Kitchen Cabinet and counter top organizing products reviewed.

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When the kitchen cabinet and counter tops are so full of clutter that things fall out and are all over the place, it's enough to make you cry.

The kitchen and pantry are such central rooms. It's so easy for them to clutter up.

I want to reassure you of one thing- with the right organizing tools, kitchen cabinet and counter tops are easy to keep under control. That's because everything has it own category. Baking, Cooking, Spices, Garbage, Cleaning, Starches.

First of all, do you have a pantry? You've got to have some kind of seperate area aside from your kitchen cabinet and counter tops for food storage. There is so much to store in a kitchen, don't waste valuable kitchen cabinet and counter space with food.

If you do not currently have a pantry, get one. There are Kitchen Organization products from Get Organized such as a rolling pantry that fits in between the refrigerator and kitchen cabinet and counter space.

Or build some shelves in the room off of your kitchen. Store your food according to your cooking genre. Ingredients for Italian food, Indian food, Mexican, Chinese food all grouped seperately.

And, you really do not need fancy containers for food storage. Plastic ziploc bags are great for storing sugar, flour, rice, beans, lentils, etc. You can keep a shoebox or basket for lightbulbs, tape, and other non- food items.

To start organizing your kitchen cabinet and counter tops is to first is to clear the decks. Take your arm and sweep all of the clutter off of your counter tops, figuratively. Be careful of course!

You need a clean slate to work with. Put everything in laundry baskets on the floor.Put all of the pots in one basket. All of the tupperware in another basket. Sort as you remove everything.

Take EVERYTHING off of the counter tops. Heck, take everything out of your cabinets.

If your kitchen cabinets and counter tops are really really cluttered, you may only want to do this for one cabinet. But if you dare, take everything out and start over.

That's what I do in DECORganizing by the way. If you want a gorgeous kitchen, start brand new. You are going to feel so great when you are done :)

Once you've cleared everything off, clean the kitchen cabinet and counter tops. Wipe them down.

Now think about adding only your best items back.

Now you need some ideas for how to store items and where.

I'll tell you exactly what and how to use these spacesavers.

Put only your best items back into the kitchen cabinet and counter tops. That old chipped fathers day mug might be better for tool storage.
To find out more about organizing your kitchen to make it functional, as well as how long to keep pantry goods click here.

2. Lazy Susans

Your vitamins and small items you need access to pretty frequently, store in a lazy susan.

Before you get a lazy susan, measure the depth of your cabinet to make sure the stuff will fit.

I also buy large lazy susans and store them in the cabinets under sinks. This way, I can rotate the lazy susan and actually get to my cleaning supplies!

3. Pot Lid Organizer
Don't you hate the noise of clanging pots? The only way I see avoiding that noise is by hanging pots on some kind of hanging pot rack and storing the lids in a pull out drawer.

Otherwise, stacking your pots and pans inside of each other like most people do, in their kitchen cabinet and counter tops, is noisy!

4. Paper Plate storage
Do you use paper plates? Are they taking up too much room?

You could mount them to the underside of your kitchen cabinets, saving space. I don't know how well they stick, be sure to find one that can also be properly mounted with screws in case the tape does not work.

5. Expanding Shelf Organizer
Would you love to be able to know what foods you have and not have to make lots of duplicate trips to the store?

Use a tiered expanding shelf for your cans. You'll be able to see all of your cans.

Get the shelves with the gripping so the cans don't fall off. You can use these shelves also for your spices.

6. Pot Rack
Get your pots up on the wall or on the ceiling. This will free up your kitchen cabinet and counter tops. I know, some of your pots may not be in great condition, so get some good looking ones and hang them up. I really think this is a wonderful organizing as well as decorative option.

7. Stacking Plate Racks
Keeping the insides of kitchen cabinet and counter tops organized can be hard. It's so easy to reach in and take something and put it back whereever. Especially if you are short!

The more set locations you have for things, the easier it will be for everyone to know where things belong.

One example could be a tiered organizer plate rack. Now you know where the plates go and how they fit. Plus, you'll be maximizing the unused space typically behind the plates. You know have a whole shelf underneath the plates to store mugs or something.



8. Countertop plate rack

Do you entertain? Do you find yourself walking back and forth from the eating area to the kitchen serving another dish?

Having a plate rack that sits on the table where you can serve your guests right from where you are eating will eliminate frequent trips back to the kitchen.

Now you can actually sit with your company!

9. Silverware Organizer
I know this is for your drawers not your kitchen cabinet or counter tops, but I couldn't resist mentioning the importance of organizing your cutlery. With all of the products now on the market for organizing, you've got to include this one. It's such an easy, cheap solution yet makes such a difference. No more jumbled silverware.


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