Saturday, September 10, 2011

Kitchen Pot Rack

We recently completed and installed a new kitchen pot rack.  We spent a good deal of time searching the web looking at other homemade and custom built pot racks.  We ultimately settled on a simple design using materials we already had available.  The 4x4 vertical posts are recycled from a banister railing we picked up.  The remaining lumber is mostly scraps we had laying around.  The brass bars are a Second Use find, and complement the brass we've used throughout the kitchen design.  We built the rack perfectly centered around the light fixture which we just recently installed.

2 comments:

Sharon Kwilter said...

Nice job on the pot rack. Very creative!

Kurt said...

I found the bars more than two years ago. They were part of a push bar for a commercial door from the early 1900s. Its good to see a vision from the past actually get finished. I spent several weeks testing out building copper chain from 6 gage wire and hanging weights from it before finally coming up with this plan. I made all the hooks by bending and hammering copper wire too.