Simple Ways To Reduce Kitchen Clutter

Keeping Your Kitchen Clutter Free

Having difficulty keeping your kitchen clean and clutter free? We’ve given you tips on how to clean your counter, but if you’re having trouble finding your counters clear enough to clean, we think that you could use some tips on how to reduce clutter in your kitchen. We find that reducing the clutter in your kitchen is the easiest way to maintain a countertop that you can clean easily and often. So how do you do that?

What Is Needed or Wanted?

First, you must ask yourself, “Is this needed in my kitchen?” If you have minimal storage space in your kitchen, but you have an extra closet or cabinet in the hallway, why not keep those items you use only every now and then just around the corner? Why not send anything that you use only once every other couple months to the garage? If you can’t throw it away, but you don’t need it for regular use, it doesn’t need to be in the kitchen.

Once you’ve done this, you will need to work on finding the best way to store those things that are truly important to you and your life in your kitchen. We find that you have a few options: The wall, your shelves, drawers, or your cabinets and pantry. We want you to utilize all these spaces in the best way possible.

Wall Organizing Tips

If you can hang it – put it up on the wall. Knives can be placed on your wall with knife hanging magnetic strips. This option removes the old knife box you’re used to keeping on your counter from your countertop. Again, one less item on your counter means one less item you need to remove in order to partake in a regular cleaning.

Other utensils, like ladles and spatulas can hang from your walls, too. Pans can even hang from your ceiling. A ceiling hanging pots and pans rack can act as a beautiful centerpiece in your kitchen. We really recommend this if you’re lucky enough to have an island counter surface.

Shelve Organizing Tips

Open shelving can be a great place to put those items in your kitchen that you want seen. Whether it’s an item you use often, like a teapot or your salt and pepper shaker, or an item you find especially beautiful, like a teapot or your salt and pepper shaker, we think the shelf is where you want to put it. Having open shelving will help keep those items that typically collect grease, grit, and grime when they’re sitting on your counters, off of that surface.

Drawer Organizing Tips

We’ve all got one – the junk drawer. We won’t take that away from you, but we recommend that you only have one. If you don’t have any place to quickly drop something you don’t have time to take care of while the kids are calling, it will end up on your counter, and that is what we are trying to stop from happening. We just recommend that you keep your junk drawer contained. Clean it out every month!

That being said, your other functional drawers should definitely be organized. And you don’t need to stop with a silverware organizer. Sectional drawer organizers can help you keep whatever it is that you keep in your drawers in order.

Cabinet Organizing Tips

Your cabinet space can easily become a very disorganized part of your kitchen, since everything in it sits behind closed doors. It doesn’t have to be this way, though.

Say you’re having trouble knowing how to handle that awkward space in the corner of your L-shaped pantry? Use a lazy susan to help you spin items from the far corner to the center and back. Lazy Susans can be helpful in any part of a kitchen, not just the family dining table.

Pantry Organizing Tips

If it feels like a never ending search whenever you need to grab a can of tomatoes from your pantry, it probably means that you need to organize by size and shape of your food items. Keeping a cereal box in front of your canned food isn’t helping anyone. Maybe you stock up on lots of canned foods, though, and you still can’t find the garbanzo beans. Shelf risers will bring the back row of cans a few inches above the front row, allowing you to read the labels of all your canned food – even if they are the same size.

Spice racks can always hang on the inside of your pantry doors, too. A pantry door can’t support too much weight, but a simple spice rack should help you keep the garlic and onion powder accessible and certainly out of the way.

Organizing Cleaning Supplies

Once you get all of your available storage space organized – your walls, shelves, drawers, cabinets, and your pantry – you should be able to keep a clearer countertop. A clear countertop will help lead the way to a clean kitchen.

If you’ve got your drawers organized, your pots and pans hanging, your back pantry space elevated, and you’re still having trouble keeping your kitchen clean, we can offer you a few last pointers. It’s not just your kitchenware that needs to be organized in your kitchen. You’ll need your cleaning supplies organized and accessible too. No one wants to clean if the supplies are under the sink and behind the trash.

Make yourself a shower caddy of kitchen cleaning supplies. Make sure you can grab it easily for a quick clean. Cleaning frequently and less rigorously will help you make a habit of it. Having to deep clean every time that you bring out the supplies will keep those supplies hidden longer.

Whether you need help cleaning more regularly, or you want assistance with a deep clean, Crystal Clear Home is here to help you. Give us a call at 707-827-3316 or fill out our free cleaning estimate form and one of our staff will get back to promptly.