Kitchen Drawer Organizers

Anyone familiar with Ana White?  She is fabulous.  She designs and builds furniture and then puts the plans on her blog.  Look at her work - she's my hero.  I decided I really wanted to learn woodworking so I got started with a simple plan - something I needed anyway.  Her wood drawer organizers were the perfect solution!  I decided to do both my top drawer (the regular eating utensil drawer) and my second drawer, which holds some cooking tools of mine.  I drew up the plans for both of the drawers and then went shopping.

Here are the plans I drew up.

It came out that I was going to need around 15ish feet total for both drawers so I went to Lowe's and picked up 2 1x3s (they generally sell in 8 foot lengths).  I gave my husband the list of lengths I needed for each drawer side and he cut the wood for me.  I then sanded each piece, which was not fun when you have tiny hands and the palm sander is much larger than your palm.  Sanding is definitely necessary though - it gets rid of rough edges or anything that might splinter in the future.  Plus, it looks much nicer.

Unsanded vs. Sanded

I used a countersink drill bit and screwed the pieces together, then I filled the holes with wood filler and used a stain/poly combination by Minwax to seal the wood.  Then, I screwed the whole thing inside the drawer.  I love them and am excited to start my next project!

Cooking tools drawer organizer

Cooking tools drawer organizer with the tools

Utensil drawer divider

Ready for silverware!

Ready to go!