How to Organize Your Kitchen Space: Avoid 8 Mistakes

When organizing the kitchen space, many people make serious mistakes, which make the kitchen not only uninviting, but also uncomfortable.

Let's look at the most common mistakes and tell you how to avoid them.

Designer Yulia Tychino talks about the most common mistakes in kitchen organization.

Putting things in their places

Before you tidy up, you first need to get rid of unnecessary things that you haven’t used for a long time.

And only after this can you begin to put things in order.

Storing unnecessary things in the kitchen

Surely every housewife has things in her kitchen that she never uses or uses very rarely.

As a rule, these are baking pans, grill grates and other things. And so that they do not get in the way, it is advisable to allocate the top shelf for storing them.

Beauty comes first, not functionality

Many housewives, when arranging a kitchen, pay special attention to the design of the room. But beauty is not the most important thing.

First of all, you need to take care of the functionality of the space. Think about how it would be more convenient to arrange the kitchen set, where to install shelves for household appliances, where to place dishes and other kitchen utensils.

Distribution of household appliances and kitchen utensils based on their size

Dishes, appliances and other kitchen utensils should be placed in the part of the kitchen where you use them.

For example, knives can be placed on the worktop or a special magnetic strip can be attached above the worktop to store them. Pots and pans can be stored in a cabinet under the worktop.

Considering that spices are usually added during cooking, they should be placed next to the stove.

Using bulky containers to store bulk products

Jars for storing bulk products, made in a single style, look not only beautiful, but also neat. But when choosing, you need to pay attention to their size.

There is no point in buying large capacity jars if you do not plan to fill them completely.

In this case, it is wiser to buy more compact jars based on the volume of the purchased product. This will allow you to save at least a little space.

A box designed for storing various small items

Many housewives prefer to store openers, lids, pastry nozzles, molds and other small items in a separate drawer. But is it worth filling the drawer with things that you use only from time to time?

It might make sense to use this box to store other more necessary things that you use regularly. And for small items, it’s better to find a place on the top shelf.

Store all containers

Bottles, food containers, jars and other containers, which become more and more with each purchase, and most importantly, it’s a shame to throw them away.

After all, everything will definitely come in handy in the household. But remember how long ago you used them and whether you used them at all. Perhaps it’s worth getting rid of them, leaving only the most necessary, thereby freeing up space for other things.

The shelves are not the right size

Shelves are the wrong size - this is the most common mistake. There are shelves, but the household appliances do not fit on them.

As a result, you have to find another place for it. To prevent this from happening, before installing the shelf, decide what will be on it. And what the optimal distance should be between the shelves.

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