Keeping the kitchen tidy enhances its function, appearance, and cleanliness - all important factors in this busy room of the home. However, with heavy use, it can sometimes seem a burden to keep the kitchen in tip-top shape if a good organizational system is not in place. Here are some tidy inspirations to get your wheels turning in your own home kitchen:
• 1 This kitchen has a place for everything, including an upper-cabinet-mount computer screen for referencing recipes. Concealed storage keeps things hidden away (we love the obscured glass in the upper cabinet doors).
• 2 These open shelves are kept orderly with bins that sort their contents.
• 3 A longtime favorite of ours, this pantry keeps things at an arm's reach. White keeps things fresh and bright. Don't have a pantry? Try transforming a nearby closet!
• 4 Add free-standing furniture for a wealth of new storage space when you're short on built-in cabinets.
• 5 Full shelves of cookbooks with lots of cookware hanging beneath. Don't overlook space that can be used for storage!
Images: Martha Stewart, Bob Hiemstra/Real Simple, Steve Gross & Sue Daley/Country Living, Miki Duisterhof/House Beautiful, DecorPad
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Comments (5)
The first kitchen is not an actual kitchen at all but a set in Martha Stewart's offices in Chelsea. The obscured glass is actually paper behind clear glass.
Thank you for this! I love how the spices are arranged, and the color-coded books look so nice. It's a beautiful kitchen.
Sloan8: is that first kitchen really a set? I remember seeing it in Martha Stewart magazine, but it was treated as a "real" kitchen. Knowing its a set makes me happier!
~Tanya
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Yes, it is a set and is reconfigured/repainted for various uses. I can't remember for sure, but the sink and drawers may not even be functional.
I like the use of hanging space under bookshelves, but I can't get my head around sorting books by color. If what you want is organized color, why get it from something that's far more useful organized by content? To me, that's sort of like keeping metal measuring spoons with metal pots and pans instead of with the glass measuring cups just because of their materials. Or, I don't know, storing white onions in a bowl with green apples because they're about the same size and shape and have nice color contrast.