A few months ago, I cut myself three times washing knifes and what turned out to be a shattered glass hiding in the dishwater. Then a couple minutes later, I cut an apple and sliced open my thumb to the point of nearly going for stitches. So it seems wise to start keeping my knives in an open space.
Blood loss be damned though, I need more counter space! My knife set turned out to be one of my favourite Christmas gifts (even if it does have it out for me), but like many people in small apartments, I have no counter space for the knife block. I’ve never particularly liked magnetic knife strips, but I’m a girl on a mission and I’ll sacrifice my own personal taste if it means there’s room for a few more dishes to collect by the sink.
I picked out FINTORP for this purpose and actually performed the elusive mission of “popping into IKEA to grab one thing” and do you know how hard it is to RUN through the showroom because you couldn’t possibly trace your way to the kitchenwares through the warehouse?
Before I get started, I think I should make one thing clear in case it hasn’t been adequately communicated so far: I make things really complicated. Not on purpose, but it seems like every time I try to do one simple thing as a project, it turns into a 2-week-long debacle. Even “I’ll just quickly throw up this light fixture” turned into a 2-hour nuisance. This story is peppered with moments like that, but here was the base of my problem (literally): the wall I planned to mount this on is the only cement wall in the whole apartment. My bachelor apartment was 100% cement, so I know that it is impossible to drill into without a special drill that I sort of despise. I decided to improvise…
The red box pictured here is my fail-safe for everything that is going to be temporary, won’t take a nail, or simply involves enough work that my laziness takes over. I thought Velcro mounting tape could do just as fine of a job mounting a magnetic knife strip, and hey, I wasn’t wrong.