This time of year has me motivated to organize my life a bit.
So I started in my kitchen. Here’s what I do to try to help the heart of my home run more smoothly…
So I started in my kitchen. Here’s what I do to try to help the heart of my home run more smoothly…
First, I love to use containers of all kinds to store things…
I use tupperware for storage of my flour, sugar & oats. Keeping measuring, and leveling tools in the containers is so handy! (I dream one day of having a drawer installed in my kitchen for each of these things, just like my grandma’s old farm house.)
I love using old jars to store pantry items.
For easy organizing I labeled my jars with chalkboard stickers
And of course, you have to make things look pretty, so I decorated my jars. Seems kinda silly, but whatever makes me happy right?!
I like to use bins to store miscellaneous bagged items & potatoes & onions. I just learned that potatoes and onions should be kept separate, or your potatoes will turn green! huh.
I also make sure I’m stocked up on great cleaners. I’m a bit of a cleaning freak.
I installed wire dividers in my cupboards for my baking sheets. Saved my life. Ok, maybe not that dramatic, but there were many bad words uttered before these were installed, and pans flew out when the door opened!
I use a great recipe filing system. At least, it works for me.
And secured my tea towels to stop them from ending up on the floor. I take a tiny bit of pleasure out of watching my toddler try to get these off! ha ha
My aprons are within easy reach on the hooks in my pantry
I use a lazy susan in my pantry to easily find my staples.
Using a placemat under drippy bottles, saves me cleaning time.
And lastly, I like to keep my essentials handy! And my coffee is essential! Especially on days like today. Tired momma.
There is so much more that I could do, but organizing is an ever evolving and changing task. I will clean and organize something one day, and the next day it’s crazy again. But that’s life, and I do what works for our little family of 5!
Happy Organizing!
Hi I'm Jo-Anna! I mom. I blog. I cook. I craft. I like pretty things.
Thank you so much for this post! We have a TINY kitchen and A LOT of people and this is just what I needed to get me started! Thanks for all the great ideas!
Love how you decorated your mason jars! I think I may have to search through my unused scrapbooking paper for ideas.
Lookin’ great :)
Looks great! Thanks for sharing!
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some really great ideas here! I love organizing in the kitchen.
My pantry is an utter disgrace!!! I really need to reorganise, I like the idea of the little plastic bins for the potatoes etc. Must start on that next week . This week I am in party planning mode, next week – pantry planning :-) x
Very lovely
It looks great! I like the flour container. Great idea.
Thanks for sharing your kitchen ideas with us. Lovely.
I really love all of these ideas! We are getting ready to move into our first house- and I cannot tell you the amount of time I spend drooling over the PANTRY and all my ideas for organizing it (we have a total of 4 tiny food cupboards in our apartment)!
And, silly or not, I’m totally going to rip off your decorated mason jars :) And the secured tea towel is absolutely brilliant! My two year old seems to have a tea towel fetish and I usually get them a total of 5 minutes in the kitchen.
Thanks for all of the inspiration!!!
I LOVE your jars! I’m a jar lover myself, and have many of them in my cabinets. Never occurred to me to decorate their tops, too. What a fab idea to secure the tea towel, too. :)
this looks good! :)stopping by from iheartorg.
Ok, seriously those jars have my heart racing with excitement! I adore!
Thanks for linking up and sharing all of your organizing awesomeness! I am so impressed!
xoxo,
Jen
Great ideas, but I really had to laugh at the tea towel! I’m about ready to go do the same thing and get my own small amount of pleasure when my 15 month old son tries to pull our towels to the floor, lol. Some day’s I just wish one thing would stay where I put it.
Thanks for the idea!
~Chelsea
What an inspiration! I love your attention to detail. Everything from the decorated jars to lining the refrigerator shelfs.
You’ve given me a few great ideas.
Love that coffee maker ! I really don’t like the look of most coffee makers, so can you tell me about yours, please ? Brand ?
Sure! I bought it at Starbucks about 5 years ago. But the brand name is Saeco. ;)
Jo-Anna
I love all your ideas. I have a tiny kitchen with very little cabinet space. I ended up using my stainless steel measuring cups, colander and pot lids as wall decor in my kitchen to save space in my cabinets. I’ve actually had folks ask me where did I get the art on my wall! It’s when I take a piece down and show them that it’s made up of my kitchen utensils that they’re astonished at my creativity.