Hello!
First April post today and I was wondering how many of you are doing their spring cleaning around the house. I made a short list on how to de-clutter your kitchen. This will help you keep an organized kitchen without unused stuff. Here are some basic tips to get your cabinets and drawers clean and organized :)
The very first step is to look in your cabinets and get rid of unused things. You should keep things that you will use and get rid of things which were unused for the past 6 months or older.
This is a great way to start off with more useful space to organize your storage boxes. Also, it is a good excuse to treat yourself to new kitchen tools.
Second step is to determine where to store your stuff and why. Example store your pots and pans close enough to your oven so you will get them quickly and easily while cooking your meal. The idea is to create ''zones''. You can organize your stuff according to their use. While you are baking, you may need the electric mixer, so you can just go to the baking stuff cabinet. You will find everything in one place. You can create space for everything and do your best to keep that way. Also this will do with your plates and bowls, obviously.
Food storage is very important in the kitchen so you will need to consider using boxes and jars to store cereal, pasta and cookies for example. Today you can buy cheap plastic boxes which can prevent food from losing its crunchiness. Also, when storing spices you can find small glass bottles which you can label. In this way you are avoiding clutter of different kinds of containers while having neat and organized storage.
Another tip for your pantry is that you store serving pieces and/or appliances higher than those things you frequently use so it would be more practical to reach.
Organize your cabinet with boxes and lids separately. Store lids together because they have similar shaped and boxes in each other. In this way you will save space and might even free another shelf for some other purpose. Store baking dishes in each other according to their size so you will find what you need much more quickly and easily.
How many of you put pieces of paper on the fridge? No more clutter! An idea how to avoid an eyesore is to choose a cabinet which is at eye level and mount a cork board to pin pieces of paper of your to-do list and recipes on the inside of the cabinet. An alternative to this, you can find magnetic paint so you can use magnet instead of pinning.
Chopping boards! You can have multiple ones depending on what you're cutting or your only wood bulky board. You can invest in a small shelf for the inside of your cabinet to store your cutting boards on the inside.
This is a very convenient way to keep the boards into place.
There are loads more of great storage ideas. Here I mentioned only few and maybe the most effective :) If you will ever consider doing some of these, you will definitely enjoy your time cooking in a clean and organized kitchen :)
I hope this list was useful!
Enjoy!
Love,
Ciklemfusa
xx
