How to Install a Pot Rack Over a Raised Bar Island

Raised bar islands typically consist of a worktop with an adjacent, slightly more elevated bar. Friends or family sit at the bar and mingle while the host or hostess prepares food on the worktop, which often include stovetops and sinks. Make utensils for preparing food at the island station more readily accessible by installing a pot rack above the worktop. In addition to putting cooking tools at a handy reach, a pot rack saves space otherwise taken up in cupboards and adds a rustic look to the kitchen.

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Instructions

- 1
  Measure from the walls to each corner of the worktop. Use the same measurements to mark the corner points of the island on the ceiling. These guidelines will ensure the pot rack is centered.
- 2
  Scan the ceiling within the worktop corner marks. Delineate the axes of the ceiling joists with a pencil.
- 3
  Hold the pot rack temporarily in place on the ceiling. Center the pot rack within the corner marks while lining up the screw holes with the ceiling joists. Mark the screw holes. Move the pot rack away.
- 4
  Drill pilot holes in the ceiling, into the joists. Use a drill bit with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the pot rack ceiling hooks.
- 5
  Twist the pot rack ceiling hooks into the pilot holes in the ceiling to secure the pot rack in place.
- 6
  Raise or lower the pot rack with the hanging chains to a height where hanging utensils will be at hand but not hanging at a level where they will be in the way of the headspace. Link the corresponding pot rack’s chain link onto the ceiling hook.

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