2012 April 30 | Beneath My Heart

Welcome to the “Best DIY Projects of April” linky party!

I am so glad you are here!

I KNOW you have been busy little bees this past month, so I cannot wait to catch up on all you’ve been up to.

My best project of the month was the little DIY Cook Book holder that my husband made me. I just posted about it yesterday.

I’ve also been busy working on my sister’s laundry room reveal, but we are not quite ready, so I can’t share that yet. {bummer}

Anywho, it’s time to get this party started!

Here are the party guidelines {PLEASE READ CAREFULLY}:

Your project MUST be about DIY home decor or home improvement.
Only ONE project per blogger, please.
Your project needs to be from the month of April, 2012.
Please enjoy visiting other great projects by other bloggers and leave some comment love.
Please link back to the party somewhere in your post. (Only those with a link back to the party will be considered to be featured on my blog.)

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Last week, I wrote a post called Simple Ways to Store Your Cookbooks.

I shared that post because I knew I would be showing you how we created a DIY Cook Book Holder for our kitchen.

Before I show you my new Cook Book Holder, let’s take a quick look back at what this part of my kitchen looked like about 5 short months ago.

WOW! We’ve come a long way baby! Smile

Notice the soffit above our cabinets. We tore out the soffit and moved our cabinet boxes up to the ceiling.

We also tore out our old pantry to the left of our oven, and created new cabinet space and a new, bigger pantry.

This is what our finished kitchen looked like the day before Christmas…

Much better!

Since we moved our cabinets up to the ceiling, we created some space under our cabinets for additional storage.

I thought this would be a great place to store my cook books and spices.

So I told Cy what I was kind of thinking about doing, and while I was in Utah at the SNAP! Conference, he made me a new shelf for my cook books.

Here is a video he shot of the process while I was gone…

I love this new storage space!

And I cannot wait to make another one like it on the other side of the microwave for my spices!

So if you are thinking about remodeling your kitchen, maybe you could move your existing cabinets up higher to create some under cabinet shelving as well.