Please show me the inside of your flatware drawer
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11 years agoOne of my favorite things. A large drawer (25" interior fitted with BBand B bamboo dividers) between dishwasher and table.
ginny20
11 years agoThis is mine. The interior measurement is 13 1/2". i chose wire mesh flatware baskets from BB&B because then I can just lift them out to clean the drawer, the crumbs and dust fall right through. It's also where we keep corkscrews, wine pump, and bottle tops.
mjocean
11 years ago
lolauren
11 years agoDH made the insert to my specs (wood is from HD or Lowes, just cut and assembled with brads.)
mjocean
11 years agomjocean
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11 years agobellsmom
11 years agoThis drawer and several others are fitted with the Lifestyle System dividers. Plastic strips (2'', 3'', or 4'' wide x 24'' long) are scored and snapped to length. Channeled holders are self adhesive. They do come off sometimes, and can be Gorilla glued if necessary.
Easy to lay out, infinitely customizable, very space efficient and easy to clean. I used graph paper cut to the drawer size, laid the utensils on the paper, marked where the dividers went, then laid the graph paper in the drawer and played score, snap, and stick.
This post was edited by Bellsmom on Wed, Feb 20, 13 at 14:08
mjocean
11 years agololauren
11 years agomjocean
11 years agobreezygirl
11 years agoMine won't inspire you. I bought the Lee Valley divider system last month during the sale, but it'll probably be months before I can get DH to install them. He moves like a slug on project completion, especially when he knows it's something I really want done. If I could find a pre-made divider system that fits in this shallow drawer, I would have just gone that route a year ago. Interior measures about 20" wide and 10.75" deep.
It's the drawer in my dish hutch here:
bellsmom
11 years agoThe flatware drawer is not the only one that benefits from dividers.
Here are a few of my other drawers with the Lifestyle System dividers. The flatware drawer dividers in my previous post are mostly 2'' high as is this one.
A composite drawer: wine, ice cream, and baking.
The next two use 4'' dividers.
A prep drawer:
Another prep drawer:
I really like the flexibility of these dividers.
This post was edited by Bellsmom on Wed, Feb 20, 13 at 17:41
texasgal47
11 years agozelmar
11 years agoOur silverware drawer is in our 36" wide pantry cabinet near our table. I bought our first real set of silverware during the reno but I wanted to hold on to all of the odd pieces we somehow ended up with and used for the 15 years prior.
We originally had a divider from the cabinet maker but I recently switched over to bamboo boxes from BBB. They are very sturdy and they can be lifted out individually if I want to put a bunch silverware on the counter when we serve buffet style. The boxes are deep and sturdy. We had an adjustable (width) divider in another drawer but I got rid of it pretty quickly because it wasted a lot of vertical space with the design and the individual cubbies were too shallow for my needs.
The boxes added up and ended up being pricey but I loved them so much I bought them for 6 other drawers in the kitchen. The money spent on the bones of the kitchen isn't worth it if the hard working areas aren't as functional as they can be.
houseful
11 years agomjocean
11 years agoSlappified
11 years agoHere is ours (picture taken during construction), it was a kitchenmaid promotion item. There are two levels and the top level is on drawer slides inside the drawer. It holds a ton more than our old drawer which was the same side. In the picture the top level is pushed into the cabinet to access the bottom level. We love it.
ILoveRed
11 years agoalvmusick
11 years agoLike slappified I have a double-stack drawer which I love since I have a small kitchen - it's in a 15 inch drawer above my trash pull-out (this set-up as discussed in another thread, is ideal for some of us, not for others). In order to get the two levels, the photo does not show that each level also has 2 horizontal spaces in the back, above the 3 vertical spaces that are shown. I have 10 of each standard utensil and they fit with extra room to spare - I must have been doing a load of dishes when I took this photo!
mjocean
11 years agojoyce_6333
11 years agoDH just finished making drawer dividers for two of my large kitchen drawers. He's not really a cabinet guy at all, but he did a nice job on these, and I finally feel these wide drawers are somewhat organized.
nhbaskets
11 years agoHere is what our GC built for me. Top photo is in island above dish drawers. Bottom is in prep area.
drbeanie2000
11 years agoThe wire mesh baskets in the house we rented let a lot of crumbs through and then we basically had to vacuum the drawers to get those crumbs out. The other crumbs just stuck in the mesh and were a pain to clean out. I think they were from the container store and were starting to rust.
With the bamboo dividers, we can just take them out and hold them over the trash and shake. I think they were from the Container Store, but they look identical to the BB&B ones others have posted. They look nice, and are not only available in the expandable type, but as separate pieces.
We have them for setting-the-table flatware:
for-use-near-stove flatware & gadgets:
for wooden spoons & ladles & things next to the stove:
and another one that is on the other side of the stove that isn't sure what it wants to be when it grows up:
They are better looking than the plastic ones I got long ago, which keeps our "junk drawer" a bit sorted!
Sharimac
11 years agobellsmom
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a2gemini
11 years agoI used a Rev-a-shelf for the flatware - originally planned on a 2 layer system but this works fine.
For the knife drawer - love the insert - I hated the one that came with the drawer.
2 21 inch drawers
flatware only
Knives only - Wusthoff insert
Junk drawer - several modifications since the picture
jwm211
11 years agojwm211
11 years agoa2gemini
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bellsmom