Thursday, August 11, 2011

Spice Up Your Life

Spice Girls Anyone? Know who is better than the Spice Girls, Alton Brown host of the show Good Eats. I actually hate the show but Talon LOVES it. And I love the fact that after Talon watches the show he cooks uber delicious meals like this Shrimp and Grits recipe. O.M.G. Heaven in your mouth good. Therefore, we love Alton Brown.There has been a lot more cooking action in the kitchen at our house lately. We've always cooked at home...the recipes are just starting to get a little more difficult. I've found all these great recipes on Pinterest that I've been trying {see my food board here} and Talon's recent love for the show Good Eats and ol' Alton himself our spices were taking over our kitchen. So, this past Sunday Talon remedied the problem by building a giant spice storage rack on the back of our pantry door. I do not know all the dirty details of how he did it. I do know he went to Home Depot and about 8 hours later we had storage for all of our spices. Hoo-Rah. Here's a ton of pictures to help give you the idea of how it was done....The height of each shelf was determined by spices, vinegars, etc that we already had...Wooden dowels were used to keep the goodies from falling off of the shelf... Little helper...Filling nail holes to get ready to sand...Then a few coats of white paint to finish it off...TA-DA....It's so functional and has emptied up a ton of cabinet space.The shelves are bigger on the bottom for taller items...
Good job Tal! So happy to have a place to store all those spices and that they are all easy to see and grab when Talon's making me super scrumptious meals:)

28 comments:

  1. Wow, that is amazing! It looks so professional. I hung a wire one in my pantry, but yours is so pretty and custom. Love.

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  2. That is a fabulous spice rack - I'm so jealous! (And the little helper is pretty stinkin' cute!)

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  3. This is a wonderful project! I'm jealous! Thanks for linking to Wicked Awesome Wednesday!

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  4. that was an awesome project and storage solution!

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  5. This is so impressive. I would love to get the cabinet space back from all of those darn spice bottles! Thanks for sharing. I'd love for you to stop by www.laughloveandcraft.com and link up to my Share the Wealth Wednesday Link Party!

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  6. Makes me wish I had a pantry door! :) I could adapt this to a much smaller scale for the back of a cupboard door. Love this idea!

    Visiting from SYS (somewhat simple).

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  7. Great job, Mr Woods, fine craftsmanship. What woman wouldn't love that in her kitchen!

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  8. I love this idea. I have all my spices on a shelf in my pantry and it's so hard to find anything. I can even see doing one of these with deeper shelves to store cans. Thanks for posting. I found you at Somewhat Simple.
    Krista
    krista-artista.blogspot.com

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  9. What a great idea! I think we could all use some extra space. And I know we all want something as nice as this. Great job!

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  10. WOW, that is so cool! What a great idea!

    Kimberly @ The Brown Eyes Have It

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  11. This is exactly what I need for my kitchen! Good job!

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  12. How awesome.. I love it...I'm following ya officially from Motivate Me Monday At Keeping It Simple.. Lovely blog you have here.Can't wait to read more.. Hope you can stop by & visit me sometime / follow back.. TY So much.. Have a great week.Marilyn from http://theartsygirlconnection.blogspot.com

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  13. THAT is truly AMAZING! A custom built spice rack for your door - I would LOVE one of those! What a talented man you have!

    Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
    Hope you have a great week!
    Jill @ Creating my way to Success
    http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/

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  14. Wow wow WOW!! What woman wouldn't love THIS in her pantry!?

    Deborah (visiting from
    http://upcyclingmylife.blogspot.com)

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  15. That's a great storage solution in your home. good idea! nice one!^_^

    storage sydney

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  16. Love it so much I featured you at my weekly Hookin Up with HoH party!

    Feel free to stop by and grab a button if you'd like!

    xoxo

    Allison @ House of Hepworths

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  17. LOVE THIS!! What a fabulous idea... love the custom build. Time to break out the tools...

    Missy & Kimi
    http://ificould-ificould.blogspot.com

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  18. I saw this idea on the DIY network the other day, but and I LOVED it, because after recently getting married it is hard to find space to put all of our new goodies and our spices and everything. I am def. going to be doing this, well me and hubs! Also noticed that you were from the Atlanta area! Love it! I am a new blogger but live about 45 minutes outside of Atlanta, I love your blog and am a new follower! I am going to try to attend Bloggy Bootcamp in October in Atlanta, if you aren't going you should think about it! I'd love to meet other bloggy friends in the Atlanta area!

    Kelli@ www.theinspiredcollection.blogspot.com

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  19. Great! very organize.
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  20. I love this! So cool! I want to do it at my house! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. Grab my "featured" button.

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  21. I love love love this! Pinning this idea immediately ;-) I was wondering--can you answer the question of how the rack is attached to the existing door?

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    1. Korrie -- The spice rack is attached to the door via pocket screws. Hope this helps!!

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  22. Cool idea. I am going to pin this!

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  23. I love this idea. I'm wondering though, is your pantry door solid? I'm just worried about hanging anything of weight on my door that is mostly hollow.

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