Reader laura sent us a wonderful easy and cheap kitchen project she just completed.
How to make a knife block for a drawer. Considering i did not bring my drill with me this was not going to work. Some people buy them one by one and when not in use the knives jangle inside a drawer getting dull and nicked. They keep your family safe from dangerous kitchen tools and keep your knives safe from nicks and improper use. This easy to execute hack gives you a custom organizer for your cutlery drawer on the cheap.
The block is made from oak and filled with skewers. Knife drawer organizers are either moderately priced and not custom or custom made and expensive. A custom knife block for a kitchen drawer. The skewers i got are from bamboo the knife block holds around 8 kitchen.
A knife block sprayed with black chalkboard paint looks playful and chic and its chalkability could be useful for keeping blades labeled and organized. Sigh i had seen in the past a universal knife block that used thousands of tiny rods and decided to make my own. Knives can be stored on the counter in a decorative wood block in a drawer with custom divided knife slots or secured on a wall mounted block that keeps your counter free. Storing kitchen knives is a perpetual problem.
Another issue is that in my kitchen and many in china there are no drawers to use some sort of insert. But when my kids were younger i too was hesitant to keep them in a drawer. The ikea model she wanted was discontinued and others were too expensive for her budget. Dans le townhouse blog spot ca smile style.
Other people store an enormous set of nine or ten kitchen knives six steak knives scissors and a sharpening steel in a huge angled knife block on the countertop. Mark the spacing on the wood block then run through a table saw to make grooves 3 4 of the way through. If using wood strips nail from the underside leaving a 1 8 inch space between strips. We kept the knives sharp side down and it was nicer looking smaller and easier to hide on the counters than the giant knife block.
Instead of a knife block i used a round utensil holder like what you would put your spatulas in on the countertop. Knife blocks knife blocks are more than just decorative.