DIY Grocery Slider

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My 100th post !  I can not think of sharing a more delightful, awesome, incredible ... {ok, you get the idea} project with you.

Every week, when linking to Classy Clutter's , linky party, I drooled over the one Mallory made. If you link to their party, I am sure you have seen it too, if not - these are very talented ladies and definitely worth a visit.

To have a look at their's, click HERE.

We made our Grocery Slider much the same as they have done - mainly our sizes are different as we had a bit of a larger opening {our opening was around 200mm and the Slider's final width is 190mm}.

The castors we bought were the swivel type - that did not work too well, and Roy welded them to only run straight, not to swivel.

Here are some more close-ups:

Roy's first reaction was ".. we need more canned food.." for the 2 shelves allocated to keeping our canned food.

We improved a bit on Classy Clutter's design in the sense that we added a sliding mechanism bolted to the side of the counter - this makes sliding much easier - before we added this, the Slider was a bit "wonky" 

Nicely tucked between the refrigerator and the counter !

As we are still busy with the renovations to our kitchen I only took pics of the Slider {I think you know what was the most important part of the renovations, as this is really the only piece that is completely finished !} The rest of the kitchen is still a mess (I only saw the mark on the refrigerator when typing up this post..uhm, sorry).

What we have used:

Double sided White Melamine - cut to our custom sizes - {framework and shelves}

White Masonite for the backing - I glued some wall paper to the inside after we painted it white

Pin nails - for the Masonite backing to the Melamine frame

Handle

4 x Castors {see above about the swivel type}

Side strips which we ironed on to the open sides of the Melamine (available from most hardware stores)

Screws and white screw caps - as the Slider is quite wide, we used three screws/caps per side per shelf/top and bottom

Sliding Mechanism as in the photo above

7 x 12mm Dowel sticks - painted white

The bottom shelf is a little higher than the others as this one will be used for taller bottles - the dowel stick was also placed a little higher than on the other shelves.

Now .. I can not wait to finish the kitchen and share that with you!  

Let me know what you think - total honesty - that's all I expect from you {big whink here}

Ciao for now,

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