Indeed My Heritage: Updating My Organized Kitchen Drawers

Monday, June 16, 2014

Updating My Organized Kitchen Drawers

Remember last year when I made my own drawer organizers for two of my kitchen drawers? (And if you haven't read that post, it's the place to start if you want to build inexpensive drawer organizers!)

Well, after a year or so, the silverware drawer looked like this:

The weight of the silverware caused the bottom of the drawer to bow, which then created a gap between my organizer and the drawer bottom, which then caused the silverware to creep around the drawer. Ugh. Dearest hubby attempted to glue the organizer right to the bottom of the drawer, but as you can see in the above image, that didn't hold. After thinking a bit, I decided I would try to use the weight of the silverware to my advantage--and it worked! (Which is why I'm posting this, lol!)

We pulled the drawer out, and removed the entire organizer. I traced the middle sections of the organizer onto the leftover sturdy board I had kept from this same project--meaning no extra cost, whew.

After tracing the openings onto the sturdy board, I sweet-talked Fernando into cutting the shapes out for me, and then I positioned each one in the bottom of its compartment then drew a bead of Elmer's Glue around the edges.

Below is what it looked like after all the sections were in. I ran out of sturdy board, so I decided that since most of the main silverware (forks, knives, spoons) were in those center sections, I'd leave the edges bare and see how that held up--which it's doing fine so far.

Once the glue around the insides was dry, I flipped over my organizer and drew beads of glue around the sections here:

It's always a good idea to let that glue dry thoroughly before using the organizer! So, the next day, we inserted the organizer back into the drawer, and I filled it up again. Can you see all the silverware and serving utensils there in the below image, upper left? I tried so hard to keep them organized the way I had them in the drawer!