DIY Stand Mixer Attachment Organiser

Learn how to make a simple stand mixer attachment organiser using a wooden plate rack. No more jumble of attachments in a drawer!

I love a bit of DIY, and when my stand mixer attachments had gotten tangled up and stuck together for the 173876248586438th time, I knew I had to come up with an easy alternative way to store them.

For quite a few years, we had used a wooden plate rack to store pot lids in the cupboard, and I got the idea to turn one into a rack to hold my mixer attachments.

I popped some pictures up on Instagram and on my Facebook page, and the response was so positive that I put together a little tutorial here so everyone can see just how simple it is to make!

If you’re handy with the tools and DIY, you could easily make one of these from wood and some dowels. But for those of us who are only semi-handy, this rack-hack is easy and quick to make!

What You’ll Need:

• A wooden plate rack – To make this you’ll need a wooden plate rack as pictured above, with two wooden pieces and dowels that hold it together and support the plates. If you’re searching for one online it can be difficult to know what they’re called on various websites, so try searching for terms like “wooden plate rack”, “wooden dish rack”, “wooden plate holder” or “wooden dish drainer”.
• A pair of secateurs or a small saw – To shorten the dowels on the plate rack.
• A hammer – Optional, but some of the dowels may need a little bit of whacking encouragement to go back in the holes. I used a little craft hammer.
• Grippy feet – Again, these are optional, but they stop the rack from moving around in the cupboard when you’re moving the attachments on and off. I just used small clear cabinet door stoppers.

How to make a DIY stand mixer attachment organiser

As you can see above, the stand I purchased came in two main pieces (one for each side, with the upright dowels already inserted) and two more dowels that you insert to join the pieces together.

I removed all of the upright dowels (they weren’t glued in), and trimmed some of the dowels to fit the attachments. Some of the mixer attachments only have short holes, so those needed shorter dowels. Ones like the scraper attachment are quite long, so I left the dowel long to stop the scraper wobbling around.

I also left some longer dowels at one end to hold the splash guard for my Kitchen Aid.

You can cut the dowels however you like, just make sure whatever you’re using (secateurs, or a saw, or a laser beam, or whatever) is clean and sharp.

Then just arrange your dowels and attachments so that they all fit. Because the whisks take up more space, I put them on the ends.

You may need to give the dowels a whack with a hammer to make sure they’re pushed all the way back into the holes. If you wanted to, you could glue them in, but these fit tightly, so I didn’t need to glue them.

Then I flipped it upside down and attached the little grippy feet to the bottom to stop the rack from moving around in the cupboard. It also makes the stand easier to pick up if you need to move it around.

Aaaaaand, there you have it – one super easy DIY Stand Mixer Attachment Organiser.

Mine lives in my cake pantry but it can go in a cupboard, deep drawer or even just on the bench next to your mixer.

You could fill the remaining dowel holes with wood filler if you wanted to, and paint the organiser to match your kitchen, but I’ve left mine as is (and update – it’s still working great 8 years later).

If you have any cool kitchen storage ideas, I’d love to hear about them! Let me know in the comments below.

~Natalie
xx

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