Kitchen Organization Ideas and Tips

Since getting my new Frigidaire French Door Bottom Mount refrigerator, I’ve been trying to reorganize the rest of my kitchen. After all, with such a beautiful fridge, it’d be a shame not to have the rest of my kitchen up to par!

The fridge makes it easy to store food because of the store-savvy spaces. For example, condiments, sauces and jams are stored in the refrigerator door shelves. When everything has its place,  cooking and putting groceries away is a breeze not to mention storage is aplenty and entertaining becomes less stressful.

So I’m trying to take the organization in my Frigidaire fridge and carry it throughout the rest of the kitchen and entire house! Rather than be overwhelmed by a ton of projects, I’m starting off with the kitchen and working my way around the rest of the house, room by room. It will be an ongoing process and take time; it took me about a week to organize the basement:

Although we don’t have a pantry in the kitchen, we have a cantina – cold room – where we store everything from our own preserves like tomato sauce and giardiniera to pasta, onions and potatoes.

With limited cupboard space in the kitchen, the few cupboards I do have for storing food have to be well organized. One shelf is dedicated to baking supplies, the other for spices, one for coffee and tea and the rest is a hodge podge of items.

Although I haven’t found the time to finish everything I want to accomplish, I’ve been inspired to add some ideas to my Pinterest board, Get My Stuff Together.

1. Replace cupboard liners.
2. Organize the rest of my spices with matching jars and chalkboard labels, like these ones.

3. Buy and organize gluten free flours into glass canisters, as seen on http://adoreyourplace.com/2013/06/05/organization-made-easy/

4. Buy some cutting board organizing racks – I’ll likely buy another rack for all the lids for my storage food containers – because that is the absolute most messy storage problem in my kitchen – and one for pizza pans!

 5. Buy new cutlery drawers and a few for all of the other utencils I have. I’d rather the cooking/baking utencils to be hidden away in a drawer than left out in a cannister on the counter.

6. Buy an under-the-sink shelving unit/rack to organize kitchen cleaning products, dish soap, dishwasher pods, scrubbing pads, etc.

Here is the progress I’ve made so far:

What is your biggest challenge when organizing your kitchen?

Disclosure: I am part of the Frigidaire Canada Ambassador program with Mom Central Canada and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.