Dish Towel Dilemma

The kitchen in our house isn't exactly huge, not even big really. I have limited drawer and cabinet space. We're talking two upper cabinets here, and I don't count the ones above the stove and fridge because I can't reach those easily. Drawer space isn't much better. But what I lack in kitchen storage I make up for with closets around the house.

Well one space that had been bothering me was the drawer I stored my kitchen towels in. It always felt cramped and mushed together, if they were all in there I could barely get it shut. I had been toying with the idea of getting some type of basket/box to put them in and to store said basket/box in our pantry. You might be wondering why I would want to give up my precious pantry space for towels, but as I mentioned before, I have plenty of closets and I've turned one close to the kitchen into a kind of second pantry. I'll show it in another post one day.

I didn't take a shot of the drawer before I got started on this because I was too excited once I got home with the basket.

I picked it up at Wal-Mart for about $5.00, it's the same style as the basket I picked up to store some small toiletries for guest, I showed it in this post. 

I pulled out all my dish towels and worked with it for a few minutes trying to figure out how I wanted them set up. I'm not certain I'll keep using this basket for it or if I'll switch to a more square style down the road, it might be a little easier to get the towels in there. But for now this works perfectly fine.

It'll be interesting to see how long it stays like this though

It's sitting on the bottom shelf in my pantry for now. I messed with the towels some more as you can see. As for the extra drawer I have now, I have plans for it that I'm still working on. I'll share when I get it complete.