Tonight I wanted to tell you about rearranging my kitchen this past weekend. I have lived in my house for nearly 30 years and I have never really rearranged my cabinets as much as I have rearranged living room furniture and such. So I decided to see if I could maximize my cabinet drawers by rearranging a few things. I grabbed a few shipping supplies (like boxes) and got on my way to cleaning things up.
Of course many experts would say there are specific layouts that would probably be the most efficient layout for a kitchen but we also have our own preferences that we need to work in also. With that being said I think that all these years later I would’ve preferred to have a lot more drawers than cabinets. Large oversize drawers, that would easily pull out and hold large pots and pans.
If you’re like me, when you get something new it’s so exciting that you feel like you have to clean your whole house to match this newness of the new appliance for example. Same goes for rearranging cabinets. I felt as if I needed to clean the entire kitchen just because all of the cabinet drawers were neatly organized. I would love to incorporate wooden drawer dividers someday, for even more organization. Or maybe incorporate holders that would organize lids of all sizes.
Last year we went to an IKEA store in Indianapolis with my son, who lives there, and I saw some really neat drawer dividers that were beautiful wooden dividers. Unfortunately I didn’t purchase any because I didn’t know the exact dimensions of my drawers back home (and due to the fact that I live so far away from Indianapolis, meant I could not exchange them easily if I needed to.) Maybe one of these days I will get my drawer dimensions listed and then go back to IKEA and purchase some drawer organizers? Whether it’s shipping supplies or otherwise, sometimes things have to be organized.
I would also like to work on one of pantries that is currently housing too wide a variety of items. You know, all those old ball things from WD-40 and paints (that should actually be in the garage) to a whole section of photographs that probably should probably be boxed up neatly and stored elsewhere. This pantry is quite neat in that most older homes do not have these oversize cabinets.
I also have another huge pantry, that even had to have a support system built underneath it, in the crawlspace, for fear the weight filled with hand goods would cause settling and possibly harm the level of the room. This pantry has two swing out sections that allow for optimal viewing of all the canned goods. I’m sure this pantry could easily house over 200 canned goods. It was absolutely one of the best purchases we made in our cabinet selection, I recommended it one hundred percent!
