Compact storage in the kitchen (53 photos): easy ideas for organizing order

Regardless of the large or small size of the kitchen, the question often arises before its owner: where to store all the dishes and household utensils? After all, a kitchen is an infinite number of items: cereals, knives, cutlery, dishes, seasonings, vegetables - and among all these things you need to put things in order so that they are always at hand.

In fact, the kitchen has much more space than it seems at first glance, and we offer you several ideas that will help you organize your space correctly, using all the cabinets, walls and corners.

Racks and shelves

• Open shelves. You can make them with your own hands and arrange them in a variety of ways: on free walls, around the door, in the corner, under the ceiling, between the modules of the kitchen unit. This solution creates additional space in your kitchen. Beautifully arranging cups, glasses, vessels with cereals and spoons, books on shelves, you not only save space and maintain order, but also decorate the kitchen.
• Mezzanine. Use the kitchen mezzanine to store things that you use less often than others. An urgent idea for a wall cabinet is to make it open, without cumbersome. If you do not have a mezzanine or a place for it, install a shelf above the door where you will store things in convenient drawers.
• "Hinged" racks. This idea will allow you to turn away from the wall and cook, communicating with loved ones. Move your headset away from the wall and use modern metal structures to organize open top systems. There you can put bottles, pans, vessels with loose cereals, containers with forks and spoons, hang cutting boards and pans.

Unused places

There are many empty places in the kitchen that you can use wisely:

• The ends of the cabinets will help organize the storage system of sanitary appliances: broom, mop, detergents. High end cabinets, often located next to the refrigerator, are especially good for such an idea. In the upper part we put shelves for detergents, below - hooks for a mop and other things. Also on the ends you can hang storage pockets that can be sewn from a soft mesh with your own hands. You can hold towels and paper bags in them.
• Walls are a great place to store pots and pans that don't fit in cabinets and drawers. An interesting idea is a metal panel with holes into which hooks for dishes are inserted, here you can store knives. The panel can be painted to the color of your kitchen and used as a modern art object. Remember that dishes placed in this way should always be in perfect condition and look aesthetically pleasing.
• The bottom drawers can be installed under the kitchen modules. Usually there is a decorative strip, behind which the legs of furniture are hidden. But this space can be used. In such drawers it is convenient to store flat objects, for example, pans, packaging with towels, sponges, etc.

Additional modules

• A mobile worktop can be your work area in the kitchen. It is convenient to store plates, cutlery, knives and other utensils on its lower shelves. In addition, it easily turns into a simple dining or serving table. You can store such a countertop in a corner where it will not hinder anyone.
• If your kitchen is made in the classical style, then it is probably decorated with columns or porticoes. These seemingly fixed systems can be equipped with integrated shelves and store seasonings, spoons, forks, cereals, bottles and products in vertical containers.
• The tabletop can also be slightly transformed. Firstly, with its help you can conveniently and safely store knives - make a gap in it where you will insert them. If the tabletop material cannot be sawed, then use a wooden insert. Secondly, you can put a box on the countertop, leaning it with the bottom against the wall. This box turns into an additional corner for storage: vessels with cereals, plates, forks, spoons and other utensils. You can attach hooks to it and hang something on them. Thirdly, additional cabinets for household appliances can be mounted in the countertop.
• A seasoning cabinet can be hung on the wall. Usually, spices are grown on the window, but by moving them to a cabinet with open shelves (which you can do with your own hands), you will free up valuable space on the windowsill, where you will place other things in the proper order.

Storage of vegetables and other products

Fresh bread needs a bread box, but it clutters our valuable space. There are several ideas for storing bread that you can do with your own hands. You can mount an additional wooden box with a convenient lid on the table and store it there - always at hand. A drawer is also suitable for storing bread. It is convenient to insert a half-width glass board into it and cut bread on it.

Remember that not all vegetables tolerate heat well, do not try to take large cabinets under them to store kilograms. An interesting idea is to arrange a vegetable corner directly on the kitchen wall. You can sew cotton or linen bags for vegetables and hang them by hooks. You can hang beautiful baskets on the wall.

It is convenient to store vegetables in drawers near the cutting zone, that is, not far from the sink. Make such a box yourself or order in advance as part of the headset.

We clean the closet

Often lack of space is a banal mess and the wrong organization of space in your cabinets and kitchen corners. Use the following tips to put everything in place.

• All bulk products: cereals, sugar, seasonings, salt, etc. must be placed in glass or plastic containers and signed. By inscriptions on banks, you will easily find the right product and maintain order.
• Get rid of excess unused dishes, discard broken plates and cups.
• Occupy high shelves with items that you use less often than others. There you can arrange everything that is stored in bottles.
• It is rational to put tall vessels closer to the wall, then medium, and the smallest ones at the door.

Proper storage and arrangement of dishes in cabinets will save a lot of space and keep order - put pots, pans and plates in each other, depending on their size.