Kitchen Portable Drawers

[Jomega Gibson]

Ifound this vintage hutch secondhand online (I think it was around $50?), removed the top portion and sanded it down to bare wood. It was the perfect size to hold our microwave, toaster, cups/barware, and drink shelf on top. It also has a drawer where we keep our mugs and coffee.

I also bought this slightly different tray set to have more configuration options between the drawers. The right drawer holds pens, flashlights, batteries, keys, chargers, tape, etc. The arrangement has changed slightly depending on our storage needs.

On the bottom tray, we keep our hand vacuum with attachments and miscellaneous household supplies. For the top drawer, I found these inexpensive tray organizers to corral our smaller household parts like painting supplies, hooks, screws, anchors and nails.

Rather than adding an upper cabinet, I wanted to find something unique and unexpected (like our vintage hutch) for our dry food storage. Enter this barrister bookcase I scored secondhand online, then refinished and frosted the glass:

Lovely kitchen. I am currently designing my kitchen remodel. I love the look of open shelving but I am very concerned about the cleaning aspect. Our kitchen has heavy use and I wonder if it is actually practical as well as pretty?

In the area under the window, we have three drawers. The top is filled with cat stuff (treats, toys, medicine, etc.). The middle has acrylic pool glasses. The bottom has our Yetis and NutriBullet cups, etc. The far right set of cabinet doors is where I store most of my entertaining pieces like large platters, trays, etc. Kurtis also has a handful of beer growlers in there. Above the fridge, I have some vases and then chargers for our dining room that are too large to store in my hutch!

Regardless if you store your food storage containers in a drawer or cabinet, I think we can all agree that the lids seem to be the biggest hurdle in making things feel organized! We made the switch to glass food storage a year or two back and love that most of the containers nest well together. But the lids always seemed to wreak havoc on our drawers! We bought this lid organizer in the fall and it has been a total gamechanger! It comes in two sizes and works just as well in cabinets as it does drawers!

We have these wood peg board systems install in each of the drawers. In the top drawer where we store our pans and lids, we use the peg boards in combination with this lid organizer and pan organizer. We have one pan that is really large so it can only be stored in there by storing it at a bit of an angle rather than upright, but otherwise everything looks really tidy this way.

In the lower drawer, we just use the wood peg board kit with the included pegs to organize our mixing bowls and pots. The pegs simply help keep things contained and from sliding around the drawer.

At the end of the day, you have to do what makes the most sense for you and how you personally use your kitchen! Sometimes it takes a little creativity and not necessarily listening to what the experts may tell you to do! I hope you found these kitchen organizing tips helpful!

For all our lower cabinetry and island cabinetry, we tried to incorporate as many drawers as possible. The main reason that drawers are the more popular choice is that they are easier to store things in. With cabinets, items are much more prone to get lost in the back never to be seen again. But with drawers, you can pull them out and easily see everything inside.

Another thing I knew I needed to have off the counters was a paper towel holder. We were able to create a secret little drawer for them right above the trash cans. It pulls out and has more room in back for extra rolls as well as our garbage bags!

I think you did a fantastic job with your kitchen. I love the gray quartz countertops. I am collecting ideas and samples and go back and forth between white and black cabinets, but your kitchen has me thinking of wood tones now. I was also going back and forth between engineered wood floors and tile so wood look tiles in your kitchen look great.

Most people use theirs at least once a day, some households maybe 10 times a day! People gather in the kitchen. Family dinners and bonding happen. Homework and art projects are done here. The way you organize your kitchen can have a significant impact on the way you spend time in the space.

This is our main kitchen utensils drawer that houses specialty items like whisks, a garlic press, thermometers, pizza cutters, measuring cups and spoons, tongs, and large serving spoons. In our previous kitchen these took over two drawers, but in this new kitchen one large drawer was the perfect size!

The drawer organizers in this drawer are mesh metal, which I have owned for years and years. While it was tempting to switch to bamboo (my favorite for drawers) I decided to be practical and use what I had. Luckily, they match nicely and fit well together! Our other main cooking utensils are in a pot on the countertop (spatulas, wooden spoons).

The lower of the two deep kitchen drawers houses our less-frequently-used but more heavy-duty pieces: a skillet and Blanc Creatives carbon steel frying pan and a Lodge cast iron skillet. We use these mostly for searing dinner foods, so they get the bottom drawer spot. Whenever we get a stainless steel stock pot, it will go down here too.

Moving on to the island!! The top drawer is our plate drawer. When deciding where to put our plates, I knew I wanted them up top because we use them most often, so getting one out or unloading the dishwasher (behind me) could be done without bending over to open and close. We keep three sizes of plates in here: Pottery Barn classic coupe dinner plates, classic salad plates, and in the middle a set of tiny appetizer plates that everyone needs for things like a single cupcake or a few apple slices!

Under the plates in a deep drawer are our bowls! We have some shallow pasta bowls (like these), handled bowls that we use for soups (like these) and deep cereal bowls (like these!). (Ours are from Pottery Barn but they are no longer sold from what I can tell.) I also have some KERF bowls that are smaller and perfect for yogurt, cereal, etc.

You might know from Instagram that I also had all of our water bottles in here at one point. I bought a water bottle holder I got on Amazon to keep them from rolling left to right, but they were still shifting front to back rolling across the bottom of the drawer. But rather than buy a drawer divider system, I decided to just move them to the pantry. So now this drawer is lunchboxes only!

Flipping around to the right of the dishwasher is our silverware drawer. I felt strongly that this be a single, smaller drawer literally right next to the dishwasher for easy unloading. Since our dishwasher has a tray on the top, that means there is zero bending over. (You can tell I feel strongly about my hatred for bending over when planning organization spaces, haha.)

The next drawer down is our serving and grill drawer. These are all pieces I use on holidays / dinner parties / or fancy occasions and not every day. Plus a few baking items for the KitchenAid and a rolling pin.

And the bottom drawer is the kiddo drawer for cups, bowls, and plates for Birch. He picked this drawer because he can easily reach it. We are probably almost phased out of it at this point, but he still uses most of these things currently.

On the countertop, visualize where things will go. Group like things with like and think about not only what you use together (plates together, silverware together) but also where in your kitchen you use it. It was extremely important to me that our everyday dishes and flatware be as close to the dishwasher as humanly possible. We put cooking things next to the stove and food storage things where we usually are wrapping up leftovers. Less used items go in the bottom drawers.

From top to bottom, they hold random utensils, our glass Tupperware, and then our Tupperware lids. I know Tupperware can get out of control quickly. We like separating lids and tops so you can easily stack the glass.

We added two slim pull-outs to the left and right of the stovetop when we ordered our kitchen cabinets. The one on the left holds our baking sheets and a cooling rack. The one on the right holds our utensils, oils, and a few more spices.

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It follows that if you have a large space, you might as well use it to store your largest stuff. In the kitchen, that group usually includes pots and pans and smaller appliances. Fit as many of your big guys inside the drawer as you can without overcrowding, and then be done with it.

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