Organize Your Space

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Kitchen: This is the most important area to focus on if you’re looking to increase storage space for your food, so that you can have your food within reach while you’re cooking.

• By hanging bulky pots and pans from hooks or racks on your kitchen wall, you can free up valuable cabinet space for food. A magnetic strip for knives and other metal cooking gadgets can also give you some more drawer room.
• Use your counter space. If you get a decorative holder for your cooking utensils and keep it on the counter, it will free up drawer space without cluttering your kitchen too much. Another idea is keeping basic cooking supplies like flour and sugar in decorative canisters on the counter, making a fun display while being functional and freeing up your cabinets.
• Make use of every inch of cupboard space. You might want to install pull-out shelves in cupboards that are very narrow or deep to make use of room that’s hard to access. Building a lazy Susan into your corner cabinet will utilize every bit of that space and make it easy to access. You can also attach wire shelves or baskets to the underside of existing shelves to add shelving and organization to cabinets that are too big and become cluttered. Mounting lid racks on the inside of cabinet doors will keep lids out of the way.
• If you have hanging cabinets, you can mount things underneath them to increase your counter space. There are attachments for tin foil and plastic wrap, plastic bags, paper plates, and even appliances like electric can openers and coffee pots.