Easy $1 DIY Spice Racks!

Sooo... This week was a bit different... I'll get into to that later, but this is one of the projects I finished lately and wanted to share with you!  I made spice racks out of these!

They worked out perfect for my pantry! Seriously awesome and cheap!!

The week started out again with no church :( We got hit with quite a snow storm, but we wouldn't have been going anyway.  Poor sweet Hubby came down with a stomach virus that put him out of commission for a couple of days.  Good report is, he's doing much better and will be back to work tomorrow. :)

Back to the spice racks! I'm going to be a bit transparent.... don't judge me... Hey, this is the real deal here.

Yep... that's my "spice/cooking" shelf. It was a jumbled unorganized mess. One day, I just had it and needed to get that shelf into shape. Pronto!  I hated searching for spices. I had duplicates (that I didn't know about). There were ones that kinda looked the same and I would use the wrong spice in a recipe. Yeah, not fun!

I wanted a spice rack that I wouldn't have to clean.  I could have made one of those cute wooden ones, but they would eventually need to be cleaned and really... I'm just too lazy. So, I wanted a wire shelf, no cleaning! :) And more importantly, I didn't want to spend a boat load on one of those fancy smancy ones.

So, I kept searching through the Dollar Tree, just believing that I could find something there that would work.  They had these little wire baskets, but they were too shallow and the spices would've just fallen out, because I wanted to mount them on the pantry door.

In my search, I found those cooling racks, and made them into DIY Spice Racks! It only cost $3 for all of them!

I knew those cooling racks would work! Hubby didn't think they would, that it would break the weld. But heck for $1 I'm willing to try it!  And I'm happy to say that it worked!  Yeah, a couple of the welds didn't hold, but they work just fine!

Here's how I did it.

Bend the little legs flat as possible.

It will look like this.

Then bend up the one side at the 4th wire. I used needle nose pliers to bend it.

Then skip one wire and bend the other side up.

I used this method for the smaller spice containers.  The larger ones, I made them wider at the bottom by skipping 2 wires and then bending up the other side.  It works great! You can see in the next picture.

Now the sides, aren't too fancy.  I racked my brain trying to find a workable solution for the sides from twine to wire.  I had this woven type of ribbon and just glued the ends together with my glue gun.

Hey, it works! And you can see how I put them on the pantry door.  I measured and hung them with screws that had a large head on them. After they were hung, I tightened the screw to hold in place. Pretty simple.

They don't bang around when I open the door and none have fallen.  I can find all of my spices sooo easy and they are organized so I don't use the wrong one... :P

Sweet!!

And now look at my pantry shelf..... I even labeled some of my flat container spices. Love it!!

Blessings,