How to Store Dishes in a Kitchen Drawer
Storing your dishes in a kitchen drawer can serve a variety of purposes. You can store them there for long-term keeping, or you can place them in a drawer for quick and easy retrieval. Before you stick a tower of dishes in a drawer, you need to prepare the drawer to accommodate them. Also, think about how often you plan on getting them out. This will help you decide the best way to protect them from damage. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Dish washing soap
- Water
- Kitchen rag
- Kitchen towel
- Paper towels (optional)
- Pegboad
- Tape measure
- Circular saw
- Work bench
- Wooden dowels
- Wood glue
Instructions
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Regular Storing
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Choose the drawers you want to store your dishes in. If you have a lot of dishes and shallow drawers, you will need to use more than one drawer to store your dishes.
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Thoroughly clean your dishes. Remove any grim and particles on your dishes.
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Group the dishes together and stack them up. Dinner plates, salad plates, salad bowls and soup bowls should be grouped in separate stacks.
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Place one stack of dishes in the drawer. If the stack is too high for you to be able to shut the drawer, you will have to use more than one drawer.
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Place a skid-proof shelf liner in the bottom of the drawer. You may need to cut the liner to the correct size for your drawer.
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Place the stacks of dishes inside the drawer and carefully close the drawer. If you are storing the dishes long term, place a paper towel between each dish. This helps prevents the dishes from chipping.
Creative Storing
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Choose the drawer or drawers you want to store your dishes in.
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Purchase a pegboard at a local hardware or home supply store. Cut it to fit the bottom of your drawer.
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Place a stack of dishes inside the drawer, and mark the four peg holes that sit closest to the dishes. You will need one peg for each corner, creating a square around the dishes.
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Remove the dishes and use wood glue to glue in a wooden dowel in each of the four peg holes. Attempt to close the drawer, and check to see that the dowels aren't too long for the drawer to close.
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Continue to place stacks of dishes in the drawer and mark peg holes. Glue in wooden dowels and allow the glue to completely dry before storing your kitchen dishes in the drawer.
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Tips & Warnings
Store flatware in cups or flatware holders for safekeeping.
Use caution when operating power tools.
