kitchen organization
Crocks of utensils, trays and platters to corral small utensils, cooking necessities (I like/covet the opaque olive oil cruet. If we still have that one of Aunt Bea's, we should press it into use.) I could use some of my oval china trays for putting the creamer/sugar on them, sandwich trays, etc. Also -- What if we put the bread-cutting-board up on the back of the wall? Plus, the kitchen is pretty, and looks like ours, somewhat.
Use the HECK out of the backsplash! Make it ALL pegboard, baby!
When we put the grainmill in, we can use the C-clamps for towel hooks! Great idea!
Here's what it looks like with the pots and pans hanging on the wall beside the stove. Alternatively, I could hang a bar from the ceiling (making sure it is well secured, of course), and hang skinny pans and skillets from hooks from it.
One could use the 12" cabinet, and have pegboard right in the middle. Then, things could hang on either side of the pegboard.
This is how the aluminum pegboard looks in a kitchen.
Could use the 12" cabinets for vertical storage.
Good use for a narrow spot!
Could do something like this in the space between the pantry and the fridge, and hang the dustpan, broom, etc.
pegboard in the drawers, to keep the plates and bowls from sliding around
Aluminum pegboard would reflect light onto work area, and it's sparkly.
No reason a pegboard has to be boring and ugly. Consider some gorgeous paper from someplace like that place by the Organic Market in Severna Park, or Art Things -- especially if it is sparkly and has fish and/or birds on it.
pegboard INSIDE a drawer! BRILLIANT!
The fridge chalkboard panel is framed -- makes it look sharp, and more finished.
Cool use of the tray. It takes it from merely decorative, to functional. I could do that with my tray from Grandmom.
Chalkboard panels on refrigerator: We can write what is in there, and erase, as we use it up. We could also have a list of what we need, somewhere on the fridge. For example, on the freezer side: "chicken broth 5/18/13 III" "Frozen vegetables: 1 peas, 2 corn, 1 green beans, 1 okra, 2 French fries".
clever way to use skinny spot: to hold thin things, vertically
This is one hard-working room! Cool pot lid solution. I like the perforations in the sides of the drawers, so one can put rods anywhere to partition areas.
Could do a 24" deep, horizontal cabinet, or three on top of one another, perhaps.
Excellent idea! I hope we can incorporate it!
This is exactly what I want to do with the corner cabinet: multiple height shelves, criss-crossing, to maximize capacity and versatility for storing things of various heights.
A. Nice LIGHTS on each shelf! Excellent idea! B. I like those little lazy Susans. C. I like the door hinge things that pull over to the side. We could do this beside the fridge, possibly.
This is just a sort of thing you can get at Home Depot or Lowe's. Very handy, and well laid out.
Drawers in the pantry? Oh, wouldn't this be loverly!
Consider installing rails, screwed into the studs, above the space made by the upside-down "T"/flange in the vent hood. Hang hooks on the rails; hang stuff: utensils, lightweight pans like the crepe pan, etc. from those rails. Alternatively, screw pull-out racks into the side of that cabinet next to the vent hood, and put things that won't get damaged by the heat in/on that rack.
Having the shallow, pull-out cabinet drawers for the stacks of plates, glasses, etc. seems very efficient. It would be a good idea to get out all the stacks of bowls and plates, arrange them in a rectangle the size of the would-be drawer or tray, and measure their height.
Toe kick drawers! YES! How many ways could I use this? Let me see . . .
I would love to have something like this. It seems like such a great idea.
The use of bars with hanging utensils, the tray to corral olive oil, salt and pepper, etc.
Activities can be enclosed in stations behind closed doors. Ikea wall oven cabinets could be employed, with a large tile inserted as the worktop, in the space the oven would occupy.
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