My kitchen is tiny. I’m not complaining. It could be worse. My first apartment didn’t even have a kitchen, just a toaster oven on a counter. 🙂 Back when I was house shopping for my first home, I really, really wanted to find something with a somewhat spacious kitchen.
Turns out that a spacious kitchen didn’t really fit in my budget. I still love my house and my little kitchen though! The lack of space has pushed me to try and find more creative ways to manage my growing collection of kitchen stuff.
My house does not have a pantry, only a few kitchen shelves to fit all my non refrigerated goods. I decided that if I found a new place to house my pots and pans then I could free up more cabinet space for groceries. I decided to create a pegboard since I have always loved Julia Child’s. Here’s what I did:
First, I bought two pegboards and five pieces of bracing wood that were the same length as the pegboard. I painted my pegboard and wood to match an accent wall in my living room. Keep in mind you don’t have to paint every side if you plan to secure it all directly into the wall.
Next, secure the wood into the wall. My dad helped me with this part. 🙂 You can see that we are basically creating a frame for each of the pegboards. Now screw the pegboards into their frames.
I used a white paint pen to to add outlines to each of the items I planned to hang. I did this by hanging them how I wanted, tracing the outside of each item (simplifying the shapes if needed) and then I drew over the tracing with a paint pen.
I’m not the best at drawing (I actually got a “C” in Drawing I in college) but I really like how it turned out. My brother said it looks like a pots and pans crime scene (think chalk outlines from CSI or something). Ha!
I love how my new pegboard turned out and I’m stoked about all the extra space it freed up in my kitchen cabinets. Yay! I’m easily excited, apparently. xo. Emma
I am surprised to see you use those manual crank mixers!
I would love if you could share the exact hook hardware you used.
I actually have a fairly large kitchen and lots of storage, but this idea is so cool and artsy. I’m going to do this in my kitchen also.
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Thank you for the idea! My space was too small for pegboards so I had so make something different but this made me do it!
This is a great idea that can be quite versatile. We have a good-sized kitchen but have a pegboard in the pantry. Really makes life simple. What I’m really Jonesing about is your awesome table! What a great idea! The legs are the same ones my mom had on her home-made table when I was a kid. The table then was a laminated door. Great minds think alike.
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Sarah- Yes, we made the table too. You can find it here: https://abeautifulmess.com/2012/08/wood-pallete-table-diy.html
But what about that kitchen table? Did you make it? It’s awesome, and is inspiring me to use the pallet in my garage!
Oh my heavens, those outlines make it SO cute!
i LOVE this. yours looks better than Julia’s 🙂
This turned out really great! Looks very decorative too.
I also always been crazy about Julia Child’s kitchen style and I just love this tutorial. I’m keeping this post on my liked one for the day that I will have a house!
Thanks,
olive xox
We have just moved to a bigger house but the kitchen is smaller, so this would be ideal.
Zoe
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Cute…..but is it hung crookedly..or is that just the photo angle?
This is such a great idea! Looks so charming and cute 🙂
That’s so useful and special! Now ground is so expensive and if the kitchen is so small, this is a good idea!
This is so awesome!!! I don’t have the wall space for it in my kitchen, but it would be perfect to have something like this in the garage to keep all my gardening tools organized. Such a cute & clever idea!
This idea is great!
Alexa Ivy-Sorry, yes it’s from IKEA. 🙂
I would totally need that outline to remind me where to put them after using them! Such a great idea emma 🙂
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