Here’s a tour of my kitchen drawers, plus numerous concepts for organizing kitchen drawers you need to use in your individual house!
The kitchen is the hub of the house
Most individuals use theirs at the very least as soon as a day, some households perhaps 10 instances a day! Folks collect within the kitchen. Household dinners and bonding occur. Homework and artwork initiatives are accomplished right here. The best way you manage your kitchen can have a major influence on the way in which you spend time within the house.
What you’re feeling if you stroll within the room probably impacts your temper. That is very true for me, as I’ve a tough time specializing in the rest if I do know my kitchen is a cluttered mess. It’s additionally considered one of my favourite areas to prepare (in my home and different individuals’s). (Additionally take a look at how you can declutter your kitchen cupboards.)
And as you most likely know, our kitchen received a significant overhaul in 2023! Now we have far more drawer house than we’d like – as deliberate! Now we have superb deep and broad kitchen drawer storage and that was my primary request. I advised our architect and cupboard maker “all of the drawers, please.” I discover drawers a lot simpler to make use of than cupboards. There’s much less leaning down or reaching up, and with the entire prime open, it’s straightforward to get issues out and in. We most likely have too many drawers now, which you’ll see with numerous open house within the pictures of our kitchen drawers under.
Right here we received with a kitchen drawer tour of our dwelling and a few concepts for organizing your individual.
Concepts For Organizing Kitchen Drawers
Beginning on the left aspect of our kitchen, within the “cooking zone,” now we have the utensil and cookware drawers.
Utensil Drawer
That is our major kitchen utensils drawer that homes specialty gadgets like whisks, a garlic press, thermometers, pizza cutters, measuring cups and spoons, tongs, and huge serving spoons. In our earlier kitchen these took over two drawers, however on this new kitchen one massive drawer was the proper measurement!
The drawer organizers on this drawer are mesh steel, which I’ve owned for years and years. Whereas it was tempting to change to bamboo (my favourite for drawers) I made a decision to be sensible and use what I had. Fortunately, they match properly and match properly collectively! Our different major cooking utensils are in a pot on the countertop (spatulas, wood spoons).
Cookware Drawers
Cookware drawers have been considered one of my large requests for our new kitchen. They appear to be extremely popular today as a result of the cookware is really easy to achieve. Within the center drawer now we have our on a regular basis pots and pans – a 2 quart sauce pan and 12″ frying pan by Demeyere and two nonstick Caraway minis. With the handles, they match properly inside with minimal crowding.
The decrease of the 2 deep kitchen drawers homes our less-frequently-used however extra heavy-duty items: a skillet and Blanc Creatives carbon metal frying pan and a Lodge forged iron skillet. We use these principally for searing dinner meals, in order that they get the underside drawer spot. At any time when we get a chrome steel inventory pot, it is going to go down right here too.
Knife Drawer
Transferring over to the correct of the vary is our knife drawer. I’m obsessive about this drawer!! We debated between re-installing our magnetic strip for knives and even going for a knife block, however I didn’t actually like both choice as a result of all of the knives have been in view. A knife drawer appeared to be the plain resolution since we had a lot nice drawer house. I LOVE the knife organizers we bought. Whereas one can technically every match all of our knives, having two retains all of them going through out and simpler to seize. Oven mitts go within the center (love these with the silicone suggestions).
Mixing Bowl Drawer
Welcome to bowl world. I LOVE our OXO stainless mixing bowls for all the things from making meatballs to cookies to Hugh Jass salads (the center one is my favourite salad bowl). They’re so sturdy (I’ve had them for years and years). I additionally love having nesting mixing bowls of all sizes for once I’m cooking a recipe with numerous steps or performing some meal prep. I’ll typically use all of the sizes in a single recipe – the tiniest bowl for garlic and lemon juice and the massive bowls for chopped potatoes or veggies. We additionally maintain our measuring cups in right here!
