We needed a better solution for our cabinet for cutting boards, pizza pans, cookie sheets, etc. - mostly vertical storage, but with one shallow shelf to store a couple of pans. We made this from leftover boards and screws in our garage. Cost for materials: $0. Justification for keeping my scrap bin full: priceless.

Our original cabinet space

BTW, this might go in my Old Redneck Workshop posts...the grooves going from side to side were the first ones I cut - the wrong direction! So, I just cut some new ones the right way.

Top shelf and bottom piece secured.

Add the dividers

All done!

Everything in place.

This was a project that I took on back in 2002. Penny and I found this old, solid poplar chest-of-drawers at Page's Thieves Market in Mt. Pleasant for $50. We had in mind to refinish it and put it in our foyer. This particular project only took a couple of weeks, most of which was stripping multiple coats of shellac, varnish, stain and at least two different paint colors from the wood.

Addendum... March 5, 2011 -- Well, the chest-of-drawers is still here! We have THREE kids now, so it is rapidly becoming moving toward looking more like an antique than it used to. Logan, our 3-year old boy loves to throw things over the rail right above it, so it's got a few character dings now. Still love it though...