Tell me about your favorite cabinet insert or storage solution
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Keeping the garden watered...what are your favorite solutions?
Comments (33)I didn't think it would be a good idea, like you said, to run it under or over the sidewalk, bad enough to run a hose across it for the soaker hose my neighbor loaned me last year and this. But it's so long, it has 3 turns and having to lift it in and out to hoe (I will mulch when I get to it), is almost more than I can bear. It's heavy and drags across plants to move so last year I never weeded except a few by hand, but with tomatoes in cages, it wasn't too bad. The soaker worked great for tomatoes in neat rows but is not going to work well for tiny plants and roses scattered more randomly. My roses are one long row but the companion plants are scattered. Do you know what I really wish? I wish I had an old-fashioned pump and a cistern to collect all this water. That is not feasible but it would sure bring back memories, and I would love doing it. My grandmother couldn't have watered much of anything except her African violets inside, and things grew ok for her. She didn't mulch either, just probably did a little hoeing and had boards to walk on to get down the rows of what she had planted. She had a long perennial bed with shrubs and spring bulbs but no roses that I can remember. If I get fed up enough this summer and depending on my health, I can have a guy come and install a faucet on the other side of the back sidewalk (front is a 'nuther animal but could have another one in the basement going through another outside wall on the other side of the sidewalk). Then I could irrigate all of it. I will remember Drip Works, usually think long and hard before making such a change especially in light of expensive repairs I need done, can afford some of it but not all at once and hard to prioritize. Irrigation would not be that expensive if I do it myself but takes thinking, planning and time. I really really want my arbor put back up, right this time, heard a jackhammer going at the neighbor's, was hoping they could come here when done and blast out four concrete footings so we can start over. No such luck. Of course I would have paid a reasonable amount. It was a fence company and I saw they had augurs of different sizes in the truck. That would be so nice, that arbor was a dream come true, and it's all come to nothing for now, my son and the neighbor down the street think vandals knocked it over but it wasn't installed right, I knew it, and was frantically trying to find out how I could anchor it better, didn't make it in time, actually paid another guy to try to screw it in the footings using a masonry drill. That failed, too. My son is good at things but so busy. It is thundering and raining again . . .so far just a shower. The beds that aren't mulched yet dried out already after that record downpour, probably damp deeper down. I will mulch but want all my seedlings in and big enough so I can see where to put it all without ruining some plus I want to hoe first. I can neaten up the edges later....See MorePlease tell me your opinion about my layout
Comments (16)Added to what others have said... the corner in the lower right is going to feel like a cave with the tall fridge so close to it, and the wall cabinet will be mostly out of reach unless you're quite tall. I agree that losing the corner cabs and the bottom of the U and making this be a galley kitchen might be a better option. Questions: Are you wedded to the idea of the tall pantry cabinet? It would be much easier to juggle appliances if it could be a normal base + wall. I know you have a shortage of storage here but the tall cab may not be the best way to solve the problem. How many people in the household, and how many cooks at once? If you only have 2 people you might be able to fit a small semi-circular table (even a dropleaf) against that big window at the top of the plan, with stools that slip underneath when not in use. As a previous poster said, a standard 30" wide table just isn't going to fit. Then again, with only 2 people, why such a big fridge? Consider dropping down in size even as far as an apartment size fridge. I would try losing the cabinetry at the bottom of the U, then on the left wall, left to right, have counter/sink/counter/fridge: on the right wall, left to right: counter/range-oven/counter. All counter sections could have wall cabinets above them. You could have a large counter area one side or other of the range, and a short setdown section the other side. You'd even have your sink under a window. Dishwasher left or right of the sink, as desired. On the wall around the window at the bottom of the plan, there could be narrow storage like spice racks, pot lid racks, or pegboard for holding all kinds of stuff. The arrangement I just described is very similar to an 8' x 8' kitchen I lived with for 13 years, including cooking a sitdown meal for 18 people, and lots of baking and family cooking. It works best for 1 cook but you can fit 2 in if you're friendly :)...See MoreLargish Pantry Design - Please Show Me Your Favorite Ideas
Comments (15)Buehl, thanks so much for the link to the pantry thread. I'd read before, but forgotten about. I read with pleasure again this morning. Loved seeing your pantry again - the 15" shelves look perfect. nancyjwb - Thank you too. I had not seen those. eam - But the pricey inserts will be half the fun :) I do love gadgets. All I'll be storing in here are canned, dry goods, cereal, soda and the like. I've always like the apothecary/multiple drawers look. Here's a first stab. If I place this in the space between the two walls, I have 52.5 inches. Here's something that size, with three 48" wide lower drawers, and two upper doors. This breaks down to a face frame, three drawer fronts, two doors. Lighted top. Handy DH:) Doors and drawers would open with 'Tip-On' - press to open. It could be black with ORB handles on every square... This design takes it from floor to 8' ceiling, without a lot of room for trim work. Regarding storage, I spent some time on the Blum website this morning and am considering their Legrabox drawers. I can add an interior rollout and an inner drawer, and fit ~50 cans laying horizontally (so I can see labels) like this, per layer/drawer, for a total of 100 cans in a 12" tall/48" wide drawer:) Thoughts/comments? Please be frank; my feelings won't be hurt....See MoreYour best storage solution?
Comments (57)@MaryBocaTX When I first did this, I bought 60 empty spice jars from Penzey's — 48 of their 1/2 cup A jars and 12 of their 1 cup C jars (which fit the bigger holes on the right and are used for the spices we got through a lot of) and then filled them individually with spices purchased in bulk (mostly in bags) also from Penzey's. This did mean that I had a box with a bunch of overflow spices I kept in our storage room in the basement — I'd use the extra spices there to refill the individual spice jars when they got low. You can buy the empty spice jars here: https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/empty-jars/c-24/p-1616/pd-s However, conveniently the 1/2 cup A jars are the same ones you get when you order individual spices in 1/2 cup jars from Penzey's, so when I recently replaced a bunch of aging spices that were losing a bit of potency, this time I just ordered them in the 1/2 cup jars to start and swapped out the jars entirely — this is definitely easier than filling empty jars. And this also means that the spices come with the correct shaker top. So, if I were to do this from scratch, I'd settle on the 1/2 cup jar size from Penzey's as being your base jar size, order all the spices you want from them in that size and just put colored labels on top of those already full jars, And then I'd order a handful of empty jars for spices that you already have or are getting from other sources....See Moreplllog
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