Talina's Profile

My biggest problem was all the little random doodads throwing off my organizational scheme. It was easy to put together a box of kitchenwares, a box of plates, a box of cups, a box of clothing, etc. but where the heck do you put all the random one-off items with no particular organizational theme, that you can't necessarily pile in one big misc. box of their own? Those were the bane of my existence and some of them are STILL sitting in little boxes and containers from our last move.

I've recently discovered the joys of making extra shelves inside of cabinets, and utilizing inside-the-door space. I had no idea there were so many weird contraptions and stuff that do that.

Cabinet shelves

Cabinet door organizers

Soooo cool. I really like the ones that will even roll or slide out. Then I get to feel fancy AND save some space. And we use thing towel bar thingy to hold our washcloths and oven mitt on a cabinet door by the stovetop and microwave, whereas before, we just left them lying around or stacked up somewhere.

I don't really have an opinion on the paintings (sorry!), but I kinda love that ceiling light fixture... anyone know where it's from?

I also have the collapsible funnel that Foodlovah ues, and it is AWESOME, because normal funnels are so awkward to cram into a drawer and I end up breaking half of them as a result. I found mine for a little cheaper than Amazon's price here (www.organizeit.com/progressive-collapsible-funnel-mini.asp). It might end up being closer cost with shipping factored in, I guess, but since I shop in person at their Michigan store, that is soooo not a problem for me. :D

We just bought our first home last year, and our kitchen is still recovering. We went from having small apartment kitchens, or kitchens at our parents' homes (where, you know, embarrassingly, our parents would clean up a lot of messes neither of us knew we were leaving until we were on our own), to our own kitchen that nobody but us was going to tidy up or clean. Lame. But since we're not trust fund babies or executives, we're not planning on springing for maid service any time soon.

Thankfully the last owner left us with a bunch of cabinet space, and pull-out drawers and shelves inside all those cabinets, and the first thing we did was start putting away gadgets we don't use often - we love us some kitchen gadgets. We also moved down the street from this place - Organize-It (http://www.organizeit.com) - which also has a website where they sell all this organizey kitchen stuff I kinda never knew existed before. So part of that is helping - I got one of these over the door organizer things (http://www.organizeit.com/wall-mount-kitchen-towel-bar.asp) to keep little hand towels and oven mitts handy (we just kinda stuffed them wherever before) and I have my eye on this roll-out tower (http://www.organizeit.com/slide-out-storage-tower.asp) because we totally have an awkward mini-cabinet right next to the fridge that does absolutely zip right now.

We're totally whittling this mess down little by little, but I don't think our kitchen will ever look like the one in the photo, except maybe for one brief moment just after we clean it but before we eat something or make something. ^_~