Trying to find a knife rack that holds knives by the stove instead of in a block? I thought, “no problem…they are everywhere, right?”
Wrong.
I found this out as we were doing our kitchen makeover, and got really frustrated. NO ONE had a magnetic knife strip. NO ONE.
I thought about ordering online, but when I went to our local office supply store, I found these heavy duty magnets:

Four packages and a strip of oak wood later, hubby screwed the whole thing into the wall and I hung my knives up:

Cool, huh? Now I don’t have the knife block on the counter and I don’t have to worry about some of the knives not fitting correctly into it. They are out of the way, yet easy to reach. And the magnets have some awesome holding power!


Heather’s homesteading journey started in 2006, with baby steps: first, she got a few raised beds, some chickens, and rabbits. Over the years, she amassed a wealth of homesteading knowledge, knowledge that you can find in the articles of this blog.