This Is the Most Unexpected Spot to Store Pots (It Frees Up So Much Cabinet Space!)

Pots have to be one of the most annoying kitchen items to store. They’re somewhat large, have handles that jut out, and are something you probably always find yourself reaching for. My Manhattan kitchen has four medium-sized cabinets, so I’m all too familiar with the embarrassing dance of shoving the door shut on an awkwardly piled pot stack. 

I’m not the only one who struggles with how to store pots best. Of course, there are wall racks that I could buy to display my pots, but the problem is I have no available real estate in my kitchen — except for a window that looks out onto another building. I was intrigued when I saw what Tamiko Hargrove did in her glam New Jersey apartment, though, as she also has a small cook space. 

Hargrove, the founder of A Wanderlust Home, has lived in her apartment for 14 years. Throughout that time, she’s found ways to make up for her lack of closet storage. “I wish I could use my oven to store my winter clothes as Carrie Bradshaw did with her oven,” she said at the time of her house tour. “I love to cook, so that would be pretty annoying removing my clothes in exchange for the roasted chicken.” 

While Tamiko’s apartment lacks closets and abundant storage, it’s also a rental, so she can’t make permanent structural changes. That didn’t stop her from coming up with a clever and fabulous storage solution for her pots, though. She has some dangling above her stove, which I’ve seen in other homes and is such a functional idea. But what really caught my attention was the pot rack hanging in front of the kitchen window. 

Even though Hargrove’s windows welcome an abundance of natural light, they also look out onto another building (like mine). Hanging the pots in the window makes them accessible while cooking, provides a little privacy by blocking the view into her kitchen, and is a wonderful way to display her gorgeous copper steel pots. (It looks like the rod matches her pots, too!) 

My kitchen is a lot darker than Hargrove’s, but seeing her ingenious window pot display made me want to replicate something like that in my space. For now, I’ve got my eyes on this pot rack from Amazon, which is similar to what she used in her space. 

Hargrove was raised around cooks, and I bet her kitchen is full of delightful recipes and beautiful memories. “You will find me in my kitchen most of the time,” she said at the time of her tour. “I’m always cooking, prepping to cook, or feeding Oliver, my cat.” 

To see more of this glamorous New Jersey apartment, check out the full House Tour.