You have a new job, and you’re even happier moving to a new neighborhood in the city. Your new apartment seems good, and it would be perfect if it were just not for such a fancy kitchen. To add insult to injury, it comes with a total of two drawers and 6 foot cabinets. That was me two years ago. How in the world do they expect me to put all my cooking ingredients, pots, pans and utensils in so little space? I guess I could have given up the idea of cooking entirely and lived on food from Dunkin ‘Donuts. But you know the whole ongoing debate about cholesterol, right? I decided to consult kitchen design books and develop some ideas myself about the type of kitchen design ideas that could help me put everything I needed in an elegant way in the limited space I have.
The first thing I did was look for a place in my kitchen where I could install a small storage rack. I found a slightly poorly designed corner in the kitchen. However, I did not want to take up disk space; I hung a four-story stand on the ceiling with hooks. On the shelf I store my glasses, my coffee mugs, some preserves, potatoes and onions. I have always believed in how pots and pans, teacups and coffee mugs, all within an ear or a handle, belong on a hook. I knew that if I started refilling my pots and pans and the meager shelf space I had (all 6 feet), I would stop having room for anything else. So everything that could be hung was hung on the wall. I have lots of those little hooks that sit in a plastic backing and double-sided adhesive tape. I hung these all over the kitchen walls and all my pots and pans were straight from my hands.
These kitchen storage ideas for storage space, as useful as they were, did not do everything I needed. Where would I e.g. put all my spoons, spatulas, mashers and other odds and ends? This may not be an elegant enough solution for everyone, but I just decided to get several small beautiful plastic containers in the kitchen store, and then I hung these by hooks on the wall as well. They kept all my odds and ended really well.
And finally, I simply did not have enough space on the counter to set up my microwave and my food processor. I needed more countertops, in a kitchen that would not expand. I summoned my carpentry skills and built a small cabinet with a worktop and wheels instead of feet. I placed everything I could not fit in my kitchen in the shelf space in the cupboard and on the worktop. I left this one outside the kitchen most of the time, and only dragged it into the kitchen when I needed it.
With some creative kitchen design ideas for storage, there is no reason why your entire collection of utensils and other cooking equipment can not share the limited space you have.
