How to Organize Kitchen Cabinets

Create a kitchen you can be proud of--one where you don't have to spend 30 minutes trying to find what you're looking for. An organized kitchen will make you an even better cook! Read on to learn more.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Contact paper
• Wall shelf with hooks
• Storage pantry
• Organizer for silverware

1. Remove all the dishes from your kitchen cabinets and sort them into separate piles: storage containers, glasses, coffee cups, plates and saucers, soup bowls, silverware, lids, big mixing bowls and casserole dishes, pots and pans, spices, food and medicine.

2. Wipe your kitchen cabinets out then line the shelves with contact paper.

3. Place all your spices on the bottom shelf in one cabinet near the stove. This makes it more convenient when you're cooking. Put all your medicine on the top shelf in that same cabinet.

4. Set plates on the bottom shelf to one side in another cabinet. Next to the plates, add the saucers. Place all soup bowls on the top shelf above the plates and saucers.

5. Stack your storage containers, then place them in a cabinet of their own. If you're like me, you have several storage containers; so it may take one whole cabinet to store them all.

6. Position all your glasses with the end you drink out of facing down in another empty cabinet. Put all the breakable glasses on the bottom shelf and all plastic glasses on the top.

7. Invest in enough wall shelves with hooks to hang your coffee cups on. For example, if you have ten coffee cups, and the wall shelves you like only have five hooks, then you'll need to purchase two shelves to hold all your coffee cups. Hang the shelves side-by-side along your wall. Wall shelves also have space on top for your trinkets.

8. Gather your big mixing bowls and casserole dishes. Place the big mixing bowls on one shelf and the casserole dishes on another.

9. Invest in a storage pantry to hold your food items.

10. Place all your pots and pans in a cabinet of their own, just as you did with the storage containers.

11. Purchase an organizer that will fit inside the top drawer of your cabinet for all your silverware. Arrange the silver in the organizer.

12. Put all the lids in the biggest drawer on your cabinet. If you have another drawer, then you could put all the storage containers lids in one drawer and all the lids to your pots and pans in the other. Now you should be one happy and organized cook!