My daughter and I are working on her rental kitchen making it cuter and much more efficient.

If you are new, let me catch you up real quick. I purchased a new rental property from my parents and my daughter is currently living there. So, while it is my house and some of the things we are doing to improve it are permanent (like new floors), many of the updates we are doing are renter-friendly so when she moves out and I want to rent to someone else, the things we've done are easily reversible.

The house is just barely over 1,000 square feet, but the kitchen is quite large so there is room for some things to make it function a little better for her. Check out the tour here: New Rental House Tour.

I recently found two old drawers on the curb with a free sign on them and while I didn't have an idea in mind when I picked them up, it didn't take long before this idea popped into my head.

DIY Rolling Spice Rack from Curbside Finds

The only thing we purchased new for this DIY spice rack was the little wheels. Everything else was either found (the drawers) or something we had already.

I made a video showing how we made it.

I made a smaller one from scratch for my own kitchen. You can see it in this post: Storage Ideas for Small Kitchens.

These drawers are vintage and I actually thought they were pretty cute. There are lots of other things you can make with old drawers, I've linked a few ideas at the end.

To make this rolling spice rack with the curbside drawers, the first step was to clean them up! I used Lysol with bleach. (I apologize for the bad pictures, they are taken from the video so the quality is lacking. Be sure to watch the video for the full project 😉)

I stacked one on top of the other and attached them with screws. The shelves are made with a board that we found in the house and screwed in from the sides.

We filled all the holes and painted the whole thing with leftover paint. We used green from the kitchen island we have been working on and Navajo White from the upstairs loft bedroom.

The handle is a leftover from the new hardware we added to the kitchen cupboards.

Here it is all finished!

This is what this side of the kitchen looked like before.

And here is what it looks like now.

I also made a shelf that fits over the top of the stove. It's made with 2x4 legs and a 1x6 across the top. The leg on the right sits on the counter and the one on the left goes all the way to the floor. 

The top sits against the wall which makes the top of the stove useful (things won't fall behind now) and makes it look more built-in and finished.

We also replaced the dated pot rack with a DIY copper one, I'll share that project soon and we've got lots more projects in store for this kitchen so stay tuned!

I hope you enjoyed this post and got some ideas for your own kitchen. If you did, you may also like these ideas for old drawers:

How to Make a Planter From an Old Drawer

Repurposed Drawer Shelves

How to Make a Footstool From an Old Drawer

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