Some Ideas For People With Smaller Kitchens
Is working in your kitchen a chore you would rather do without? Do you spend more time wishing you had more space in your kitchen than you spend planning and preparing your meals? Are you frustrated because there is just no way you can afford to knock out a wall and make your kitchen bigger? Rather than think negatively, think positive and see what you can do with your existing space.
Your first order of business will be to get rid of all the things in your kitchen that you can do without. Take a look at all the countertop appliances you have accumulated over the years. Are they the reason why you can’t find enough space on your counter even to make a sandwich? Take that countertop microwave and put it on a shelf and you’ll have more than enough space to fix a sandwich.
What other standing appliances do you have that are either taking up space in a cupboard or on your counter top? Do you have a big mixer that you only need a couple of times a year, but leave sitting on your countertop because you even use it for small jobs. Why not buy a compact electric hand mixer and put the bulky mixer somewhere out of the way until you need it?
In fact, if you buy a quality mixer, such as a Cuisinart hand mixer, you just might discover that you no longer need that big mixing machine anyway. If that’s the case, then sell it at your next neighborhood garage sale or give it away. Your space is more important to you than the money you’d get for the mixer at a garage sale.
Now that you’ve got some space on your benchtop, take everything out of all your drawers and off your shelves. Separate everything into three categories. The first category will be the things you can’t do without. The second category will be those that you use only occasionally, but often enough that you really need them. The third category, those you never used, should be packed up and gotten rid of.
Once that is done, give your kitchen shelves a good cleaning and replace the items you have kept. Put the ones you use the least in the least accessible places and the ones you use the most in the most accessible places.
Once you’re done, stand back and take a proud look around your new, miraculously much larger kitchen. You will be amazed by how pleasurable working in your kitchen will be now that you have created more space to work in.
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