My apartment had a very small kitchen, it had a low ceiling, limited cabinet space and only 1 small drawer! My only option to keep my pots-n-pans in the kitchen was a rack on the wall. I found this grid system at The Container Store - and it worked well for the 13 years I lived there. My large stock pot and canning pot were stored in my hall closet, and my 8-qt stock and 12-qt pasta pots lived under the sink. Now that I am in a house I'm not sure what I'm going to do for sure ... but probably something similar but with this steel grid system.