My kitchen is badly in need of extra storage space. As you can see below,
my housekeeper and I have managed to fill every available built-in nook
and cranny, and there's still not enough room for everything. So while
the correct final solution is a pantry, I've fixed it a little bit
by adding more shelving space. Unlike the
bookshelf in the guest bedroom I've
built this one entirely myself (the decorative braces in the bedroom came
from home depot). See below for a quick and easy shelf :)
My kitchen, after Liz (my housekeeper) finished with it. Everything along
the top of the shelves is most of my kitchen applianes. The stuff on the
lone cabinet is my charger and batteries for my tools :)
I cut this beautiful circle out of a 12"x1" board using my new rotzip-ish
tool, which is basically a handheld battery-powered router. It also comes
with an attachment for keeping the tool in a circular pattern :) After
the circle was cut, I used the miter saw to cut it into quarters (that
was a job for a table saw, but I don't have one yet).
And how to hold the shelf to the wall? Well, the rotozip tool (btw, it's
not a real rotozip - it's a "rotary tool") can take regular router bits
as well as the smaller bit I used for cutting the circle, so I stuck a
keyhole bit in it and went to work. The beauty of a keyhole bit is that
it's wider at the top than the bottom, so that you can put a screw into
the hole it cuts at one end and the head of the screw can't fit out on
the other end.
The famed keyhole bit, and the rotary tool (spinning at 26,000 RPMs, vs.
my regular router which spins at 25,00 RPMs or a real plug-in rotozip
which (I believe, but have not verified) spins at 30,000 RPMs)
And the finished product. Not completley finished; it needs sanding and
staining, but I've loaned out my random orbit sander and ahven't
retrieved it yet.
