Kitchen Storage Shelves

There’s a place for everything, so the saying goes, but in your case you need more kitchen storage shelves to put the items in place! You look at your kitchen and it seems that they have run amok with things stacked one on top of another, until you can’t find anything! Help!

If this sounds like you, here are some tips for getting your kitchen whipped into shape.

Is Cooking a Hassle?

When your kitchen is disorganized, it’s hard to enjoy cooking. Between trying to find a spot on the counter to digging in a cabinet to find the pan you know if hiding in there, it’s too much of a chore. Time to get pizza delivered!

You can’t subsist on pizza, though, and you (and your family) deserve nourishing meals. So de-clutter the counters and enjoy cooking once more! But…how can you de-clutter and reorganize your kitchen storage shelves and pantry?

Tip One: Find Out What’s in the Kitchen

The first step to organizing is finding out what is lurking in all your cabinets, on shelves and in the cupboard. Yes indeed, time to take it all out and throw it all out! OK, I’m exaggerating with the throw it all out, but the point it this: if you haven’t used it in two years, maybe it’s time to part ways.

Once you have everything out, make three piles; one to keep, one to sell or give away and one that goes in the trash bin. Be ruthless; if you don’t use it and it’s in good condition, give it to someone who can use it. Throw it out if it’s no good at all (like canned food that is suspect due to age).

Tip Two: Group Items Logically in Kitchen Storage Shelves

You know how you cook and what you eat most often, so now it’s time to group your pots, pans, dishes, glasses and food in logical ways. You have room in your kitchen storage shelves and cabinets now, and you don’t have to put things back where they were, if it doesn’t make sense.

Items that you use often should be easy to get at. Items used less often or perhaps only around holidays can go on kitchen storage shelves that are a bit harder to get at.

Tip Three: Clean off the Countertops

Now that you have more storage room in your kitchen cabinets, it’s time to get what’s on your countertops into other places. For example, maybe you have a breadmaking machine on the counter that you use rarely (but that you do use). Find a spot on the kitchen storage shelves and store it away.

If your countertops are perennially cluttered, you don’t realize how much harder it makes to get and keep things clean. Not to mention the extra work it takes to keep moving things around (once you can find them that is).

Your kitchen storage shelves and cabinets are tools for you to use to de-clutter your space. Now get out to the kitchen and get organized!