Spice rack in the upper cabinet with built-in extractor hood

To hide the range hood and the exhaust hose accordingly, I built a spice rack:

It was basically leftover recycling: there were still leftovers from the side panels, and there were also 2 doors left over (they were pre-drilled because after the first 2 doors we decided to mount the handles vertically instead of horizontally...)

The installation is screwed in and can be easily removed if something should ever be wrong with the range hood. The shelves are deliberately not that deep; if necessary, an additional spice shelf could be screwed inside the door, there would be space.

Maybe a tip for everyone who might not know what to do with such a wall cabinet.

Regards, Wolfgang

hi Wolfgang, looks great leftover always arise anyway, so you made good use of them and have everything ready exactly where it belongs. what might interest others... how much depth space is there above the motor (how high does it reach ?) in the inner area. the question is because.... if the shelves are further back at the top, small shelves for spices, small stuff, etc. can still be attached to the inner door at the top. best regards robi

Hello robi,

that's exactly how it was meant and I had already mentioned it. You could also screw spice racks (there are various wire ones ...) on the inside of the door.

I will measure the depth when I get the chance, the kitchen is in our rented granny flat, so I'm not there every day. But you can roughly estimate it based on the rows of holes. Our tenant was also very enthusiastic about my tinkering, as you can see, quite a lot fits in there.

Regards Wolfgang

Hello Wolfgang, I had the idea of the spice rack 25 years ago for my kitchen, but not from Ikea, however, I gave up on it after a few weeks. Due to the moisture from the rising steam, spores formed in the spice jars and they started to mold. After that, I hung my ladle and other flat items in it. Regards Mr. Rossi

Hello Mr. Rossi,

we have a similar solution in our kitchen - which is about 2 years old, but not from IKEA - and so far absolutely no problems. Perhaps the exhaust hoods at that time were not as effective?

Regards Wolfgang

Hello, looks good. Are the shelves attached to the back panel with regular screws? I have only placed a thin plywood back panel in front of the housing of the extractor hood in my Faktum kitchen. For the shelves, I drilled a second hole behind the existing holes in the corpus at the desired spots and inserted small grooved boards like the normal shelves. How much space there is depends on the model of the extractor hood. For me, it is 10 cm. I have no moisture problems. It is an extractor hood with a pull-out visor.