Recently I worked with a client who has moved into a nice, big home and needed some ideas on how to organize her kitchen.  It’s wonderful to have  a large enough space to move around as well as space to store all your kitchen gadgets and pantry items.  But sometimes having all that space can leave things too spread out, making it difficult to work in your kitchen.  If you are moving into a new home, you can start your kitchen organizing from scratch.  If you are just unhappy with your layout in your current kitchen, then you can still follow these easy steps to organize your kitchen.

1. Go through cupboards and drawers.  Place “like” items together.  Glasses with glasses, spatulas with spatulas, bowls with bowls, etc.  Look at how much you really have.  Can you truly use all that stuff?  Donate the excess and keep it down to what you really need.
2. Be honest with yourself about what you will really still use.  Are you really going to bake bread in a bread machine?  Really going to flip pancakes on a griddle?  Really going to make fresh juice?  If not, pass gadgets on-make someone’s day!
3. Place items together as close to where you will use them as possible.  Do you like to bake?  Then create a baking station, place all your baking items together so you aren’t running all around the kitchen gathering supplies.
4. If you make school/work lunches, place all your plastic bags, lunch sacks and snacks together, again so you aren’t zigzagging around the kitchen.

Organizing your kitchen is worth it to make the task of making meals and baking just that much easier!

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