'Genius': Kiwi woman uses budget items from Kmart, Mitre 10 to create 'stunning' kitchen rack

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Bookmark this one for this weekend's DIY project. Photo credit: Facebook/Michelle Bayley.

If you've ever had the perfect hanging kitchen rack featured on your 'dream kitchen' Pinterest board but you've always thought it would be too expensive to install, this one's for you.  

A Kiwi woman has shared her easy hack for creating a kitchen centrepiece that looks like it retails for thousands using budget items from Kmart and Mitre 10. 

Posting in Facebook group 'Kmart & The Warehouse Hacks & Decor NZ', Levin woman Michelle Bayley revealed she used a $16 Kmart shelf, $10 Mitre 10 chain and a pack of hooks to create the rack, writing that even she couldn't "believe how awesome it turned out".

"It might give another mama wanting to do something similar some ideas, [if they] didn't really know where to start."

'Genius': Kiwi woman uses budget items from Kmart, Mitre 10 to create 'stunning' kitchen rack
Photo credit: Facebook/Michelle Bayley.

Screwing hooks into her ceiling, she hung the shelf from the sections of chain above the corner of her kitchen bench.

She then used a series of 'S hooks' from her local craft store to hang pots, pans and colanders. 

The stylish and handy result cost a total of less than $50. 

'Genius': Kiwi woman uses budget items from Kmart, Mitre 10 to create 'stunning' kitchen rack
Photo credit: Facebook/Michelle Bayley.

Bayley's post racked up over 2400 likes and 300 comments from other impressed New Zealanders, many of whom said they were planning on trying the trick 

"I love you! I have one of these laying around I didn't wanna throw it as I don't use it... new use for it now," one person wrote. 

"Gorgeous! I always dreamt of having beautiful pots hanging like that! I first need to get some beautiful pots worthy of display unlike my battered set," another wrote. 

"F**king genius!" another praised, while someone else wrote it was "stunning". 

It's not the first Kmart hack to go viral. Last year an Aussie mum created a gorgeous tiny bookstore for her daughter using the Kmart cubby house.