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DIY Magnetic Spice Rack

Magnetic Spike RackAfter seeing this post on Digg I figured I should post my spice rack project.

I made this spice rack for Bridget before Chrismas. It is simply a piece of sheet steel that I bought at Lowes for about $20. I cut it to the size of the side of our cabinet with my Dremel. I attached the sheet to the cabinet with bolts. This was more for the aesthetics than practicality. Our stove and refrigerator are polished metal, so the look seemed to match. A better (albeit very permanent) choice would have been to use construction adhesive to adhere the sheet to the cabinet. I then purchased the magnetic spice containers at a kitchen supply store for about $1.50 apiece. Bridget bought the magnetic labeling strips from The Container Store. They are erasable so there is no worry of wasting them.

The parts list for this project: – One (1) 24″ x 48″ sheet of medium gauge steel – Four (4) short (but wide, for strength) hex bolts – One (1) tube of white caulking – Twenty four (24) magnetic spice containers – Twelve (12) magnetic erasable labels

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  1. Mike S. said

    Nice, very nice. But you might want to change the title of the post to reflect what you really built. I came here wondering just what exactly a “Spike Rack” was, in hopes that you built one of those spike strips that the police lay down across the road to blow out the tires of a fleeing assailant, only to find how to build a kitchen storage device. Imagine my disappointment!

  2. AxsDeny said

    LOL. Thanks. I posted this VERY early this morning. My inner-editor (as well as my real editor) was still asleep.

  3. Kristan said

    It wasn’t totally inaccurate. I zoomed in on your wall of “spices,” and I think “Party Drugs” [row 2, far right] qualifies more as a “spike” than a “spice,” anyway. Just a technicality.

  4. cindy said

    In about one week, you are going to laugh your tuckass off. I’m not going to say why, you just will.

  5. Mike V. said

    Dude, you can put your weed in there

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