Dealing with extra deep drawers

Four of the eight drawers in my new kitchen are pot drawers. Super deep, not terribly useful, pot drawers. If I used them as intended, it would mean that half of my available drawers were being used to hold three pots and our food storage containers. This just doesn't work if you also have lots of smaller kitchen implements that you use on a daily basis.

Luckily D is a master with cardboard and a glue gun, so we pulled everything out that we wanted available and he corralled it all into triple layer storage. It is roughly arranged so that the items we use most often are closest to the top. You have to remove each layer in order to get down to the next, of course, but it is absolutely the best solution for us.

{1st level}

{2nd level}

{3rd level}

He made custom inserts for our shallow drawers as well, which makes a world of difference in keeping everything easy to access. You'd think cardboard wouldn't be strong enough but we know it holds up because he did this for our last kitchen as well. There are major advantages to living with an architect. All those model building skills you suffer to learn really do have practical applications.