This is a great alternative if you do not have enough cabinet space or if you want to display your pots and pans. I have both situations and I love it because I can use my cabinets for other things. I also have a very small kitchen and my pot rack doesnt get in the way.

Great pot rack and it looks great! Only 2 small problems... one of the hooks was defective and would not screw into the ceiling joist and the pot rack really cuts down on the lighting (we have can lights in the ceiling and when I cook it is a little darker due to the shadow from the rack and pans). I contacted Old Dutch about the defective hook and they immediately sent a new hook and they were very personable. Other than those 2 things it looks great in our kitchen, I love having my pots and pans at my finger tips instead of crammed in a cuppard. We have received a ton of compliments!

This is a fantastic product and at a fraction of the price of the similiar William & Sonoma product. We first purchased the Black version of this Pot Rack and quickly sent it back. The chrome is much more visually appealing in a kitchen compared to the Black. At first I thought that the chrome would be too tacky, but once you hang all the pots, it actually accentuates your pot ware. One thing you have to know is this item requires a high ceiling. Our kitchen could not accommodate the included chains at all. We had to drive the provided hooks into the ceiling studs as far as possible and then hook the pot rack by it's frame, so that it hung just above head level. This is the ONLY way you will be able to hang your pot rack without it hanging so low when your ceiling is standard height. Using this configuration, the measurement from ceiling to lowest base of the pot rack is 17.5", now you do the math for your own kitchen. If your ceiling is higher, than you can use the included chains to control the overhang height of this pot rack.
Overall, my wife an I are VERY happy with this product. Only wished it came with more pot hooks, but we were able to find some similar hooks at Home Depot. I would have given this product 5 stars if it wasn't for the fact that the vertical frame is a bit too long for standard ceilings.

Easy to Assemble. Has two types of hooks for pots, pans and lids. Also a rack for a large two handled Pot. Attractive and functional. What more could you ask for? One caution though, you may want to to get a helper when you attach it to the ceiling as it's heavy. In order to center mine, I had to build a wooden ceiling mount to attach the hooks. They (the hooks)are on 16" centers but if the joists don't line up over the area you want to hang it, you may need to do something similar.

The pieces of this product were bent just enough to make it really really hard to put together. I mean, really hard -- like if you have soft typist hands like I do, you'll want to wear gloves or make your husband do it! I didn't think of that till after my hands were already scraped up from the powdercoat finish. Which, by the way, is ugly and scratches off in two seconds flat. The screws and bolts included were big but poor quality (some had metal scrap stuck all over them which I couldn't remove, and some were apparently not finished correctly because the place where you put the screwdriver wasn't deep enough to keep it in place). The instructions are terrible! The tiny blurry diagram of how it all goes together makes sense, but there are a couple of errors on it which you will eventually figure out (pay attention to the photo on this page for help). The wire grate doesn't go all the way to the edge of the corners so smaller things you put up there will fall out, and it's unfinished so those things that do fall through might get stuck on the pokey wires. I don't think it's worth even the drastically reduced sale price, but I DO think it's sturdy. To sum it up: heavy-duty, poor craftsmanship.