It’s one of the most important rooms in your home; a place where family and friends can gather, enjoy food, drinks and make golden memories. For anyone with a smaller kitchen can attest, you sometimes have to be smart about your space, even if it’s just to make it functional. If you need to open up your space in your kitchen, read on!
Use windowsill Surfaces
If you’re fortunate enough to have a windowsill in your kitchen for natural light, you can take its usefulness up a notch by utilizing that surface area for decluttering. Plants and herb gardens are all good, but this is an opportunity to place spices, carafes, kitchen utensils, and anything else that makes sense.
Harder Working Drawers
Do you just have cutlery in your drawers? Trust us, many drawers can hold more than you’d think. Pantry items, baking equipment, spices and all manner of other little things can be organized and accessible to you whenever you need it.
Start Stacking Up
Cans aren’t the only thing you can pile atop one another. Depending on how adventurous you want to go, most items have the capacity to be built up, from inside a cupboard to along your wall. Mason jars also provide a handy (albeit breakable) device to pull this off. To make it safer, most mainstream grocery or retail stores will stock shelf stackers, or under-shelf baskets, to help your organizing all that easier.
Island Time!
Don’t have that dream kitchen island yet? Get your own! Maybe one that can flatten when you require more space, or can lower into a table. There are many different options on the market, for all budgets, to explore. And it’ll provide invaluable preparation space, or a surface for when you have loved ones over to show off your brand new tidy kitchen!