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 you 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 (simplifing 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 tured out. My brother said it looks like a pots and pans crime scene (think chalk outlines from CSI or something). Ha!
Love how my new pegboard turned out and I'm stoked about all the extra space it freed up in my kitcen cabinets. Yay! I'm easily excited, apparently. xo. Emma
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How cute!!! I wish I had the space for this!!! =)
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This is so awesome! Thanks so much. I am definitely doing this. My boyfriend needs a better layout for when he’s cooking for me 😉
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Such a good use of space and a cute display… this is a great DIY! Thanks 🙂
I love all your projects that include “Dad helped”! This is so you, Emma…..your artwork IS your cooking! Very clever!
we need a picture of you ad dad! we only ever see his back!
That’s super cute! I’d love to have one in a fun colour like, pink or mint green. 🙂
-Lindsey
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It does look like a kitchen crime scene 😀
Where did you find the metal hangers ?
this is awesome! i’ve got a teeny tiny kitchen too. thanks for the inspiration.
I love this…especially the tracing. I have a serious storage issue in my kitchen. Hmmm…
My apartment has this freaky mirror above the kitchen sing. I was going to put a corkboard over it, but this seems so much cooler. Thank you for sharing Emma!
I love hanging pots and pans!
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That’s awesome! I’m definitely taking notes!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sigh. I so wish I had the wall space for something like this! Very cute!
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Oh, I’m totally doing this, TONIGHT!
Hi Elsie and Emma,
I just want to thank you guys for all the work you put into your blog. It’s great fun to read and the ideas are amazing 😉 Keep it up <3
Super cute! My new apartment has very little kitchen space (we had to get a cart to host our microwave and about half the pantry items) so we’ve been very inventive as well.
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I love how you made the pots and pans into artwork! Two purposes: my favorite <3
I was actually going to email you guys with this DIY a couple of days ago, but it wasn’t quite polished enough! Haha, that’s awesome. Great minds think alike! My husband and I own a rowhome in Roebling, NJ (quirky, tiny old steel mill town in NJ. Our house was built in 1909.) The kitchen is small and poorly set up. We have an OK amount of cabinets but it’s a galley-like set-up (all counter and appliance on one wall, and narrow.) No pantry or anything, and no room for open shelving with the current layout. I use two of these pegboards; one on the kitchen wall, and one that hangs inside of a closet door just outside of the kitchen. For the one inside of the closet, I actually use pegs that stick out a bit more so I can hang more than one pan or pot from a single hook. For the one on the kitchen wall, it’s more like your set up. It looks less cluttered that way.
Anyway, awesome DIY! I love the black with the white outline. Man, I love his website.
reminds me of Julia Child’s kitchen pegboard! 🙂
I didn’t know Julia Child’s had a peg board. This is a really great idea for a small kitchen! I love the outlines kitchen CSI indeed lol
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This is so creative! It looks very cute. Well done.
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Oh! And if you have spatulas/spoons/other utensils that don’t have holes on the handles, a plier hook works really well!
Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Plier-Holder-Pegboard-Hook-Us2C/dp/B000KL27A0/ref=lh_ni_t
Or something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Hardware-819595-Pegboard-Multiple/dp/B000KL08OM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I Love this! And I especially love the table- such a unique piece!
xx Kait
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Fun!
This is something worthy of excitement! What an awesome way to free up cabinet space and make a focal point too.
Catherine Denton
This is a super cute idea. And I love your table!
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Hahaha, I just saw the last picture in this post on Pinterest and thought, WOW that pallet table looks just like Emma’s! I love the new pegboard, it’s really cute!
This is amazing and so cute! Good job!!
I love this DIY! You’re really creative! I really love the outline you added! Definitely adds a quirky touch 😀
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Oh I love it. I have a small kitchen too!
what a lovely idea!
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Inspiring post xx
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This is so being done in my house when I get older.
This blog is wonderful and I love looking through your posts!
love the outlines!
We put one of these up in our kitchen and we love how accessible all our pots and pans are. We use baskets hung on the board to hold miscellaneous items such as the citrus zester and garlic press and use magnets to hold our knives onto it. Love the black!
So cute that you Dad is your helper & even let’s you take photos! I love this idea for my craft shanty!! Bonus is there is already a pegboard up so now I just need to paint and do body chalk lines…lol crime scene that’s funny. Thanks Emma!!
This is ridiculously awesome! It so aesthetically pleasing and I bet you have a ton of free space! I definitely want to try it myself!
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While I am not partial to the white outlines, I like the concept and the color. This would be great in my little kitchen.
love this! we put together one for our last apartment because there was so little storage – we spray painted it a deep red that matched a lot of our appliances and so many people asked if it was pottery barn or martha stewart when really it was $15 worth of supplies from lowes 🙂
that looks awesome! totally inspired for my mini-kitchen 😉
This is lovely, I wish I could do something like this but my kitchen is literally the size of a shoe box!
