Shopper's $15 Bunnings and Kmart hack to transform kitchen: 'Inspired me'

For the past few months, shoppers have been going wild over a $15 bathroom item from Kmart that they can use to add extra storage in the kitchen. While the retailer’s 3 Tier Floor Caddy is designed to organise toiletries and save floor space in the shower or bathroom, plenty of people have been using them to make a coffee station that’s both aesthetically pleasing and incredibly useful.

It appears the popular hack isn’t going away anytime soon, with one shopper recently revealing how they used a $31 product from Bunnings to take it to the next level. The woman explained in a Facebook group this week that she had used the Flexi Storage Decorative Shelving from the hardware store to connect two of the floor caddies and display plants, containers and coffee utensils on her kitchen bench.

“I bought these floating shelves from Bunnings but after reading the reviews I found that people had said they are not great! And I was too lazy to take them back,” she wrote. “Then I saw this Kmart hack with the shower caddies and I’m very happy with the result.”

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She added in the comments that she initially bought the shelves to install on her kitchen wall, but the negative reviews she read online said they weren’t sturdy enough.

The Bunnings floating shelf is available in five different colours and three sizes, including 600mm for $24.19, 900mm for $31 (which is what she used for her hack) and 1200mm for $39.

'This is genius'

Shoppers were thrilled with the finished result and took to the comments to praise the “incredible” idea, with one person writing: “This looks excellent. Like you, we have a small kitchen with very limited shelving. You’ve inspired me to do the same.”

“Awesome, looks amazing,” another added, while a third commented, “That’s so clever, thanks for sharing”.

“This is genius,” someone else replied, followed by a different user who said, “A great solution”.

Not everyone was impressed, however, with one person saying they thought the coffee station was a “mess”.

“I don’t get coffee stations. Not saying it’s bad. Just think it creates more clutter,” another remarked, to which the shopper replied, “I guess that is true, but in my case my kitchen is not big so it lifts things off the bench top creating more bench space”.

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Meanwhile, if you didn’t want to recreate the hack yourself, shoppers have also used Kmart’s 2 Tier Acacia Serving Stand for $20 to achieve a similar result.

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