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Here’s where my spices always lived.  Yup, I am a sucker for infomercial products and bought two of these Swivel Store spice racks for $19.99 wayyy before I had a house, let alone a cabinet to put them in.  (I also bought two for my mom and two for my mother-in-law, haha)

When I designed out kitchen layout, I totally had these in mind and I knew I wanted a narrow cabinet near the stove to hold my spice racks and spices.  However, I soon realized that these pull-out spice racks aren’t all they are cracked up to be.  Neither was the Ped Egg.  Does that stop me from wanting a Wax Vac?  Heck no, man.

Anyway… back to my spices.  I hate the racks because only certain brands of spices fit right.  The expensive ones.  And I’m a tight-wad.  Plus, having them in the wall cabinet just wasn’t working for me.  I found myself throwing random spices into this pull-out cabinet that I originally thought would just hold oil and vinegar kind of stuff.  

Since it was already holding some of my spices and there was plenty of space available, I figured my life would be easier if I moved all of my spices to the pull-out cabinet.  So I took everything out of both cabinets, cleaned the shelves (which were pretty nasty) and lined the top shelf with some cute paper from Target.  I also covered the paper with clear contact paper so any messes could be easily cleaned up.

Once the shelves were back in (and moved up one notch) I labeled the top of each spice.  I thought about putting them in different containers that were prettier or printing cute little labels, but I realized that I wasn’t likely to keep a system like that up since I add to my spice collection quite often.  So, I decided to just go with Sharpie on the top.

I alphabetized everything, and I had room to throw random-shaped items in on the right.  Then, I just threw the bigger stuff into the middle shelf, and short stubby containers into the bottom shelf.

I love that this whole little project was free, and I was able to fit everything that was in the pull-out originally plus everything from the original spice cabinet.  Holla!