Concepts For Organizing Kitchen Drawers • Kath Eats

Here’s a tour of my kitchen drawers, plus numerous concepts for organizing kitchen drawers you should utilize in your personal area!

The kitchen is the hub of the house

Most individuals use theirs not less than 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 finished right here. The best way you manage your kitchen can have a big affect on the way in which you spend time within the area. 

What you’re feeling if you stroll within the room possible impacts your temper. That is very true for me, as I’ve a tough time specializing in anything if I do know my kitchen is a cluttered mess. It’s additionally one in all my favourite areas to prepare (in my home and different individuals’s). (Additionally take a look at tips on how to declutter your kitchen cupboards.)

And as you most likely know, our kitchen bought a significant overhaul in 2023!  Now we have far more drawer area than we want – as deliberate! Now we have wonderful deep and vast 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 may be much less leaning down or reaching up, and with the entire high open, it’s simple to get issues out and in. We most likely have too many drawers now, which you’ll see with numerous open area within the photographs of our kitchen drawers beneath.

Right here we bought with a kitchen drawer tour of our residence and a few concepts for organizing your personal.  

Concepts For Organizing Kitchen Drawers

Beginning on the left aspect of our kitchen, within the “cooking zone,” we’ve got 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 enormous serving spoons. In our earlier kitchen these took over two drawers, however on this new kitchen one giant drawer was the right dimension!  

The drawer organizers on this drawer are mesh metallic, 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 had been one in all my large requests for our new kitchen. They appear to be very fashionable today as a result of the cookware is very easy to succeed in. Within the center drawer we’ve got 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. Every time we get a stainless-steel inventory pot, it should go down right here too. 

Knife Drawer

Shifting over to the suitable 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 possibility as a result of all of the knives had been in view. A knife drawer gave the impression to be the plain answer since we had a lot nice drawer area. 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 ideas). 

Mixing Bowl Drawer

Welcome to bowl world. I LOVE our OXO stainless mixing bowls for all the pieces 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 after I’m cooking a recipe with a whole lot of steps or performing some meal prep. I’ll usually use all of the sizes in a single recipe – the tiniest bowl for garlic and lemon juice and the large bowls for chopped potatoes or veggies. We additionally maintain our measuring cups in right here! 

Lid Drawer

This lonely lid drawer wants some buddies. Our earlier cookware set had extra lids, so we had a lid drawer earlier than. We might really 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 we’ve got the area, lid drawer stays for now!

Plate Drawer

Shifting 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 high as a result of we use them most frequently, so getting one out or unloading the dishwasher (behind me) might be finished with out bending over to open and shut. We maintain three sizes of plates in right here: Pottery Barn traditional coupe dinner plates, traditional salad plates, and within the center a set of tiny appetizer plates that everybody wants for issues like a single cupcake or a number of apple slices!

You would possibly surprise if the plates slide round with none drawer dividers. They do only a tiny bit. However for essentially the most half they don’t (except you aggressively shut the drawer) so for now we’re going with no grid. A grid can be good, however I’m all the time on the lookout for methods to make do with what we’ve got!

Bowl Drawer

Below 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 ideal for yogurt, cereal, and so on.

I like that this drawer can also be simply accessible from the dishwasher (we undergo a whole lot of bowls) and I can shut the drawer with my thigh with somewhat nudge : )  

Lunchbox Drawer

The underside giant drawer in our island is for lunchboxes. It’s trying very empty right here as a result of the youngsters had their lunchboxes with them in school after I took this picture! I put each the lunchbox inserts and the material outsides in right here on the weekends. You may see we’ve got a number of further lunchboxes, too. 

You would possibly 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 bought on Amazon to maintain them from rolling left to proper, however they had been nonetheless shifting entrance to again rolling throughout the underside of the drawer. However slightly than purchase a drawer divider system, I made a decision to simply transfer them to the pantry. So now this drawer is lunchboxes solely! 

Silverware Drawer

Flipping round to the suitable of the dishwasher is our silverware drawer. I felt strongly that this be a single, smaller drawer actually proper subsequent to the dishwasher for simple unloading. Since our dishwasher has a tray on the highest, meaning there may be zero bending over. (You may inform I really feel strongly about my hatred for bending over when planning group areas, haha.)

I bought this bamboo silverware holder final 12 months that matches your drawer to dimension as a result of it’s expandable. Now we have it located entrance to again slightly 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 dimension spoons). 

Additional Cutlery Drawer

The subsequent drawer down has overflow silverware in a second smaller bamboo organizer. This golden set is one I exploit on particular events! We even have lids and chip clips in right here. 

Serving + Baking Drawer

The subsequent drawer down is our serving and grill drawer. These are all items I exploit on holidays / dinner events / or fancy events and never every single day. Plus a number of baking gadgets for the KitchenAid and a rolling pin.

Wraps + Baggage Drawer

Shifting again to the island, we’ve got 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 stuffed with these compostable baggies that I discovered at Goal. We attempt to not use baggies after we can use a reusable glass container, however we do use them generally. You may see we don’t actually use quart dimension proper now, in order that slot is empty, however I didn’t need to give it away!

Meals Storage Drawer

Below the luggage are our glass meals storage containers. Nonetheless love them!!!! Now we have simply two sizes – small and enormous. That simplifes issues so much! Most of our set was at the moment in use, however they stack neatly on high 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 these items at the moment. 

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 big dimension and these nice acrylic containers that I’m all the time raving about for any drawer in your home! Now we have knick knacks that we use, numerous chargers, a telephone cleaner, and so on. One other large request of mine was to have an outlet contained in the drawer – such a good way to cover muddle. 

Beverage Drawer

The ultimate cease on the drawer tour is our bev drawer underneath the espresso station. This drawer appears to be like a bit messy as a result of number of classes inside, however it’s actually all “drinks.” From koozies to spoons for stirring honey and low, to tea and wine openers. All the things we want for the espresso bar or drink fridge is true right here. (Plus Thomas’s nutritional vitamins as a result of he takes them within the a.m.!) 

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How To Set up Kitchen Drawers

In case your kitchen is feeling cluttered inside your entire drawers, take a look at this submit for my three-step course of: How To Set up Something In Your Home. I haven’t all the time had such a spacious kitchen, so there are some ideas from my smaller areas within the Dwelling Neat Dwelling archives.

Listed below are some ideas for organizing the kitchen drawers particularly:

Step 1: Purchase some organizing containers

This can be 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 stuffed with containers (with the tags nonetheless on) that we had been capable of combine and match like a puzzle till we discovered the right accent for every merchandise. After we had been finished, we returned those we didn’t use. I discover this technique so useful if you’re making an attempt 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 certainly somewhat further time, however it 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 pieces out of the drawers

If you’re prepared to start out organizing, take all the pieces out. If doing it unexpectedly 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. When 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!) Bear in mind to be ruthless about what you retain, particularly in case you are brief on area. 

Step 3: Contemplate 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 additionally the place in your kitchen you employ it. It was extraordinarily essential 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 normally 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 additionally the dimensions and form of issues which may match properly in a drawer (like how our mixing bowls and measuring cups match properly collectively). In the event you weren’t capable of purchase new equipment, store your own home for instruments to retailer issues. I’ve lengthy cherished storing issues in empty mason jars, baskets, or classic packing containers that I already owned. 

Comfortable organizing! 

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