FarmBoy and I had lots of fun designing (mostly me) and building (mostly him) this system for storing our canned foods. We needed some inexpensive way to provide storage in the skinny place behind the two doors of our pantry. (The door you see in the photo below leads to the garage, and the door into the house is opposite.) I stewed for some time on what to do, until one day I jumped up, grabbed a can of beans, and set them, sideways, on the drapery rod above the kitchen sliding glass door. I realized then that what I needed was sort of a wall of parallel drapery rods. FarmBoy and I headed off to the hardware store without really knowing what we would ultimately use for the project. What we ended up with were conduit rods, which are ten feet long (he sawed them to fit) and these large hooks that you see , which he screwed into the wall studs, a couple of inches deep.The wall holds over a hundred cans now, and the project cost less than fifty dollars to make. It's been up for a couple of years and so far, so good.
4 comments:
you guys rock. a good team for sure!
Great idea! What size hooks did you use?
Trying to do this in my kitchen.
I am sorry that I can't give you a specific size. We just checked the bins at the hardware store for the biggest hooks we could find. They went several inches into the walk, as I remember.
Good luck to you!
I am sorry that I can't give you a specific size. We just checked the bins at the hardware store for the biggest hooks we could find. They went several inches into the walk, as I remember.
Good luck to you!
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