I added this oven tray to our kitchen

Who doesn’t like more counter top space?

Nobody, that’s who. I saw something similar to this tray online and thought, genius! Within minutes, I was out in the garage searching through scrap wood and figuring out dimensions for my oven tray.

It’s literally 8 pieces of wood, cut to the approximate depth and width of my oven.

I attached the pieces with wood glue and nails, then sanded until smooth.

Left over stain and paint gave my oven tray a rustic look. I thought about painting it a solid color, but went for a 2 tone painted center and stained sides instead.

I sanded the oven tray again after the paint and stain dried.

Attaching simple black metal handles to the sides makes the oven tray easy to move around.

I love a good high contrast white stencil on wood, so I dug out a Mandela stencil I had in the craft pile and added it to the center of the oven tray. I sanded the Mandela stencil when it was dry too,I don’t like things looking too perfect.