Sideboard Turned Kitchen Island - Wayfair Hack

I can’t wait to show you how easy it is to create a kitchen island for a small kitchen using a sideboard!

Y’all know I love a good hack…turning something that you don’t really need into something that functions for you is one of my favorite things to do. Recently, I teamed up with Porch and Wayfair to come up with a back to school hack using something from my very favorite place for all things home, Wayfair! We live in a small home, so storage is always a pretty big issue for us. We needed some additional storage in our kitchen, so I knew instantly that I wanted to find something to add. We have no kitchen island, so that’s what I wanted to focus on.

This is the sideboard that I started with. It’s super cute, and I love it with the doors on it, but I really wanted open shelving. For me, if I can’t see something it doesn’t exist…out of sight, out of mind. I started by removing the doors. I also didn’t have a ton of room for opening and closing the doors.

Just by taking the doors off and adding a few hooks, I doubled the storage space in our kitchen. I have a place to hang my strainers so they are easy to grab when I need them. I was able to bring my cookbooks down to a level where I could actually get them out for menu planning. I added a basket to corral lunch packing items and straws, and was able to store my sandwhich press/grill on a shelf so I would remember we owned one. I’m so bad about forgetting I have things when I can’t see them. Now…pressed sandwiches for everybody!

I added a hook on the others side to hang a tea towel for hand drying and such, and also added a piece of butcher block to the top for added food prep space. We have very little counter space, so this was my favorite addition!

I couldn’t be more happy with the kitchen island addition to our kitchen! It’s the perfect size for a small kitchen with little room and no island. If you think outside of the box a little bit, it’s easy to add additional storage space to your small kitchen!