Now THIS is how you organise wine!

I drink wine on occasion, but when I saw this, I thought “THIS is how you organise wine!” This bookcase ladder has a mini bar, with a drawer. Not only is the design simple and sleek, but you can also see your wine inventory. It has a nice rack to hold all the different type of glasses; and, is perfect for a corner of the dining room. There is ample shelving for a few knick knacks (not too many so it doesn’t look cluttered).  Assembly is required and it can be found at Crate and Barrel for under $500.

 

If you would like to learn more about this products, how  to organise your wine collection or dinning areas, call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting past appearances that stream live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas at www.littlemissefficiency.com. Just click on the KLAV link.

 

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Organise All Your Recipes

When you cook in your kitchen, do you spend oodles of time looking for recipes? Are they all over, in different rooms? Well get them organised, all in one place in your kitchen, with this nifty new invention from my friend Joan. It’s called a Recipe Nest ™ and it comes in a zillion, brilliant colors to match any trendy kitchen.

The Recipe Nest stores both full page and magazine clipping recipes. There is a built-in easel so you can display your recipe at just about any angle while you are cooking. The Recipe Nest is made of waterproof vinly, making clean up and cooking mishaps a synch. It stores away neatly, having the best of both worlds of a binder and a box. Plus its dividers keep all your recipes neat and organised. The pockets and clipboard are just icing on the cake of this little kitchen beauty.

So say goodbye to hole punchers and unsightly drawers of disheveled recipe clippings. The Recipe Nest is the wave of the future kitchens. Check out their website at www.reciperelish.com. Since I am an affiliate, you can also order yours through me and receive a discount off the regular price.

If you would like to learn more the Recipe Nest or organising your kitchen’s recipes, call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting live, streaming live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas on the first Thursday of the month, at 1 pm pst at www.klav1230am.com.

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Organising Your Kitchen

 

The kitchen is the heart of every home. Ever notice when you have company over, where everyone gravitates and hangs out? Today an average of 1,092 hours annually are spent in a single home’s kitchen. Needless to say this room puts up with a lot of traffic, making  organisation even more essential.  

Here’s some beginning steps you can take to re-gain organisation in your kitchen:

 

1) Don’t try to overhaul your entire kitchen, at one time. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so your kitchen is not going to be instantly organized in one day. Plus, you will quickly lose momentum and gain frustration by tackling such a big project all at once.

 

2) Think about how you and your family use your kitchen. Is it like a family communication center? Do you run a small catering company out of that kitchen? Carefully consider how your kitchen is currently used and how you would like to see it used. Having more than one activity occurring in the kitchen is just fine. So let’s plan for it.

 

3) Plan for one day to simply purge any and all items in your kitchen that:

-you don’t use

-are broken

-can be donated

-can be discarded

You can do this easily, probably on a Saturday, when you have about four to six hours to go through the kitchen. Make it simple, and just eyeball those items you can get rid of off the top. Remember to just purge, don’t organise just yet. Enlist the family to help!

 

4) Take some graph paper, and roughly draft out your cabinets and drawers. Think about your kitchen traffic, how you cook, and our 2) above, and label each drawer and cabinet for the items you wish to keep in each cabinet and drawer. In doing this, you will learn you may have too much space wasted for one thing, and not enough space for the things that matter.

 

5) When planning out your kitchen in 4) above, remember to keep like items with like items. For example, keep utensils all in one drawer and baking items all in one cabinet. If your cooking pattern starts in the fridge, use the cabinets around the fridge accordingly. For some of us non-cooks, our cooking patterns begin with the microwave, so the drawers and cabinets around the microwave are used accordingly J

 

These are just a few steps to get you organised in the right direction, when it comes to your kitchen. Each kitchen is different, as well as the family and its traffic patterns through the busiest room of the house. Depending on your kitchen’s cabinet and drawer volume, there can be many more steps after this initial five. However, these steps will help you think organisationally if you want to begin tackling a kitchen organisation project.

 

If you have specific questions about your kitchen, these tips, further steps, and/or how you can use these steps in your kitchen, please contact Little Miss Efficiency directly at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com

 

Written by Wendy A. Miller, CEO and Founder of Little Miss Efficiency, wwwlittlemisseffiency.com, 702.673.0624. COPYRIGHT: This article may not be reprinted or quoted anywhere without written permission.  This email is protected by copyright. Copying of this article – or of any works presented or recommended by Wendy A. Miller – is strictly prohibited. These works may not be reprinted in any form on any website, blog, book, ebook, or any other form without the express written permission of Wendy A. Miller. All Rights Reserved.