Many people believe the center, or heart, of the home is the kitchen. Like a human heart, keep it clean, healthy and full of love. No one likes cooking or entertaining in a messy, unorganized and stressful kitchen. You can give your kitchen a new life, even reinvigorate your love for cooking (or, perhaps, discover it for the first time), by using our five tips to reorganize your kitchen.
Spectrum Stone Designs, Central Virginia’s leading natural stone fabricator, recommends these five tips to reorganize your kitchen:
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Spectrum Stone Designs, Central Virginia’s leading natural stone fabricator, recommends these five tips to reorganize your kitchen:
- Make the Most of Your Space: If you have a tight kitchen or areas that are hard to reach, worry no more! Add extra space with a Lazy Susan for your spices or the back of that corner cabinet you can never reach. Consider hanging a magnet on the wall above your sink for your cutting knives instead of a knife block. Free up some of your cabinets by hanging a pot rack above your island. There are a variety of sizes to choose from depending on your kitchen needs. Use slide out shelves under the sink for your cleaning supplies. Add shelves or racks within your cabinets to make your pots, pans and lids more accessible and recognizable. Compile all of your home recipes into one file by using page protectors or picture dividers. Your recipes won’t be ruined by messes while cooking! You can also add a retractable book stand for your recipe file, cook book or even an iPad under a shelf close to your stove or prep area.
- Organize Your Cabinets and Shelves: Keep your most used cooking items such as your spatulas, hot pads and other cooking utensils in the areas closest to the stove. Keep your aprons or other highly-flammable items several feet away but within reach. Evaluate your storage; are things grouped by similarity and size or frequency? This includes your pantry!
- DeJunk The Junk Drawer: When was the last time you took an inventory of what was even in that drawer? How old are those batteries? Do any of those pens still work? Use time from your new year to declutter and eliminate any items that no longer work or serve a purpose.
- Designate a Message Center: Is your kitchen the same area where your family leaves notes for each other? Add a message center that includes a dry-erase board for updating your grocery list and chores or sending messages to family members when you have different schedules. You can hang a basket or cork board as well to help save your coupons or mail that still needs to be read.
- Build an Appliance Garage: If your kitchen is also your laundry room, or you like a more uniform look, consider adding an appliance garage. This helps hide additional clutter and just creates a more simple, uniform look for your kitchen. Putting small appliance behind appliance garage doors is a simple and easy way to make your kitchen appear less cluttered.
Spectrum Stone Designs is Lynchburg’s leading fabricator of natural stone countertops, surrounds and tiles for kitchens, fireplaces and baths. Serving Lynchburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville and all of Central Virginia, Spectrum Stone Designs imports top-quality granite, marble and other stone and expertly cuts and polishes before professionally installing in homes or offices. Spectrum Stone Designs strives for excellence in craftsmanship and customer service.
