The Budget-Friendly Organizer IKEA Fans Are Loving For Tidy Coffee Mug Storage

Mugs are one of the building blocks of a happy get-together. Whether you fill them with tea, coffee, or hot chocolate, they're a way of welcoming people and making them feel at home. It's hard to walk past a cute mug in a shop and ignore its potential, but creating organized mug storage from the wild piles gets trickier with each mug you add. IKEA comes to the rescue with a neat solution that easily adapts to your needs: the ÅKERBRUK wall organizer. 

The ÅKERBRUK is a minimalistic black metal shelf with a wooden dowel as a cross bar to hold items on the shelf. There's a slim metal rod below the shelf, and it comes with four S hooks. Mugs can hang off the S hooks by their handles, while the top shelf can be used for tea and coffee supplies. You can always add more S-hooks to the bar to fit more mugs in, but you don't want to crowd them too much or they'll look cluttered and could bang into one another.

The top shelf can also be filled with mugs stored upside down, which is the way you should be storing your glassware and mugs. The gap on the side of the shelf is likely to be large enough that a mug can slip through. If the gap is a problem, block it by attaching a piece of wire neatly in line with the dowel. If you're good at woodworking, match another section of dowel and attach it along the sides. Mount the shelf near a workspace close to the kettle and within easy reach of the fridge for milk.

The ÅKERBRUK shelf can be mounted inside a cabinet if you don't have enough open wall space, or if you'd prefer to protect your mugs behind closed doors to prevent them from gathering dust. You may find that you have more mugs than a single ÅKERBRUK shelf can handle. If that's the case, it might be time to sort through your mugs and repurpose some of them. There are many smart ways to reuse mugs for useful storage solutions around your home that will take the pressure off your kitchen storage solution. Once you've combed through your mug collection and you still have too many, consider some of the DIY coffee mug décor projects to add style to your home. After this second edit, you can be sure that the mugs that are left are the ones you have to find space for.

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If you still need more display space, the simplest solution is to invest in more ÅKERBRUK shelves and turn your mugs into a design feature. How to mount them will depend on the available free wall space. For a tall, narrow wall, mount them at intervals above each other, leaving enough space for the mugs to hang without getting in the way of the shelf below. If you have a long stretch of overhead cabinets, consider mounting the shelves on the wall between the cabinets and the countertop. Mount them end-to-end to create a long row of mug storage that accommodates all your beautiful mugs.