Here's what we
did...
Kitchen & Pantry
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Our first step in this organizing project was to make
a plan. We sat
down with the homeowner to learn about her family’s needs, activities, and
goals in the kitchen. We discussed her family’s eating and
entertaining habits as well as other functions that were routinely
performed in the kitchen. With all this in mind we began our task of
reorganizing her kitchen in a way that would best meet this family’s
routine and goals.
We followed our STACKS method by selecting an area,
planning the time, and dividing the project into achievable segments.
Our next step was purging and grouping like items together. After we did
this, we saw what we had left to organize.
A new pantry closet was installed to
add more shelves than the original one had. This had a definite
impact on maximizing space. We then gave every item in the
kitchen a designated place by choosing locations that were most
appropriate for the items and their categories.
We used wire shelves and
expandable shelves to maximize the space in the cabinets and under the
sink. We used drawer organizers to maximize space and give order to the
drawers. We put
recipes cards and clippings into recipes books that were specifically
designed for collected recipes. We set up a small filing system to
accommodate the papers the homeowner routinely processes and uses in the kitchen.
We put the unpaid bills in a Bill Paying Organizer and replaced her
tattered Greeting Card Organizer with a new one.
When we put the
items back into the kitchen we made sure that the labels on the cans and
boxes were turned forward and that the writing on all the boxes was going in the same
direction. We next placed category labels on the shelves and drawers
where we felt they were needed.
Our last step was taking a
look at the entire kitchen to see if it met our goals and to complete any last
minute tweaking.
