If your kitchen looks anything like mine, chances are, you’ve got utensils stuffed all over the place. You’ve got your ladle in a cabinet, your tongs in a drawer, and your spatula on a shelf. It doesn’t have to be that way, though! While a trip to IKEA or the Container Store would likely bring a cheap fix to your cluttered kitchen, a little DIY ingenuity can do the trick, too.

Most people don’t think of pallets when they think of their kitchen — but pallets are practically first-and-foremost in mind when thinking about DIY, and that’s where the two disparate concepts, kitchens and pallets, are brought together. Humboldt Art Department’s Becky wanted to minimize cost in solving her kitchen woes, and by using pallets, she couldn’t have done much better.