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Mine (I don't have a lot) sit on edge in an infrequently used cassarole dish. It works, but i like the look of the towel bar.

My mother had the brilliant idea of using a cheap office-supply file sorter. It works perfectly.

We bought the wall holder from IKEA last month, and it's the biggest bang for $3 our kitchen's ever seen. We placed it low on a wall, not in a cabinet, because it would hit the shelves, but works great!

I use a plate rack in the fan cabinet above my stove. It holds a ton of small and large lids in a small space.

http://www.organizeit-online.com/white-plate-rack-p-1226.html?m1track=googlebase&utm_campaign=export_feed&utm_medium=Google Base&utm_source=googlebase&language=en&osCsid=c98062928c6e3c65d04a8b9db94c73b7

I love that towel bar idea.

I live in an apt that has cheap kitchen cabinets, so the cupboard lid organizer is out cause you have to nail or screw it into your cabinet. We have tried something like the wooded peg rack, but the lids would fall/roll out all the time (we now use it for our medal baking pans, much easier).

What we found that works best for lids is a dish rack for drying your dishing. The lids don’t fall out, and is using less space.

I use IKEA racks similar to the ones in the photo. S-hooks hold the pots on it, and I can slip the lids in between the rack & the wall.

the towel bar looks ideal, but doesn't it hit your shelf when you close the door?

We have the Ikea thing, and mounted it on our sink cabinet door, since it's the only cabinet without a shelf inside. It's alright, though the movement of opening and closing the door knocks them off sometimes, and the big lids won't stay on. It also won't hold all of them.

I like the other options, esp the chrome one. it's nice how it slides out.

I have the IKEA rack but don't like it becuase most of my lids are too large for the door on which it's hung or they aren't flat enough to stay on the rack securely when I open and shut the door.
I like the towel bar idea, too. I would have been very skeptical had it not been for the pic showing Le Creuset lids...those are heavy! My biggest challenge in my cramped, pantry-less kitchen is clean storage for pot lids, rimmed baking sheets, and cast iron (I have two dutch ovens and two skillets).

I have the Ikea rack also. It works well enough for my lids. I really like Martha Stewart's idea in the first picture though. Maybe in my next apartment.

You would need to have awfully sturdy cabinet door hinges to remain balanced with the weight of those le creuset lids. My hinges require constant tightening (hate 'em) and this would be a no go for me.

I have an Ikea rack mounted on the end of a cabinet on the left side the sink where lids remain out of the way but in easy reach when needed. Works great. Even better is the one mounted on the end of a cabinet on the right which holds an assortment of cutting boards, again out of the way yet readily accessible.

I have the Ikea rack mounted inside my pantry (yes, I am lucky enough to have a pantry). But it won't hold my 12-inch lids, since they are much more domed than the smaller ones. Luckily I only have 2. My 14-inch lid (biggest pan ever) is with the special-occasion bakeware stuff, since I have never needed to use the lid.

I use the IKEA rack and it works fine for most of my lids. It's on the side of my flimsy cupboards, so all the lids I have are glass (not cast iron, like my Le Creuset). It works splendidly and frees up a lot of cabinet room.

I have the IKEA rack on a short wall next to a window (the pans are hung from a rack on the long wall next to it). It holds three lids and some smaller plates very nicely.

I love my IKEA lid racks. I have 2, one for pot lids and one for the wall of the pantry to hold cookie sheets and my splatter guard. For an investment of $6 I emptied out half a cabinet.

I liked the IKEA one, but it was too tall for my cabinet. Luckily, the Container Store sells one that is shorter (although more expensive, boo!)

http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?searchId=19380464&itemIndex=1&CATID=185&PRODID=60278

Six lids is just enough for me too :)

-Ruth

I got the ikea rack but sadly it didn't fit in our cabinets :(

I have the Ikea one, it fit on my last apartment doors but does not fit on the current ones. So we put it inside of a cupboard (with no shelves inside) against the wall. Works even better! (nothing falling) and there is still lots of room in that cupboard

Solution #1 is so simple! I must try this so my lids stop slipping out of the cabinets and startling the cat every time I open the cabinet door.

I have to confess that one of the reasons I like the All-Clad pots is that the lids slide onto the handles and both can be hung from a rack together.

The office supply file sorter idea above is calling to me. I bet I can make that work...thanks mhirsch

I have the ikea drawers, not the door cabinets... but wondering if the martha idea would work against the inside panel of the drawer.

Holy cow! I have the Ikea pot lid holder and didn't even realize it! Not even sure how I acquired this and for the longest time I had no idea what it was...guess I'll have to dig it out of the basement.

I like this idea! I am always banging the lids around trying to get at a pot! My favorite is the towel rack idea. It may or may not work in my cupboards- time to measure, but if all else fails I have wall space for the Ikea one.

Those Le Creuset pans are amazing! I wish I could afford them!

We have Metro shelving in our kitchen and slot them into the wire shelves - the smaller lids go in front and larger in the back.

I like the idea of the towel bar. That's pretty clever.

But I have to wonder why you don't just turn the lid over in the pot/pan and store it that way? Most sets that come in graduating sizes stack nicely one atop the other. Pot w/ lid, next smaller pot stands on that with the lid turned over and so on.

If you're hanging pots - then I guess you have to find a place for the lid. Luckily, my most recent pot acquistion has a lid with a handle that slides over the pot handle - and that one hangs from a pot rack.