Lakeland is usually worth a look?
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/23098/4-Tier-Over-Door-Storage-Rack
Wilko?
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-over-door-rack/p/0437087?nst=0&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuafdBRDmARIsAPpBmVXC6o5cveVE39ooQR2GDKs9Be5EehMtsar36Vv-LY5WKu6nmB16OnAaArHxEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Maybe worth a look through Nisbets as well for different ideas/approaches? I have catering shelves in my storeroom/brewery from them and they're ace.
https://www.nisbets.co.uk/kitchenware-and-knives/kitchen-storage-and-shelving/_/a33-2
Hi. Thanks for the ideas. I'd been to Lakeland, and Wilko. (And Argos... basically I ended up Googling "over door shelves" and several similar terms.) What I keep getting is relatively flimsy units or ones that are not deep enough to put at least a can of soup in. They seem to be more geared to spices and things like cling film. I can get my "old" unit sent over from the states for about 45 pounds from Amazon.com, and so far that seems the most likely one to buy if I'm going pre-made. But I'm still a-lookin!
I'm going to look at Nisbets shortly - a quick glance was interesting! My problem is that I have very little floor space in which to put the shelves. They need to hang off the kitchen door or attach to my Ikea unit (there's about 6 ft tall x 3.5 ft wide by 7 inches deep of wasted space there that would be fine for storing cans of soup and jars of stuff I've put up that I don't need to get to quickly. I'm leaning towards trying to build something and attach it to the Ikea, as that way when I need something from the rack I can just close the kitchen door (which is currently propped open and coming up against the Ikea shelves that are next to it). There is a strange baseboard in most of my flat - I assume it's where they ran all the pipes and electricals. I think this building once-upon-a-time had a central boiler, as there is a chimney at one end of the building and none of these flats have fireplaces. It was an old government building at one point, so I am betting there was a boiler that fed all the separate rooms. Now each flat has a combi-boiler and the wonky baseboards. Which are about six inches high and stick out from the wall several inches. So normal shelves can't fit flush up against the wall. They are good and sturdy, though. I had considered going to B&Q and having some stock lumber cut and frame out some very narrow shelves that I could nail/glue together and just sit on that baseboard. It's wide enough to handle soup cans or small plants, or some decorative tchotskys (sp?). Would have to paint it, though. All together that brings the price back up to close to the original send-from-the-USA shelves.
The Daughter had a stroke of genius when we bought the Ikea stuff. Since it is the shelving that you use pegs in the uprights to sit the shelves on, she just measured the baseboard and then put the back uprights' pegs in an equivalent distance lower. The back legs sit up on the baseboard and the front are on the floor. And the shelves are perfectly level, and flush against the wall. Our trash and recycling containers fit neatly under the bottom shelf, and we have flour jars on the top shelf so the extra bit of wood from the uprights isn't visable. She's really good at stuff like that, thankfully! If I had more floor space, I'd just get more of those units.
I know Ikea makes wire baskets to hang off some of their other units. I'm going to have to see if maybe the bit that hooks onto the main unit can be bent or otherwise made to attach to the wooden unit I have now. It would only give me three baskets to work with, but that's better than nothing. Unless I attached more underneath to like hang like an old-style macrame potted plant holder using some lightweight chain or something. Since it wouldn't be subject to movement if it was attached to the existing shelving (as opposed to hanging off the back of the door) that might be a way to go as well. And since it's all basically behind the open door, it's not particularly visable, so it can be ugly as sin.
I might just have B&Q cut that stock and make sort of a rectangle frame out of it. the basic dimensions of the Ikea unit. Then put in cross-pieces as shelves and slide the whole thing in behind the door. I'd have to secure it to the Ikea shelves, probably with cable-ties, just to make sure it didn't ever wobble when fully loaded. That might be the easiest and cheapest way to go.
hmmmmm. I really regret having left all my tools behind. I had a box of hand tools that was supposed to get loaded into the crate, but they apparently got put in the donation pile. I ~really~ miss my electric drill/screwdriver!
