10 Clever Storage Ideas For The Entire Kitchen
If you have limited kitchen space or you’re just in need of some reorganization, getting creative with your kitchen storage is a great way to make the best use of your space and keep all your essentials within reach. Whether you have a large space or a smaller one, here are 10 clever kitchen storage ideas that can be useful.
1. Save Space In The Kitchen With Over-Cabinet-Door Organizers
Cabinets can keep all your items hidden and stored away in your kitchen, but if you have too much inside it can become cluttered. Disorganized cabinets can make it difficult for you to find what you’re looking for when you’re cooking or cleaning, causing an unneeded stressful situation.
If you find yourself running out of room in your kitchen cabinets or if everything falls out onto the floor every time you open the cabinet, over-the-door organizers can be a huge life saver.
Over-cabinet-door organizers are a convenient and clever way to save space while simultaneously adding more storage compartments to your cabinets. These types of organizers can be used for a variety of items such as lids to pots and pans, cleaning supplies, boxes of sandwich bags or other kitchen necessities, spices, baking supplies, and much more.
Cabinet door organizers can clear up space inside your cabinet for other storage bins and baskets that will further organize your items.
2. Use Slim Drawers For Extra Storage In Small Kitchens
Small kitchens have a limited amount of cabinets and very little free space. Finding enough storage space in small kitchens can sometimes be a challenge, especially if you want your kitchen to look sleek and clean.
If you’re looking for a way to keep your kitchen organized without sacrificing precious space, slim storage drawers will become your best friend.
Slim drawers and cabinets are a practical and clever storage idea for the kitchen because they can hold a plethora of food and other items without taking up too much room. Use them to hold cans of food, baking supplies, cleaning supplies, containers of coffee, and other kitchen essentials.
Slide a set of slim drawers in the small space between cabinets, next to your fridge, or in any narrow space throughout your kitchen.
3. Keep Pots And Pans Organized With Storage Racks
With so many pots and pans to cook with, your cabinets can become overloaded. Some cabinets are so full that pots come flying out as soon as you open the door.
If there’s no rhyme or reason to your pots and pans, it’s more difficult to find what you’re looking for. That’s why storage racks are so handy.
Slide your cooking pans into storage racks within your cabinet so they are easy to see and easy to reach. Hang your pots on over-the-door cabinet racks or stack them by using scratch resistant pan separators.
Additionally, if you are always losing track of lids for your pots and pans, neatly organize them with an over-the-door cabinet rack.
4. Store Your Plates Vertically To Conserve Cabinet Space
It’s easy to quickly run out of room in your cabinets if you have a lot of plates and dishes. Sometimes you find yourself having to choose which dishes to keep for daily use and which to store away somewhere else.
Instead of having to put your extra plates in random areas or on unreachable shelves of your cabinets, opt to store them vertically instead to free up more room.
Storage racks and bins can make it easy to store your dishes vertically. There are racks specifically made for storing plates vertically, but you can also be creative and use other type of storage racks and bins. For instance, you can use a compact cabinet lid organizer or a small dish drying rack.
It’s best to store your biggest plates vertically, seeing as they take up the most room in your cabinet. You can also choose to store bowls vertically in a similar fashion.
5. Hang Shelves On Kitchen Walls To Clear Up Counter-Top Space
You don’t want your kitchen counters to be too cluttered but you also want to keep your essentials within reach while cooking.
Clear up some much needed counter-top space in your kitchen by placing items on hanging wall shelves. This also helps to assure that your kitchen will maintain a nice, decorative feel.
Wall shelves are not only a great way to save space but they can also add a nice decorative touch to any kitchen. Find unique shelves that match your current theme, whether it be farmhouse, modern, vintage, country, or any other style that matches your home’s aesthetic.
Store a variety of kitchen essentials on these shelves such as spices and seasonings, dishes, cooking utensils, and more. Intersperse these essentials with small accents to add even more to the decorative aesthetic.
6. Add Drawers And Baskets To Your Refrigerator To Stay Organized
Whether you have a large family that consumes a lot of food, or just a smaller sized fridge, you probably run into the struggle of have a full and disorganized fridge at all times.
But even if you have a lot of food in your fridge, there are ways to stay organized. Keep your fridge neat and tidy by using storage bins and drawers to hold all of your food items.
Adding bins and drawers can help you conserve space in the fridge and help you easily find what you’re looking for. The addition of drawers or bins can be useful to hold meat and cheese, fruits and vegetables, or more fragile items such as eggs.
You can even designate certain storage bins to hold your leftover meals and food items so they don’t get lost in the back of your fridge and go bad.
7. Store Your Coffee Mugs In A Decorative Way
If you’re an avid coffee drinker, you have probably built up an impressive mug collection that seems to keep on growing and no longer fits in your cabinets.
When you have that many coffee mugs, you have to get creative with ways to store them. Since they won’t all fit in your cabinets, store them in plain view instead, but in a decorative way.
Choose your favorite mugs and hang them on display when you’re not using them. Hang them on a decorative wall rack, on a cup carousel with your coffee pods, or on a extendable rack that hangs down from your cabinets.
If you are feeling extra committed, consider creating your own small coffee bar in your kitchen with the use of a rolling cart or the addition of a small table or cabinet. This will give you a whole separate area to store your mugs, coffee maker, and your other coffee essentials.
8. Keep Your Spices And Food Cans In Baskets Or Racks To Reduce Clutter
Food cans and spices can take up a lot of space in cabinets and can also become disorganized and lost among other things that you store in the cabinet.
Using small bins, baskets, and racks is a great way to store your cans and spices in a neat and organized fashion.
Adding these types of storage racks doesn’t have to take up that much space. Opt for slim spice racks or cabinet door storage racks. Stack soup cans and other food cans on top of each other with the use of special can organizers or small storage bins.
If you have counter-top space, you can also store your spices on a decorative revolving spice rack as a nice and accessible display.
9. Place Drawers Inside Your Cabinet To Store Cleaning Supplies
If you store your cleaning supplies in the cabinet underneath your kitchen sink, you may have experienced the struggle of searching around for that one bottle of cleaning spray you need.
You don’t need to worry ever again about finding your cleaning supplies. Simply use drawer baskets to organize and sort your cleaning supplies so you’ll always be able to find everything you need with ease.
Sort your cleaning sprays, soaps, and brushes in a 2-tiered drawer in your cabinet, or in a clear compact bucket so you can see everything inside. Organizing your kitchen cleaning supplies neatly inside your cabinet will help you keep it out of sight but still easily accessible.
Choosing a rolling storage bin or storage shelves will wheels will make it even easier to take out of your cabinet when you need it.
10. Use Decorative Baskets And Containers For Subtle Counter-Top Storage
If you enjoy keeping a specific aesthetic in your kitchen and don’t want to ruin it with mismatched storage containers, there is a way to satisfy your needs.
You can discreetly store things on top of your counters by using decorative baskets, bins, and containers.
Keep your cookbooks in a graphic printed basket, place your cooking tools in a uniquely designed utensil holder, store your fruits in rustic bins, and keep other necessities in other containers that match your kitchen’s decor theme.
There are so many types of baskets and bins to choose from that will coordinate well with your current decor. Whether it be a rustic theme with galvanized metal bins, a country theme with woven baskets, or a modern theme with quirky phrases and sentiments, there are many ways to be subtle with your storage on your counter-tops.
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