Storage Ideas For Kitchen to Maximise Space
Last year, every member in the house ventured into the kitchen more and stayed there too most of the time.
Well, this year just wanted to make sure the kitchem is still the busiest room in the house but with less chaos.
Here are some of our favourite organisation and storage ideas from our friends at IKEA to help make your mealtimes easier and more enjoyable.
- Open up storage – Keeping crockery and glasses next to the dishwasher and sink makes restocking the shelves a much speedier process.
- Use the walls – Stashing knives on a magnetic rack near your food preparation area is more convenient than having them all mixed up in a drawer.
- Keep everything you need to cook in drawers near the hob, and store the most frequently used items right at the top.
- Stack pans vertically and lids horizontally so you can easily grab the size you need.
- Add wire baskets and plastic containers to keep the contents neat and well-organised in your kitchen cabinets.
- Hanging a drying rack from the wall saves on space and helps the air get to wet crockery.
- Choose different sizes and shapes of containers to suit different sorts of waste, and save on time spent sorting.
- Use a portable trolley to store bulky items, or to wheel everything to the dining table in one go, rather than going back and forth.
- Create a one-stop station of everyday essentials, including crockery, cutlery and napkins.
- Spices are best kept in the dark, so a drawer is the perfect spot to keep them.
- Use transparent boxes and jars for food storage so that it’s easy to see where everything is – and to check what’s running low before you go to the supermarket.
- If your kitchen has deep drawers, use every bit of that height to store jars upright
(Thanks to our friends at IKEA)