Is Your Kitchen as Tidy and Well-Organized as This? Try Kitchen Organizers!

If your kitchen is disorganized, every meal is a struggle.

Standard issue kitchen cabinets, whether base cabinets or wall cabinets, are just not well-designed for organized storage. A new kitchen often comes with special organizer fittings in the cabinets which pull out, fold up or down, twirl around (and I sometimes expect them to sing and dance too) to make access to the deep dark recesses much easier.

If you’re stuck with old cabinets and you’re sick of getting down on hands and knees to delve into the back of the base cabinet shelves, or move every can in a wall cabinet to get to the one you need, fear not. You can choose from a huge range of retrofit kitchen organizers to make your cabinets store a lot more while making access easier at the same time.

Kitchen cabinet organizers come in several main styles:

• wire racks and stands which you simply place or clip on the shelves
• racks and mini-shelves to be screwed to cabinet doors
• sliding or rolling racks and drawers which are permanently installed

We’ll take a look at what’s available within each type.

Freestanding or Clip-On Wire Racks and Shelves

Under Shelf Wrap Organizer clips easily under an existing shellf in a base or wall cabinet, and holds up to 4 wrap packages. An alternative and more common wrap organizer rack screws to the inside of a base cabinet door.

Multi-tier can rack stands on a cabinet shelf and holds up to 60 cans in a space only 10 1/2″ X 14″ X 10″. Excellent space saver, works best when you have multiples of each kind of can so you can stack them in rows behind each other by kind, and always be able to see from the front can what’s in the row behind it. If you only ever have one of each can, or don’t use many cans at all, this isn’t going to be very useful for you.

Tagco Spice Stack Rack has three tiers that organize up to sixty spices. Each tier has a pull out drawer that flips down on hinges so you can see the contents clearly. The drawers are color coded so you can sort your herbs and spices by type. Size 11″ x 11″ x 8″.

Stairstep Shelf Cabinet Organizer . This little number allows you to stack things behind each other in the cabinet and still be able to see them easily as they rise higher towards the back.

Chrome Extra Large Helper Shelf makes one wall cabinet shelf into two, so you can have two layers. This works especially well for wide, low items like plates, bowls, pie plates, cake tins, small baking dishes and casseroles.

Screw-On Cabinet Door Organizers

Cabinet Door Lid Rack holds up to five lids. You can screw this to the wall by the cooktop instead of the cabinet door if you like, which makes the pot lids even more easy to access. Watch out if you have tall lids, as the limited depth on some of these racks will not allow you to use all the slots.

Plastic Lid Holder is a rack for your plastic pot lids such as Tupperware. This one has a fairly limited lid capacity so is only useful if you don’t have very many lids, or only want to store the big ones in this rack.

Adjustable Door Rack fits on a room door or a tall cabinet door and holds a lot of stuff. This needs to be attached to a sturdy door using solid fixings that will take the weight of the large number of items you can fit on this shelf unit.

Two-Tier Shelf holds cleaning or food items on the inside of a base or wall cabinet door. Often used on a sink cabinet door to hold cleaning supplies.

Permanently Installed Sliding Organizers

Two-Tier Sliding Cabinet Organizer installs in a base cabinet and gives you two sliding wire drawers. The top one is a narrower width which makes this unit easier to fit around the plumbing in a sink cabinet.

ClosetMaid 3024 Sliding Kitchen Trash Bag Holder fits in a base cabinet and conveniently hides away the garbage.

18 inch Double Pull-Out Chrome Wire Baskets are available in 9″, 12″ and 21″ widths too, to fit many sizes of cabinet. These are a great way to access the full depth of a base cabinet without having to crouch down with your head below your knees!

Full Circle 3 Tier Lazy Susan fits in a corner wall cabinet to give you full access to the depth of the corner.

Organizing your kitchen to make it fit you (size, cooking style and personality) is much easier if you first get rid of all the stuff that really shouldn’t be there.

Yes, you need to…

Declutter the Kitchen

Check for these decluttering candidates:

Food and pantry items

• Foods you tried and didn’t like
• Foods more than a year old that you thought you might try, but never did
• Foods past their expiry date

Equipment

• Small appliances you never used, or used once and never again
• Small appliances that don’t work and probably will never be fixed
• Utensils you have multiple duplicates of that you don’t use
• Multiple sets of china or flatware - pick the ones you love the most
• Special purpose equipment you haven’t used in more than a year
• “As seen on TV” gadgets that never worked as you’d hoped
• Cookbooks and recipes you never use

Actual junk

• Empty jars and plastic tubs - keep as many as you use, and recycle the rest
• Frayed, worn and ratty towels and cloths
• Cleaning supplies which are dried up or unusable
• Cleaning supplies you never use
• Pots and pans with wobbly or broken handles, burned patches, chipped enamel

Things which don’t belong

• Stuff belonging to other people or other rooms
• Things used only at the holidays which could be stored elsewhere
• Cleaning supplies you use - but in other rooms (store them elsewhere)

If you got rid of everything which doesn’t belong in the kitchen, how much easier would it be to cook a meal, bake a cake, or simply grab a snack and relax with a friend?

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Decluttering is one of those projects which we know should be simple, but where we can get hung up on emotional attachments to things we really don’t need any more. There are a number of online resources which can help you get over those humps and really make substantial progress with your clutter-clearing.Clutter-Free Forever eBookClear Your Clutter, Clear Your Mind

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Kitchen Layout and Organization

Maybe simply decluttering and organizing your kitchen is not enough. Sometimes bad kitchen layout can defeat all your attempts at organization. If that’s your problem, you can get help and information about kitchen plans and layouts and kitchen designs. More on home organization tools.