Lid Drawer
This lonely lid drawer wants some pals. Our earlier cookware set had extra lids, so we had a lid drawer earlier than. We might truly simply retailer the lids with the cookware, however I don’t like the additional step of eradicating it when getting out a pot, so we simply maintain them in right here. Since now we have the house, lid drawer stays for now!
Plate Drawer
Transferring on to the island!! The highest drawer is our plate drawer. When deciding the place to place our plates, I knew I wished them up prime as a result of we use them most frequently, so getting one out or unloading the dishwasher (behind me) may very well be accomplished with out bending over to open and shut. We maintain three sizes of plates in right here: Pottery Barn basic coupe dinner plates, basic salad plates, and within the center a set of tiny appetizer plates that everybody wants for issues like a single cupcake or just a few apple slices!
You may surprise if the plates slide round with none drawer dividers. They do only a tiny bit. However for probably the most half they don’t (except you aggressively shut the drawer) so for now we’re going with out a grid. A grid could be good, however I’m at all times in search of methods to make do with what now we have!
Bowl Drawer
Underneath the plates in a deep drawer are our bowls! Now we have some shallow pasta bowls (like these), dealt with bowls that we use for soups (like these) and deep cereal bowls (like these!). (Ours are from Pottery Barn however they’re not offered from what I can inform.) I even have some KERF bowls which are smaller and excellent for yogurt, cereal, and so forth.
I like that this drawer can also be simply accessible from the dishwasher (we undergo numerous bowls) and I can shut the drawer with my thigh with a bit nudge : )
Lunchbox Drawer
The underside massive drawer in our island is for lunchboxes. It’s trying very empty right here as a result of the children had their lunchboxes with them at college once I took this picture! I put each the lunchbox inserts and the fabric outsides in right here on the weekends. You’ll be able to see now we have just a few further lunchboxes, too.
You may know from Instagram that I additionally had all of our water bottles in right here at one level. I purchased a water bottle holder I received on Amazon to maintain them from rolling left to proper, however they have been nonetheless shifting entrance to again rolling throughout the underside of the drawer. However moderately than purchase a drawer divider system, I made a decision to only transfer them to the pantry. So now this drawer is lunchboxes solely!
Silverware Drawer
Flipping round to the correct of the dishwasher is our silverware drawer. I felt strongly that this be a single, smaller drawer actually proper subsequent to the dishwasher for straightforward unloading. Since our dishwasher has a tray on the highest, which means there may be zero bending over. (You’ll be able to inform I really feel strongly about my hatred for bending over when planning group areas, haha.)
I bought this bamboo silverware holder final yr that matches your drawer to measurement as a result of it’s expandable. Now we have it located entrance to again moderately than aspect to aspect. After which acrylic containers from this set fill the again with totally different classes of items (mismatching KERF spoons, cheese knives, Birch measurement spoons).
Further Cutlery Drawer
The following drawer down has overflow silverware in a second smaller bamboo organizer. This golden set is one I take advantage of on particular events! We even have lids and chip clips in right here.
Serving + Baking Drawer
The following drawer down is our serving and grill drawer. These are all items I take advantage of on holidays / dinner events / or fancy events and never day-after-day. Plus just a few baking gadgets for the KitchenAid and a rolling pin.
Wraps + Luggage Drawer
Transferring again to the island, now we have 4 extra stacked drawers which are organized by precedence top. Wraps and baggies are on the highest. I purchased this bamboo set to decant baggies and LOVE IT! They’re crammed with these compostable baggies that I discovered at Goal. We strive to not use baggies after we can use a reusable glass container, however we do use them generally. You’ll be able to see we don’t actually use quart measurement proper now, in order that slot is empty, however I didn’t need to give it away!
Meals Storage Drawer
Underneath the baggage are our glass meals storage containers. Nonetheless love them!!!! Now we have simply two sizes – small and huge. That simplifes issues lots! Most of our set was at present in use, however they stack neatly on prime with lids above like so:
Stasher Bag Drawer
We love Stasher bags for bagels and breads or different issues within the freezer, like our banana halves for smoothies. They get their very own drawer for when not in use.
