Kitchen storage
Dry goods and the food pantry. To answer my sister's question: Yes, if you have a pantry, put all your food there! Don't spread it out in wall cabinets just because you have empty cabinets! Walking around opening doors looking for things you can't find is one of the most annoying and frustrating things, and often keeps people from enjoying cooking. Less-used spices and sauces can go into the pantry, but put the items you use more often close to the stove. If you're a baker, and you have the space, carve out a spot just for baking items like sugar, flour, etc. I have a client who truly has a sprinkle drawer!
6. Casserole dishes and small appliances. These items are ideally stored in cabinets that have roll-outs for easier access. Tupperware is another topic. if you have a blind corner or lazy susan cabinet, use that for heavier items like small appliances — light-weight items tend to get stuck and fall all over the place. Tupperware is best in drawers. (Have you ever opened up a wall cabinet and had it topple on your head? Exactly). I like the light inside, too.
Thank goodness for pot racks. If you have a smaller kitchen, or a kitchen that just didn't come with any wide cabinets with roll-outs, a pot rack is the perfect answer. It can be a ceiling pot rack or a wall mounted bar style or shelf style one. The addition of this one accessory will free up so much storage in your kitchen.
Use a cabinet door. Wall mounted spice shelves are terrific and are available from most cabinet manufacturers. They also can be done in an existing kitchen cabinet. When storing spices I prefer not to have a cabinet too deep; things get lost. This solves that problem: Shelves are shallower to allow for the door mount spice holder. Rev-a-Shelf makes something similar to the one we see here. Tip: If you want to install something like this in an existing kitchen, measure the depth of your spice holder and hardware and cut down your shelves by that amount to make everything fit.
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