Kitchen Pantry Cabinet Redesigns

If you cannot afford to totally redesign and rebuild your kitchen pantry cabinet system (or perhaps you prefer built in pantry cabinets that cannot be modified), then think about borrowing from another well-known industry. Take several ideas from the closet organization field and try to implement them into to your kitchen to reclaim space for short and long term food storage. Adding racks and shelving in key areas can create a thirty to fifty percent increase in your storage area. Using small plastic tubs to keep flat package upright and easily accessible, and adding hooks in key areas to hang utensils or food products that have holes already in them from the grocery store. Utilizing counter space with marked clear glass canister jars for pasta, rice, coffee, sugar, and salt.

The idea behind a great kitchen storage design is foremost visual ease of access to everything that is especially perishable. Having to get down on your knees with a flashlight to find something in your kitchen is just not acceptable. You can easily get many visual design aids online by simply searching on one of the major search engines for the term, “Kitchen Pantry Organizing”. Another good resource would be youtube.com, and just repeat the same search phrase. There are thousands of how to guides on the Internet and most all of them are free.

There are all types of wire bins and racks that you can utilize in redesigning your pantry. You can even hang baskets from the bottom of wood shelves that are open in the front for extra storage. Turntables or Lazy Susan’s can be of greater help when storing sauces and non-refrigerated condiments. If you have enough space on your pantry cabinet floor, utilize this space with stackable wire bins for storing potatoes, and onions. There are also wire multidimensional stands so you use the same space but have a tiered effect so you can see three rows back.

One thing that will help keep your redesigned kitchen pantry cabinet organized is educating others that live in your home to put things back exactly from where they retrieved them from in the first place. Actually it might help if you include everyone in the household when organizing the food so they will see the process and how important it is to keep every item going back to the same place or you will be back where you started. If you feel your pantry is becoming cluttered again, start checking expiration dates and removing unsafe food products to clear up space and then just occasionally check to see if like items are together.  Remember, pantry cabinets are meant to help you keep you kitchen organized and easy to manage.