7 Reasons to Hang Your Pots and Pans on a Rail
As homeowners make the most of efficient lower cabinets in the kitchen, wall space is opening up where upper cabinets used to be. This is wonderful and freeing, and now there are more opportunities to hang utility rails for pots, pans, utensils and other hardworking kitchen items. Here are seven compelling reasons to consider hanging a rail in your kitchen.
1. Your Kitchen Walls Need Something, But You Hate Open Shelves
Open shelves are one of those love-them-or-hate-them design elements since they’re convenient but tend to collect dust. Skinny utility rails, however, don’t have much space for dust to settle and hold everyday items that will be washed often. In this Stockholm kitchen by Lindalsköket, the rails and cookware add a mix of patinas and shapes to the white walls.
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Open shelves are one of those love-them-or-hate-them design elements since they’re convenient but tend to collect dust. Skinny utility rails, however, don’t have much space for dust to settle and hold everyday items that will be washed often. In this Stockholm kitchen by Lindalsköket, the rails and cookware add a mix of patinas and shapes to the white walls.
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This kitchen by LDa Architecture & Interiors uses the rails to store the lids along with the pots and pans in an interesting way.
Browse pot racks and rails in the Houzz Shop
Browse pot racks and rails in the Houzz Shop
Pat Kennedy Interiors
2. You Lack Storage Space
Pots and pans are space hogs, and there’s not always enough room to store them in cabinets and pantries, especially in compact kitchens. Rails are a great solution to this problem.
2. You Lack Storage Space
Pots and pans are space hogs, and there’s not always enough room to store them in cabinets and pantries, especially in compact kitchens. Rails are a great solution to this problem.
3. You Need an Ergonomic Storage Solution
Even if you have ample storage for pots and pans, sometimes their locations require a lot of bending over, squatting and digging around in a cabinet or low drawer to fetch what’s needed. Well-placed pot rails like the ones in this kitchen by Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership make cookware easy to find and grab.
Even if you have ample storage for pots and pans, sometimes their locations require a lot of bending over, squatting and digging around in a cabinet or low drawer to fetch what’s needed. Well-placed pot rails like the ones in this kitchen by Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership make cookware easy to find and grab.
4. You Want Easy Access to More Than Just Pots and Pans
Practically anything that can go on a hook can hang on a rail. These Boston homeowners use their copper pot rail for such daily-use items as a cutting board and an oven mitt. Other things that can hang include cooking utensils, coffee mugs and teacups.
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Practically anything that can go on a hook can hang on a rail. These Boston homeowners use their copper pot rail for such daily-use items as a cutting board and an oven mitt. Other things that can hang include cooking utensils, coffee mugs and teacups.
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Rails can keep herbs and other houseplants close at hand but off the countertops. Utility rails are also a good place to dry herbs.
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5. Your Room Needs Another Metal Accent
Pot rails are a great opportunity to make a statement with a metal finish. Wrought iron, brass, stainless steel, copper — whatever metal finish you fancy can be brought in through a utility rail and its hooks. In this kitchen by KitchenLab, the brass rail accentuates the brass on the vent hood and the stove.
Pot rails are a great opportunity to make a statement with a metal finish. Wrought iron, brass, stainless steel, copper — whatever metal finish you fancy can be brought in through a utility rail and its hooks. In this kitchen by KitchenLab, the brass rail accentuates the brass on the vent hood and the stove.
It’s also a chance to inject the kitchen with some beautiful workmanship. Along with the range and the vent hood, this rail was made by La Cornue.
Shop for copper cookware
Shop for copper cookware
6. You Want to Show Off Your Copper Cookware Collection
These homeowners are passionate about their Mauviel cookware collection. So the designers at Chestnut Grove Design Studio designed and crafted these pot rails in-house to turn the beloved collection into a focal point. The couple can enjoy looking at it every day.
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These homeowners are passionate about their Mauviel cookware collection. So the designers at Chestnut Grove Design Studio designed and crafted these pot rails in-house to turn the beloved collection into a focal point. The couple can enjoy looking at it every day.
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7. You Want to Intensify an Industrial Design
This Los Angeles loft by Andrea Michaelson Design has sleek industrial style. Cookware finishes like cast iron and stainless steel accentuate the look. And hanging the items at different lengths from long hooks creates a cool composition along the wall.
This Los Angeles loft by Andrea Michaelson Design has sleek industrial style. Cookware finishes like cast iron and stainless steel accentuate the look. And hanging the items at different lengths from long hooks creates a cool composition along the wall.
