Okay, I have a pot rack and I LOVE IT. It hangs over a wide peninsula that's my plating station when serving food and my pastry station when baking. IOW, no traffic underneath it. At the end of that peninsula I put in a bookcase, and that's where my mixing and salad bowls live.
I'll take a picture and post it for you because I think you'd like what I have. It's very substantial and did not come ready-made with X number of permanent hooks; rather, the outer rim was made to accommodate any number of what at the time they called "meat hooks". I can hang as much stuff up there as I want and I can move the hooks. What the picture I'll show you makes patently clear is that this apparatus is not limited to pots and pans. Every pan up there would qualify as "most often used" (I have a cupboard for the less popular ones), but what that I keep there gets used virtually EVERY day? Two colanders of different types for different purposes, and several strainers.
Not sure how many hooks I have up there but it's more than 12!
Making salad? Grab lettuce out of the fridge and on the way to my mixing station I grab a colander and a salad bowl without ever bending over or opening a cupboard. Making rice? Get rice out of the doorless pantry with my left hand at one end of the kitchen and use my right to grab my fave rice pan and a strainer on my way to the prep sink at the other to measure/rinse. Racks don't just look cool, they greatly improve your efficiency because you never have to open, and dig through, a cabinet--which you can't do one-handed because the pan you want is never on top.
Only one negative about my rack, and it's specific to some racks but not all racks: it hangs from chain, anchored to the ceiling in two places not four so it's susceptible to being a bit lopsided if too many of the heavier pans end up on one side. But it's otherwise quite hurky and industrial which is exactly my speed.
I was very lucky to find it. In this strange little town I live in there used to be a company called Magellan who imported all kinds of stuff to resell to the Williams Sonomas of this world, to name one client. They'd photograph the items for their B2B catalogs then stuff them into a warehouse where, once a year, they'd hold a sale to get rid of that merchandise for peanuts compared to what they'd be go for at retail. And they happened to have one of those sales when I was in the middle of my kitchen design. I paid $50 for this rack--Williams Sonoma sold it for like $800. I recall there were two racks available and the other was quite a bit smaller--I took all the hooks meant for both of them.
I cannot imagine ever being trapped in a conventional kitchen again.
I'll go shoot some pictures.
