Tuesday, June 10, 2008

It's Amazing what a few Baskets and Bins will do...

I have been working on organizing my kitchen cupboards and drawers and have a found a few things that have been really helpful
This is my "baking" cupboard. It used to be impossible to reach anything on the top shelf without pulling over the step stool and rifling through everything on the shelf. Now I can simply pull down the whole bin, get what I need and replace it without having to ever bother with the stepstool - and it looks so much neater too. I have also loved the addition of my baking basket on the middle shelf. I put all of the commonly used baking items (salt, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, etc.) in it, and now when I am baking I can just pull down one basket and I have most of the little boxes and bottles that I need for any recipe. I wish I had purchased a lazy susan for the bottom shelf, rather than the riser rack. I can see my spices now, but it is still hard to get to them. I think a lazy susan would have been much easier.
This drawer used to be a jumbled mess. I just added one bin to keep all of the smaller items corralled and suddenly the drawer is neat and easy to deal with.
This drawer used to be a mess too. I found an expandable utensil tray and separated all of my cooking utensils into the different compartments. It is so much easier now to find everything, and to put everything away after washing, due to the fact that I can actually get the door closed now without a whole lot of pushing and shoving.
This is under my sink, an area which I think is notoriously "icky" in most houses. I just put all of my cleaning supplies that I use most often in the bin in front and it keeps them in place. I installed child-proof latches on this cupboard to ensure that my little ones can't get to the cleaning supplies.

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