Spring Organizing with Great Day Connecticut: Kitchen

Week 2 of our Spring Organizing Series, as seen on WFSB-TV’s Great Day Connecticut.

We shared several of our projects with Great Day Connecticut as part of our Spring Organizing Series collaboration to showcase how we organize main living spaces in the home. Watch part one and part two of the segments below, to see how we organized the space along with our best tips and tricks that apply to any home. In Week 2, we’re touring the kitchen.

Kitchen Organization

In Week Two, we’re taking you through the process of how we plan and create organizational designs and systems in the kitchen, as well as some versatile hero products that work well in nearly every kitchen.

A well-organized kitchen is the key to a more efficient and stress-free daily experience in your space. When every item has a designated place in your kitchen, morning routines become easier, meal prep becomes effortless, and maintaining order becomes simple.

When designing and planning an organizing project, we always start with space planning to determine our layout— a crucial first step. To space plan in the kitchen, we take the existing placement of large appliances (like the range, oven, refrigerator, sink and dishwasher), the layout of the existing cabinetry, and all of the kitchen supplies & their categories (with the context of volume in those categories) to design a layout that makes sense for that specific kitchen by creating “zones”.

For instance, in this kitchen, the Cooking & Prep Zone is set up around the range and oven, and the surrounding drawers and cabinets store supplies/categories like: Pots and Pans, Cutting Boards, Prep & Cooking Utensils, Prep & Measuring Bowls, Strainers, Sheet Pans, Casserole Dishes, etc. We also discussed the Plating Zone, Clean-Up Zone, and Morning Routine Zone.

Once the space planning is done and the layout is determined, we can then move on to the materials that create and support the organizing systems. The materials used in this kitchen are specific to the space, but are useful and applicable in most. We used versatile materials like turntables, drawer dividers, and other various inserts that provide containment and categorization.