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
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