Pour dry ingredients into clear storage containers.
If you yearn to have a kitchen as organized as your closet, consider putting closet shelves to work in the kitchen. Closet shelves can hold your kitchen staples as neatly as they hold your sweaters and shirts. And by installing the shelves on your kitchen walls, you can keep your cooking supplies within easy reach while freeing up precious counter space. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Decide what you want to place on your closet shelves, such as canned goods, herbs, grains, mixing bowls, a blender, cookbooks or boxes of cereal or snacks. Organize your items into similar groups, such as baking ingredients, soups, and dried herbs and spices.
2. Pour quantities of dried goods, such as flour, sugar, rice and dried beans, into their own appropriately sized clear containers or jars. Try to use containers that will stack easily. Place smaller items in baskets or storage bins.
3. Plan your shelving layout. Decide how many shelves you want, how big they should be and where they should be placed. For example, you might want to place a shelf holding plates, bowls and glasses near your dishwasher. You might want to put a shelf holding baking supplies above a counter where you do your food preparation.
4. Install two shelf standards on a wall, using 2 1/2-inch screws. Hook the shelf brackets onto the standards and place the shelf on top. Affix the shelf to the brackets by drilling a hole in the bottom of the shelf that lines up with the hole in the bracket, then drive in a wood screw. Repeat for each shelf you want to mount.
5. Stack taller items behind shorter items so you can see everything on a given shelf. You can put tiered stands on a shelf to arrange cans or jars.
6. Create more storage space by hanging baskets above a shelf to put things in. "Country Living" magazine suggests installing a rod near the top of a shelf to hang pans and tote bags that can hold extra tongs, wooden spoons and other utensils.
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