It started with a cabinet and a colander. More specifically, me halfway inside a lower cabinet, muttering under my breath, elbow jammed against a can of beans while trying to reach a colander that somehow migrated to the back. That’s when I finally said it out loud: “I need cabinet pull-out shelves. Not in a…

It was one of those rainy Saturday mornings, the kind where you convince yourself you’re finally going to tackle that kitchen cabinet project you’ve been putting off for three months. I had a cup of lukewarm coffee in one hand and a sanding block in the other (because, of course, I’d lost my electric sander…

I was elbow-deep in my grandma’s kitchen, trying to rescue her old cabinets from the 1970s (the ones with squeaky hinges and that sweet wood smell you can’t fake), when I discovered something: one of the lower drawers had this hidden tilt-out thing for dish towels. I had no idea what it was called at…

I remember the afternoon I nearly gave up on my kitchen. The kids had just “helped” me organize the Tupperware drawer (which somehow made things worse), and I was standing there, arms crossed, staring at a pile of pots with no home. I swear the measuring cups were multiplying behind my back. That was the…

It was one of those Sunday afternoons when I should have been folding laundry or prepping lunches for the week. Instead, I was hunched over in my kitchen, drill in hand, trying to install a drawer base cabinet I’d bought on sale (it was $149, and I was irrationally proud of that deal). My toddler…

I remember the exact moment I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I was crouched on the kitchen floor, measuring what I thought was a “standard” base cabinet, while my toddler was sticking a banana peel in the drawer I’d just cleaned out. (This was after my third trip to Home Depot…

Funny how a kitchen can sneak up on you. Mine did, anyway. One minute I was wiping down a sticky drawer in my grandmother’s old house, and the next I was neck-deep in a rabbit hole of types of kitchen cabinets. I didn’t mean to become someone who knew the difference between base and wall…

Tall cabinets are like the unsung heroes of the kitchen. They don’t get the spotlight like islands or fancy fixtures, but they quietly store everything: brooms, snacks, dog food, that giant roasting pan you only use once a year. And yet, one of the most overlooked details is this: pantry cabinet depth. When I redid…

You know that moment when you open an upper cabinet and can actually see everything inside without a full-on shoulder stretch? That’s not an accident; it’s the magic of the 12-inch standard wall cabinet depth doing its thing. Most wall cabinets are built to be shallower than base units, and once you live with them…

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think much about cabinet depth until I had to cram a mixing bowl into a drawer that almost fit. That was during my first real kitchen redo, the one where I lovingly (and awkwardly) sanded down my grandma’s old oak cabinets. Somewhere between the smell of sawdust and the click…