Turn An Old Wooden Spatula Into A Functional Wall Rack With A Savvy DIY

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Just imagine — you're standing in your kitchen, rummaging around in your utensil drawer, searching for your pizza cutter, but somehow it's gotten buried at the back and you just can't find it. Kitchen drawers are so easy to get overfilled and disorganized, so sometimes you just need a little more storage space. Even if you're keeping the kitchen drawer clutter organized with a Dollar Tree hack, you may still need additional room for cooking utensils, pot holders, and other larger items. But what do you do if you don't want them on the countertop? Skip the crowded drawers, cabinets, and counters and transform an old wooden spatula into a wall rack so you can hang items up instead.

Yep, you're about to give an aging spatula a whole new life! If you don't have any spatulas ready to be repurposed for this savvy DIY project, head to the thrift store and check the kitchen section for one. Or, you can pay around $9 for a two-pack of Hefild Uncoated Beech Wood Cooking Spatulas. To create this wall rack, you'll also need a piece of thick cardboard, a hammer and some small nails, scissors, a hot glue gun and glue sticks, and some Nicpro Metallic Copper Acrylic Paint and a paintbrush. Acrylic paint is perfect for this DIY because it dries quickly and creates a durable finish. Finally, grab a few pieces of paper and some Gorilla Invisible Hold Mounting Tape, and you're ready to get started!

Start by cutting a piece of cardboard to fit the spatula handle. The easiest way to do this is to place your spatula on the cardboard and trace around the handle. Then cut along the tracing lines with scissors and hot glue the cardboard shape to the spatula handle. Disguise the edges of the cardboard with thin pieces of paper glued in place. Now, it's time to attach the nails to the handle. How many nails you need depends on how many items you want to hang from the wall rack and the length of the spatula handle, but five or six nails is generally a good number.

Make a dot with a marker in every spot you want a nail — you can use a ruler to ensure the spaces between each nail are equal. Then place a bead of hot glue on each dot. Firmly push the first nail through the bead of glue and into the cardboard, then gently hammer the nail into the wooden handle of the spatula. Repeat the process with all five or six nails. After you've attached all the nails to the spatula handle, it's time to paint your new wall rack. Cover the entire thing in metallic copper paint, including the nails and the head of the spatula. That's it! You've completed this savvy DIY project that transforms a wooden spatula into a wall rack.

You don't have to use metallic copper paint on this wall rack; you can use whatever color you like. Add a little flair to the room and paint the rack bright pink, or match the paint color to that of your kitchen cabinets. If the spatula is looking really shabby, refresh the wood with fine-grit sandpaper before getting started on this repurposing idea. After the paint has cured, you can attach your new rack to the wall in your kitchen using mounting tape.

The strength of the rack will depend on how you mount it to the wall. The Gorilla invisible mounting tape can hold up to 15 pounds and is renter-friendly, but you could also use Alien Tape Double-Sided Nano Tape, which is one of the two strongest double-sided mounting tapes, based on reviews. Or, for the ultimate in security, you could screw this spatula-turned-rack to the wall. Can you guess what the final step of this project is? Yep, you now get to pick which cooking utensils or other items to hang on the rack.

We all have a favorite wooden spatula, but if it has any cracks, discoloration, or feels rough, it may no longer be safe for cooking. This wall rack DIY project gives the spatula a new life rather than sending it to the landfill. If you love the idea of reusing wooden spatulas but you don't need more wall storage in your kitchen, there are other genius ways to repurpose a wooden spatula outside of cooking, like creating wall art or using one to tuck in bed sheets.