Space Saver

When I was in Italy, I saw something that I loved.  It's not Italian, necessarily, but I thought it was smart.  Over there, kitchens (homes) are smaller, and they don't have the room to store stuff on the counter.  I have had a knife block for years, but I thought it made a lot more sense to store knives on the wall with a metallic strip.

For about a year, I gave up almost a quarter of my counter space to a knife block and a bunch of glass jars that held whole grains.  I shifted things around in the pantry last weekend, and moved the jars in there.  Today, I put up a metallic knife strip on the wall.   I think it'll work out well.

I have some knives waiting to be cleaned that aren't there. When they are all in place it's a tight fit, so I stored three heavy duty knives (which I rarely if ever use) in safety sleeves in drawers.

Check out that counter space it freed up - the knife block and the jars used to fill most of that whole corner.