How to Make a Spice Drawer Organizer in a Small Space

Organizing a small kitchen can be difficult. Finding the right places for the right items becomes a crafty challenge. We had this situation in our kitchen where the drawers on the side of the range (when fully open) are hard to get to. Basically, when you open the drawer, your backside will hit the fridge if you stand in front of the drawer. It is something we got used to over the years when using our corner spice drawer (Affiliate Link). So, when the drawer was open, the entire area would not be accessible by anyone else because of the tight quarters. I created a video and post about how I organized my spice drawer (Affiliate Link) when we finished remodeling the kitchen. Check it out here for details on this spice drawer (Affiliate Link) before I made the modifications today.

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Tools Used for this Spice Drawer Organizer
Instructions on how to make this Spice Drawer Organizer in a tight space.

Today, I was going through my spice drawer (Affiliate Link) to clean it up, and I figured I would make a change. Instead of being in front of the drawer to open it, I can pull it open and view it from the side where I can easily see it without hitting the fridge. It's an easy change, but I now have to modify the inside.

Here’s the before picture of the drawer. As you can see, it is very close to the corner and refrigerator. See how close it is to the other cabinet.

Tools Used for this Spice Drawer Organizer

The items I used in this DIY spice drawer organizer (Affiliate Link) design are:

Spice Liner 1 box - good for a 13-inch drawer width - cut to the width of the drawer. - this is a similar product on Amazon (Affiliate Link) (affiliate)

Label Maker (Amazon (Affiliate Link) affiliate)

Scissors (Amazon (Affiliate Link) affiliate)

Pen or Pencil

Tape measure (Amazon (Affiliate Link) affiliate)

Tools for organizing a spice drawer in a small space

Instructions on how to make this Spice Drawer Organizer in a tight space.

So, to do this, I used “Spice Liner - Build a Spice drawer” and cut them down to the size of the width of the drawer.

Using a tape measure (Affiliate Link) and pen, measure the width of the drawer. This measurement will be the length of the Spice Liners. Mark the measurements with the pen and cut them with the scissors. It cuts very easily with regular scissors.

Here’s what it looks like when they were cut and finished.

If you have extra partial space, trim one down and add it to that space. See how I filled in my gap below.

Trim the liner down to fit the last part of the drawer

I cut the end off ¼ inch with the scissor.

cut the last one to fit exactly in the drawer

Here's what it looked like when I placed the last cut liner into its place.

I put the spices (Affiliate Link) in ABC order by spice name when possible. I labeled each spice with the name of the spice or herb directly on the liner. By doing this, when someone removes or finishes the spice/herb, I will know exactly what was removed, and I can, therefore, replace it later.

Here’s the finished drawer organizer (Affiliate Link). By placing them in this direction, we could add more spice and herb bottles than when we placed the spices (Affiliate Link) facing the front of the drawer - Yay! We are so pleased with the way it came out.

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I hope this post inspires you to make your own small kitchen spice drawer organizer (Affiliate Link). Please share your comments and questions below. I would love to hear from you.