Child Drawer
And the underside drawer is the kiddo drawer for cups, bowls, and plates for Birch. He picked this drawer as a result of he can simply attain it. We’re most likely virtually phased out of it at this level, however he nonetheless makes use of most of this stuff at present.
Linens Drawer
This drawer homes our cleansing garments, kitchen towel storage, and fabric and paper napkins. Nothing tremendous particular! Once more I might use dividers, however there’s actually no want since issues have a tendency to remain in place.
Junk Drawer
I like our junk drawer because of its large measurement and these nice acrylic containers that I’m at all times raving about for any drawer in your own home! Now we have knick knacks that we use, numerous chargers, a cellphone cleaner, and so forth. One other large request of mine was to have an outlet contained in the drawer – such an effective way to cover litter.
Beverage Drawer
The ultimate cease on the drawer tour is our bev drawer below the espresso station. This drawer seems a bit messy because of the number of classes inside, but it surely’s actually all “drinks.” From koozies to spoons for stirring honey and occasional, to tea and wine openers. All the pieces we’d like for the espresso bar or drink fridge is correct right here. (Plus Thomas’s nutritional vitamins as a result of he takes them within the a.m.!)
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How To Arrange Kitchen Drawers
In case your kitchen is feeling cluttered inside all your drawers, take a look at this submit for my three-step course of: How To Arrange Something In Your Home. I haven’t at all times had such a spacious kitchen, so there are some suggestions from my smaller areas within the House Neat House archives.
Listed below are some suggestions for organizing the kitchen drawers particularly:
Step 1: Purchase some organizing containers
It is a new-to-me technique that I used to be offered on when Thomas’s aunt Layton got here to assist me manage our new walk-in pantry. Layton arrived with a automotive filled with containers (with the tags nonetheless on) that we have been in a position to combine and match like a puzzle till we discovered the proper accent for every merchandise. Once we have been accomplished, we returned those we didn’t use. I discover this technique so useful if you’re attempting to place collectively drawer organizers like a grid and aren’t fairly positive what you want. The additional step to return what you don’t use is unquestionably a bit further time, but it surely makes organizing a lot extra enjoyable!
For extra kitchen organizing equipment, take a look at these posts: Kitchen Group Equipment Favorites and Pantry Group Bins.
Step 2: Take all the things out of the drawers
Once you’re prepared to start out organizing, take all the things out. If doing it all of sudden isn’t doable, simply do one drawer or class at a time. When you see what’s on the market (particularly these of you with deep, darkish holes for drawers) you’ll extra simply be capable to see what is important to remain and what can do. In case you have three rolling pins, perhaps you don’t want three?! (We do have three pizza cutters and we do use all three at instances when one is biking by means of the dishwasher!) Keep in mind to be ruthless about what you retain, particularly if you’re quick on house.
Step 3: Think about the place and the way you employ issues
On the countertop, visualize the place issues will go. Group like issues with like and take into consideration not solely what you employ collectively (plates collectively, silverware collectively) but in addition the place in your kitchen you employ it. It was extraordinarily necessary to me that our on a regular basis dishes and flatware be as near the dishwasher as humanly doable. We put cooking issues subsequent to the range and meals storage issues the place we often are wrapping up leftovers. Much less used gadgets go within the backside drawers.
Step 4: Place issues again in drawers utilizing containers and dividers
When you’ve made a plan, begin to put issues again. That is the enjoyable half! Take into consideration like with like but in addition the dimensions and form of issues which may match properly in a drawer (like how our mixing bowls and measuring cups match properly collectively). For those who weren’t in a position to purchase new equipment, store your property for instruments to retailer issues. I’ve lengthy cherished storing issues in empty mason jars, baskets, or classic bins that I already owned.
Glad organizing!
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