Welcome back to the ongoing saga known as Patti’s 2025-26 kitchen remodel. I built a base for the spice rack pull-out cabinet a while back. Now it was time I fully installed it. I’ve had to plan for installing cabinets in the past, but this was a new level of planning. This was something I could only attach from the bottom and back. We had a piece left over finished wood from other parts of the cabinets. I cut it down to create a front for the spice rack. The hard part of attaching the spice rack to the base was finding a place to screw that I could get to, and that didn’t prevent the slide from working properly. I couldn’t connect things directly, so I had to add a third piece of wood to connect them both. Actually, it was multiple pieces to connect to different parts of the spice rack. Luckily, the finished product would cover these irregular wood pieces.
The spice rack was going between the lazy Susan in the corner and eventually a stove on the other side. To connect the back of the spice rack, I had to pull the rack completely out from the base. The added weight on the front caused it to fall over until I screwed it in. To prevent this, I used two cabinet lifts I bought earlier to brace the front. Once I screwed in, I still worried it would just fall over. It stayed in place and held nicely when I opened it. I lined up the front of the spice rack with the lazy Susan. It just looked like an extension of the lazy Susan, but when you pulled it out, it came out to reveal the spices within.
The basics of the spice rack were complete, but I still needed to add a small upper piece to the top and a knob to open it. Patti also wanted to add a panel closest to the future stove. Attaching it was going to be difficult because I had to avoid all the moving parts. That was most of the spice rack. Only the bottom and back of the spice rack were secure. I had to run a piece of wood from the wall to the front of the spice rack to have something to attach to at the top of the lazy Susan. If this had been one of the first projects I had to do on the kitchen, I don’t think I could have done it as well. I created several bases before this and found several creative ways of connecting things with only a few connection points.
Since I don’t have enough for today’s article, I’m going to talk about things I’ve had to look up in writing this Thoughts from Life. The first problem was the term “lazy Susan.” When I began working on the kitchen, I had no idea what a lazy Susan was. Once I learned what it was, writing it was the next issue. If it was any other piece of furniture, I would just write it in lowercase. Because this piece of furniture has a proper name in it, I needed to capitalize Susan. My next thought was, “Is the whole thing capitalized?” Is it “Lazy Susan?” Eventually, I found a definitive answer. You write it as “lazy Susan.” With that out of the way, I had the spice rack. For that, we’ll skip to the next paragraph.
Technically, the spice rack was a pull-out spice rack. This made it a skinny cabinet or drawer. I looked them both up online and got similar results with cabinet and drawer. In the end, I went with “spice rack pull-out cabinet.” It seemed to get more results that were closest to what I was working with. This is the inside baseball of writing about our kitchen remodel, but it’s for Patti so I must relate it to baseball somehow. Patti loves baseball and I love Patti. At least she didn’t have me put on knobs that looked like baseballs. I’m really thinking that last sentence out. I don’t want to give Patti any ideas. Hopefully, she won’t read this. Who am I kidding, she’s the only one who reads these articles. At least someone is reading them.
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