Ceiling Racks a Great Space Saver in a Small Home

Today, Jakob Barry guest posts about how ceil­ing racks can help save space in a small kitchen:

When the house I grew up in was going to be sold, I was one of the lucky ones who got to clean it out. Among the things that were given to me were a bunch of good qual­ity pots and pans, the kind made to last a life­time. In a way they already had lasted a good forty years, so I’ll call it two lifetimes!

After pack­ing and ship­ping my new belong­ings, the boxes arrived and sat around in my liv­ing room for a while till I could fig­ure out what to do with them. It wasn’t that there were so many, but my kitchen in the small home I was liv­ing in couldn’t han­dle the overload.

I prob­a­bly could have stuffed a few here and there but I gen­er­ally like to have the abode in rea­son­able shape, which means as lit­tle clut­ter and extra tchotchkes lying around as possible.

I searched for all kinds of solu­tions until a friend sug­gested I was over­look­ing the obvi­ous to ease my predica­ment: a kitchen ceil­ing rack.

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