It seems that in every home we have ever lived in there has been one drawer dedicated to general "stuff" that starts out with good intentions and organization but ends up a mess over time. We have been working on remodeling our home since May so it is a good time to re-think how we use space.
We used to have a large top drawer dedicated to spices on one side of the kitchen but the stove was on the other. We moved the "spice drawer" over to the stove side, trading with the knives which we moved over to the cutting board side. We still really needed more room for spices. The drawer next to the new spice drawer, (okay I actually used two small drawers for all the spices that were previously in a large drawer) was the kitchen junk drawer. A couple of weeks ago I decided to eliminate the kitchen junk drawer to use for our new Indian spices, and other spices.
So now what to do with things like pens and pencils and tape and glue…etc. This morning I had the great idea to covert the cupboard over the phone (which I hadn't organized yet anyway) to the cookbook and mini-offie/phone desk/junk drawer space.
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| The Before: unorganized kitchen cupboard—a result of remodeling and then hurrying to get ready for a Christmas party. |
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| The After—I took what used to be in drawer compartments and put the contents into vertical mini-drawers, an organizer from the hardware section of Fred Meyer. |
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| Kitchen cabinet over phone area. |
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| Our new spice drawer—especially Indian spices. |