Your table is gorgeous also, did you make it or buy it?
You are seriously like the most creative people on the planet. Always blowing me away. LOVE this.
The outline is really inspiring, love it so much… very cute, thanks for sharing 😀
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I love this idea! Thanks for sharing.
Super cute and useful!
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Brianna,
Hi! Emma’s table is homemade. You can see the instructions here- https://abeautifulmess.com/2012/08/wood-pallete-table-diy.html
XOXO!
This is such a cool idea!
I have a friend who uses this idea in the garage for the tool. A good idea to do this för the “kitchen tools” 🙂
That is astinkingdorable!!
Oh I just love this! My first apartment was SO tiny that I got pegboards and used them for my office/crafting supplies. I definitely dig this and I really like the white outlines! I thought the same thing about the crime scene but I love!
Gah! I love this one so much I’m compelled to comment and tell you so.
that’s a great idea 😉
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Pinning it for future renovation. My kitchen is also petite, but I love it 🙂
Love this! But what did you use the actually hang the pans? Just simple hooks?
Did you purchase or make the cool white chandelier thing above your table!? If you made it, I’d like to see thaaaaat DIY. I want one of those things in MY room!!
Tessa Lynn
What a lovely idea! 🙂
Jasmin
This really is a wonderful idea. My boyfriend and I just recently moved into our new apartment and out kitchen is tiny. We can barely fit in there together but we have so many cupboards and shelves, somehow everything has its place without the kitchen looking too crammed.
Amazing !!
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this is great! everything has its own place!
I love it!! Simply lovely and so clever! 🙂
what a fabulous idea! wish i would of had this idea in some of the spaces i lived before my house. i had some tiny kitchens. in our home our kitchen is by no means large…but it doesn’t have a full wall either. haha. also…i love your kitchen table!
This is super cute. When I was growing up, my Mother had something like this, only her’s was antique kitchen gadgets.
I love the idea of combining practicality with art. 🙂
Love this so much!! So creative! xxx
this looks amazing! x
i just got that same dandelion light for my room! i love this idea for the peg board! very cool.
I’ve wanted to do this for a while now but I’m having trouble finding a big enough space to actually place the pegboard. Small kitchens!
Great idea!!
-Alison
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Really creative! Great DIY!!! 🙂
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Such a cute idea 🙂 x
What a great idea! First time to these pages, and I’m sure it wont be my last 🙂
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How cute, easy, cheap and green idea is that! 😀
And if Julia Child’s had one, I think I most have one like that in my home!
Kisses
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Oh my god, I love this! We’ve been racking our brains trying to figure out how we’re going to deal with our exploding kitchen-ware, and now I have something to suggest. Finally! Thank you =]
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I really like that idea to see all and If I need something.. It is great. Have a nice day.
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This is a great idea. I also have a tiny kitchen — I love any freeing up space ideas! 😀
Good idea! I need to figure out some way of improving storage in my own kitchen but I’m reluctant to hang things on the wall because next door’s washing machine is a bit… eh… over-enthusiastic…
I did the same thing with my kitchen. Gotta love Julia Child inspired stuff!
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I have that same dandilion light fixture hagging in my bedroom! How cool! Did you get it from IKEA?
CELIAROSE
Cool idea! 🙂
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We just made one of these in my kitchen & I love everything but the hardware/hooks. They are way too short & sometimes fall out when I pull a pot off the board. Do you like your hooks? Where did you get them?
Cara- Mine are not really hooks. They look more like little posts that stick straight out of the pegboard. I got them at Lowe’s. I described my project to an employee and that’s what they recommended. So far so good. 🙂
for small space living this is such a great idea. I believe my husband and I are the owners of the world’s tiniest kitchen (at least stateside) and it’s a great meld of style & function.
omg thank you so much, I have a small kitchen and i´m always looking for ideas to make some space and I love this Idea 😀
Gorgeous! I do have a question about the hanging light fixture above your pallet table. Did I miss a blog post on how to make this or?
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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Alexa Ivy-Sorry, yes it’s from IKEA. 🙂
This idea is great!
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!
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 such a great idea! Looks so charming and cute 🙂
Cute…..but is it hung crookedly..or is that just the photo angle?
We have just moved to a bigger house but the kitchen is smaller, so this would be ideal.
Zoe
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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
This turned out really great! Looks very decorative too.
i LOVE this. yours looks better than Julia’s 🙂
Oh my heavens, those outlines make it SO cute!
But what about that kitchen table? Did you make it? It’s awesome, and is inspiring me to use the pallet in my garage!
Sarah- Yes, we made the table too. You can find it here: https://abeautifulmess.com/2012/08/wood-pallete-table-diy.html
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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.
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!
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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.
I am surprised to see you use those manual crank mixers!
I would love if you could share the exact hook hardware you used.