Make a Plate Rack
Storage is important throughout the house, but it is perhaps the most essential in the kitchen where there are countless dishes, tools and appliances to keep organized. A plate rack installed in a kitchen cabinet is simply one way to help keep your kitchen organized. To build your own plate rack, you do not need to have the skills of a master carpenter; you simply need to be able to take accurate measurements and assemble the pieces of the rack using common sense.
Instructions
1
Select a kitchen cabinet in which to install your plate rack and remove the doors. In most cases, cabinet doors can be easily removed by simply unscrewing the hinges with a screwdriver.
2
Measure the interior of the cabinet using a measuring tape and record these measurements on a sheet of paper for future reference. Take the measurement of the plates you intend to store in the plate rack to be sure the cabinet you have chosen is adequate. To determine the height of the plate rack, simply add two inches to the diameter of the plate.
3
Use a jigsaw to cut three pieces of 1/2-by-1/2-inch hardwood. One of the pieces should be cut to the width of the cabinet interior, and two should be cut to the depth minus 1 1/2 inches.
4
Apply a bead of wood glue in a horizontal line across the back of the cabinet at the desired height of the plate rack and press the first piece of hardwood into the glue. Drive nails from a nail gun through the wood into the cabinet to secure it in place. Using the same procedure, glue and nail the the remaining two pieces of wood to the sides of the cabinet at the same height with the ends flush against the first piece you installed.
5
Cut a sheet of 1/2-inch plywood using the measurements for the interior width of the cabinet and the depth minus one inch. Slide the plywood into the cabinet so it rests flat on top of the three pieces of wood you just installed and secure it in place by driving nails from the nail gun down through the plywood into the hardwood supports.
6
Cut two 1-by-1-inch pieces of hardwood to the interior width of the cabinet and lay them flat in front of you. Measure and mark the center of each piece of wood in pencil, and then make additional marks every 1 1/2 inches along the length of the wood, moving out from the center.
