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Organizing Your Kitchen So You Can
Store More in a Small Kitchen
By Karen
Porter,
Editor
EasyHomeOrganizing.com
Organizing
your kitchen with these products and tips can make your small kitchen seem
bigger. And you won't have to cram stuff inside your kitchen cabinets and
drawers. This is just a small sample of hidden storage space in your kitchen and
how to use it.
UNDERNEATH KITCHEN CABINETS
Attach cup racks or
stemware racks to the
underside of kitchen cabinets. This will free the space you're currently using
in that kitchen cup cabinet for something else. Stemracks hold stemware such as
wineglasses bottoms up by the stem. You probably see these frequently in
restaurants over the bars but don't really notice them. You can find a stemware
rack for your home that will hold as few as perhaps nine glasses or get one that
holds more. Or place two or three small stemware racks side-by-side to hold more
stemware. A sliding mug rag attached beneath a kitchen cabinet can hold about 10
mugs in a straight slim line. Mugs hang from the rack hooks by their handles.
INSIDE KITCHEN CABINETS
Use portable shelving inside kitchen cabinets on the existing shelves. Typical
kitchen shelf
organizers are white plastic coated wire portable shelves. They're
usually rectangular or designed to fit in the corner of your kitchen cabinet.
The corner shelves can hold dinner plates and saucers. The rectangular ones are
great for holding bowls, cups or cans. Put one row of items on top of the shelf
and one row underneath it on your permanent shelf. Kitchen shelf organizers
double the space of a single shelf in your cabinet. You may have to adjust your
existing kitchen shelves to appropriately fit the portable ones. But in the end,
it's worth it.
CEILING SPACE
Hang your pots from a ceiling pot
rack. This will free kitchen cabinet space. Ceiling pot racks come in
straight bar shapes or you can get a multidimensional one that is a square,
circle or another shape. Don't place the pot rack too close to the stove if
you're worried about grease splashes staining it.
Suspend a chain horizontally at a height well above head level (so family
members don't walk into it.). Fasten each end of the chain securely to ceiling
studs. Then spread S hooks throughout the rungs. Hang
wicker baskets from
the S hooks. Not only will this look decorative but you can keep handy and store
all kind of stuff inside the baskets.
WALL MOUNT IT
Install a simple peg rack on the wall horizontally. Hang all of your potholders
and cooking mitts from the pegs.
Wooden Peg Rack
Buy a wall-mounted magnetic knife rack. If you're currently using a knife block
on your kitchen counter, this will free that counter space.
Magnetic wall knife
holders are stainless steel magnetic strips. When you hang it horizontally on
your kitchen wall, it should be less than two feet wide. You can use it to hold
other metal kitchen utensils or instruments too.
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