy, easy lemon squeezy. Let's go install. For our third DIY kitchen storage solution, we have lids for the pots and pans. Storing them is so inconvenient that we have to put the majority of the pots, pans, and skillets down below and then a completely separate drawer for the lids. That's not ideal. So, the solution that I came up with is being able to utilize the vertical cabinets that actually have doors on it. Now, here's the thing. My kitchen mostly has drawers, not a whole lot of doors except for the uppers. In this example, I'm going to create a solution that in case you have more drawers down below, you will be able to fit them. The reason I won't be able to fit them is cuz I have shelves in here and I don't want to give that up. So, this is strictly for example purposes to see if this is a solution that's right for your home. So, here's what I'm thinking. I've got three of these suckers that I need to organize here. This is my piece that is 11 in wide, which is about an inch wider than my largest pot holder here or lid. Uh, this is 24 in long. You can do whatever size you want based on your doors. The approach I'm going to take here is I ripped a couple of strips that are 1 in deep. If your lids do have a hump, you might consider making them maybe an inch and a half, two inches max. Don't go more than that. You probably don't need it. And then I got a couple of pieces that are ripped for the placeholders. Now, I'm going to be able to stack these suckers nuts to butts on this just to utilize as much space as we possibly can. We're going to place these down the middle. And you're probably thinking, "Well, how are you going to get this out?" I got just the idea. Now, I do want to be able to get these lids out of here. So, what we'll be doing is creating a concave concave opposite of convex. Still got it circle around this. So, basically a radius that you can take the lid out. But in case you do have those lids that do have that dome on there, you'll be able to flip that little concave cut that you'll make and it will sit and hug the pot lid tightly and it'll prevent it from rolling side to side in the event that you open the doors or close the doors or there's an unforeseen earthquake. So, first order of business, let's trace these suckers out and cut them with a jigsaw. Bye-bye. [Music] Update. Little change of design plan here. I made these radiuses way larger just because I could fit any kind of pan or pot lid that could possibly go that way. You don't have to go like, "Oh, the small one goes here." No, it be universal. So, I made them nice and wide. Also, this width matches the thickness of my 1/2-in plywood. So, I think it's a little bit cleaner look. Now, what I'm going to do a little bit different right now is instead of edgebanding the snot out of this just like I did on the last two DIY storage solutions, I think I'm going to try to round over the edges here. It'll make it a little more approachable for you to try it at home and it'll create a different kind of look that I don't know, I'll experiment with and it looks like dog crap, then don't do it. That's [Music] family. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Bye-bye. Not going to toot my own horn here, but I really dig this whole round over edge thing. I mean, I I agree. Edge banding is so much cleaner, but rounded over plywood. I'll be honest with you, I dig it. I really do. But now that it's all finally sanded, wood filled, and all that fun stuff, let's hit it on some clear coat, and then we'll go [Music] [Applause] install. Now, remember, this is strictly for example purposes. Most of my cabinets down below again are mostly all drawers, not doors. But if you have doors down below, this solution would be perfect for a cabinet right next to your stove. Let's move on to the next one. For our fourth DIY kitchen storage solution, we have the Tupperware stuff. If you're somebody like me who has OCD, this is extremely annoying cuz the only form of organization is just stacking the Tupperware that's similar size. However, what do you do with all of that? Well, I have the perfect solution. I'll restore order to this Tupperware drawer. Let me show you. I cut off a little bit of the plywood from the initial 4x8 sheet and I ripped them down into 7in tall sections. Nothing is to size specific whatsoever. But what I'm thinking is we build this thing to be a framed out version of the inside of the drawer. Literally a 16th of an inch less. Then we're going to create dividers down the middle for all the Tupperware different sizes and all that jazz. But then we're going to have another section of dividers for all the lids and all that awkward kind of stuff. Now, I want it to be super adaptable. So, what that means is the back and front and this section, they're all going to have slots. And the way we're going to create the slots is the concept called dado cuts. So, in order to create these dado cuts, we're going to use a stack of these dos to create that 3/4 in thickness and maybe even a 16th more. That way, the pieces can slide in and out easily without you having to, you know, get your vice. Now, the most complicated part about this section is to really pay attention that our dado cuts run in a way that it matches it 100% as a mirror on the opposite side where the piece will be joined together. In order to do this process, I'm literally going to handle two pieces at a time to make sure that we're spacing them all correctly. And I'm thinking to make things easier, we'll probably space them out about a solid inch apart from each other. That means it's going to be a crap ton of potatoes. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] A few moments later, here we are. We got everything in place. This is as module as I can get. Here's what we're going to do. Either pocket holes, which I don't think it's going to work cuz it's going to cut through this. So, I think the best option is wood glue, brad nails should be plenty enough. But the most important part, we got to make sure this thing's square. And to do that, you could either get a well, I'll show you some kind of square jig that you can clamp into place while you're attaching it or do the old corner to corner measurement. It should be the exact same number and then you know you're in good [Music] hands. Well, I don't want to do this, but I have to or else I'm not going to be happy with myself. Uh I have to edgeband all this. But what that also means is I'm going to have to cut out every single notch. Now, if it was me, if it was the Alex maybe about an hour ago, I would have probably edgeband this and then did my data cuts. But hey, we're dealing with a different Alex right now and he has to learn his lesson. I'm going to get carpal this [Music] Starting to regret making the series. We're almost there. Going to hit it with some clear coat. This almost took my hands. I mean, that must be like a hundred little slots I have to sand. But we're almost there. Hit it with some clear coat. Install it. And then we'll do the fifth and final kitchen storageing Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] For our fifth and final DIY kitchen storage solution, we're going to take care of this mess that's right below all of the shelving in our pantry. And I got just the idea. Check this out. As we know, most pantries or even in the kitchen, you can never have enough drawers, but also you can't have enough doors. But when it comes to the pantry, you have that's your catch all drawer. You got your bags of potatoes. You have your bags of rice. You have your cereal if you buy it in bulk and you're a complete lunatic. But I'm not here to judge. What's great about this one is that if you have shelves that's already pre-made in your pantry, you could just slide the sucker underneath. And what it is is a pull out drawer mechanism and you could stack it as high as you want. Some pantries they start, you know, shelving starts pretty high, some go all the way to the ground. But regardless, whatever system you have, this will work for it. I'm gonna go cut some wood and I'll show you what I mean. Don't you go nowhere. All right, here's what I'm thinking. This is going to be the pull out drawer underneath all the shelves. So, what we're going to do is we're going to match one of the profiles of the existing shelving units coming down. And that is a splinter. I'm alive. We're good. So, here's what we're going to do. We're going to save all the nonsense. We've done plenty of these skill sets already within this video. So, we got our data cut here. That's going to take our 1/4 in underllayment and that's going to be the bottom of our drawer. Sits nice and snug. Got pocket holes. They're going to be on the inside of the drawer and the back side of the drawer. So, if this is the face, you're not going to see it. And guess what? I already did. Edge band. Learned it from the previous project. Let me assemble it real quick. Wood glue, pocket screws, and get back in [Music] business. All right. All right. All right. So, we got our drawer. This is nice and beefy. My hopes for it is we're going to use it for like I don't know, bags of potatoes, maybe rice, all the other cool stuff. Uh I already got my uh support unit, I guess you could call it, or the cabinet. So edge banded on three sides, on the sides you can see. And we're essentially just going to put it up like this. 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