Mission Organization ~ Kitchen Cabinets 1

I did this a few weekends ago but didn’t get the chance to post the “after” pic. This is the first installment in my Mission Organization Series. The kitchen is one of my areas with the most amount of misused space. For a bit of background: we moved here due to need, a couple of years back when I lost my job, we were able to move into this duplex in order to save money. Would I have signed a lease here on my own? No, but we’re working with what we’ve got. So this kitchen didn’t work out for us from the onset. There’s a drawer that doesn’t work, the cabinet configuration doesn’t make the most sense, I could go on and on, but I won’t. So the first area I wanted to address are my cabinets.

As you can see, this doesn’t look like it works. With kids, you have all kinds of shaped bowls and plates. You have the plates with divider trays and they don’t stack. What you see on top boxed up are dishes that we’ve never unpacked from our wedding gift of a complete dishware set.

This 6 pc organizer set is just under $13 at Walmart. I’m going to get several more of these so that I can organize the kitchen and other areas as well. These plastic pieces are deceptively strong, because my wedding dishes are porcelain and they’re heavy, and these hold them up very well.

This after picture makes me smile! Everything has it’s place. Everytime I open this cabinet it makes me feel good. This took less than 15 minutes to do. There was nothing to install. {it comes with a piece that can be attached to a door, but I haven’t used that yet} So for less than $15 and 15 minutes you can make a change in a space in your home. This is only the beginning! I have a problem with being a little scatter-brained sometimes…I will get gung ho with a project and then will go from room to room but never complete a space…so it’s a process.

Stay tuned for more because I’ve been real busy organizing our home!