One last recent kitchen addition was so simple, I installed it myself the same day Agent Smith and his father took apart and cleaned the clothes washer.
Backstory: the POs at some point installed a swing door right next to the sliding glass doors leading outside from the kitchen. This swing door also opens up to the outside but was installed poorly. It doesn’t seal well and, if not locked, it blows open in heavy winds. In 2016 we had a locksmith change the inside lock from one that required a key to a simple bolt, and since then we’ve pretty much ignored the area.
Across from the swing door was a bare wall with two picture hooks that once held up something or other that belonged to the POs. We were using the hooks to hang the life preserver to keep it out of the harsh summer sun, but it was not the most pleasing or optimal solution.
Enter Amazon once again, and I found a shelf/coat rack that was long enough to fill the space nicely. A spare coathook below the shelf now holds the life preserver.
With some pretty cacti sitting on the shelf and our various hats and a set of binoculars now easy to reach, it was a super easy improvement to an area of the kitchen to which we had paid almost no attention until now.