If you have a small kitchen, the organization and the storage system is important to keep everything neat and tidy. Storing the small kitchen appliances sometimes are tricky. Here are several ideas that you can use to store the small appliances in your kitchen.
1. Grouping Your Appliances
If you have a small kitchen, you will need to take a look at what you have in the kitchen. The first step that you will need to do is to group your kitchen appliances by use.
You could put the one that you rarely use in the higher level of the cabinet and the one that you use often to be on your reach. For example, the expensive chinaware that you only use once a year and the extra pantry supplies could be stored on the top of the shelves.
2. If You Purchase New Kitchen Appliances, Buy the One with Multiple Function
If you need to purchase the new appliances because you don’t have or as well you need to upgrade the old one, try to buy the one with multi-function. For example, instead of buying the regular blender, buy the one with high quality and can be used as a food processor.
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3. Get Rid of the Appliances that You Never Use
This could be a hard decision especially if you are thinking that probably you will need these one day. But if you have three pots with similar size or dozens of spatulas, you really need to get rid of these unused appliances from your kitchen. You could either donate or sell your unused appliances on eBay.
If you are facing difficult times to let go an appliance, try to use this method. Put the unused appliances in the box and store it somewhere out of your sight, if you are looking for it because you need it, then maybe the item should be kept. But, if you don’t think about it after a few months, you will need to donate or sell it.
4. Put the Divider in Your Drawer
You could put the divider inside of the countertop drawer, so you don’t have the spoons, forks, knives, spatula to be cluttered. You could also create a small hidden rack with the cubby to keep the toaster and blender.
So, if you want to use the item, you could just take them out from the rack and tucked them away when it is not needed.
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5. The Corner Storage
If you have unused space in the corner of the lower cabinet, you could create the corner store for the kitchen appliances and baking equipment. You could put the stainless rack as a divider to avoid the piles of the appliances.
For the upper cabinet, you could also use customized shelves that you could use to store the kitchen appliances. You could also put the door for this corner like the smaller version of the garage roller doors that could help you to minimize the space.
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6. The Flip-Up Cabinet Door
Another way to save the space is by using a flip-up door in your cabinet. So instead of you open the door on the left or right side which could take the space, you could easily flip to open the cabinet to access the small appliances. The appliances will look neat and hidden inside the cabinet and you still can keep the counter space for other use.
7. A Walk-In Pantry
If you have a small u-shape space in your kitchen, you may want to make this as the walk-in pantry. Put open and adjustable shelves on the walk-in pantry where you can store extra and rarely used appliances, machines. Therefore, you could have more space in the kitchen and if you need any extra appliances, it will be easy for you to find them.
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8. Use an Island Table with Lower Cabinets
If you are using an island table in the kitchen, have it with the lower cabinets or drawers that you can use to store appliances. So, not only helping you to prepare food, the island table could be useful for you to keep your kitchen organized and tidy. The same idea also could be applied with the peninsula. Nowadays, many peninsulas come with the drawer and hidden storage.
9. Use the Above Space of Your Fridge
Instead of just left the above your fridge with the empty space, you could put the customized storage on the above space of your fridge. You could have open storage to put some extra appliances to maximise the usage of the space.
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10. Use Free-Standing Shelves
In the old days, you will feel that these free-standing shelves will be used in the restaurant kitchen only. But learning from these experts, you could take this idea to be applied in your kitchen, the metal shelves are very useful to store many items from the spices to the blenders, stand mixer, or toaster. Nowadays, you could find it with various height and size in the furniture company.
11. The Multiple Storage Level
You could use the pull-out drawers for the multiple storage levels. You could put the stand mixer on the top and use the lower level to keep the bowl and baking equipment.
12. The Pull-Out Shelf
Similar like a drawer, you could create a high level of the pull-out shelf to store the small appliances such as the blender, food processor or toaster. So, the item will be hidden when you don’t use it and if you need to use it, it’s easy to pull-out.
13. The Open Shelves
Since more and more kitchen nowadays uses the stainless steel, why not showing the stainless-steel appliances in your kitchen. By having open shelves, you will create a larger atmosphere, but it is also very useful to store the small appliances in the kitchen.
14. The Top of the Cabinets
If you have a space between the ceiling and the cabinets, you could use this space as the storage for the extra kitchen appliances that you use occasionally. You could save the space in the countertops, but it is also easier for you to take it when you need it for special occasion.
