Small Amount of Organizing

2016 will hopefully be the year this house gets completely organized, among other things that we'd like to get done. Instead of making a push to clean everything in one day, working on small areas a little bit each day. Main starting focus has been in the kitchen. Biggest downfall for me on the kitchen is that it's so small, though probably still bigger than some i've seen pictures of.

The organizing is still a work in progress but wanted to share 2 drawers i got done that look so much nicer now.

First drawer, the silverware drawer.

Some time ago, we had already switched drawers with the junk drawer because we got this organizer and the drawer we originally had the silverware in was too small for the tray. I don't remember why i organized it going in towards the drawer, making us have to open the drawer more to get to the large spoons. I ended up switching the side that the peelers and can opener are one just for a change. Went through my daughter's spoons and got rid of all the baby spoons and too long for the space ones. There's still some small spoons in there that were just a little bigger than the baby spoons. The upper right corner ended up getting filled with some of our measuring spoons. Just looks so much nicer with the silverware going the way i moved them.


The other drawer is our, i guess random kitchen utensils drawer? It's just under the silverware drawer and we just mostly put in there the stuff that we didn't have another space for it.

As you can see, the drawer was just full of random stuff and you had to dig to just find a measuring spoon. I took everything out of the drawer to just start over. First thing i found out was that we have a hole in the bottom of it!

I pushed on it and it seems still fairly sturdy that i don't think our stuff will just break through. Just another thing to at some point get fixed. In the future, it is planned to replace all the cabinets, too bad can't be sooner lol.

Anyways, with the drawer, i started off with changing the boxes in it for organizing as the other ones were really old and bottoms were just dirty. Kept one of them just because of not having another box of that size. Loved that i had boxes the right size to keep the measuring cups and spoons in their own boxes. The old way we either had to keep them in the same one or the spoons would get just buried and hard to get to. Now they are much easier to get to. There's still some items that hadn't been put back in or we threw out because we never used it. Hardest part of this drawer was that i had to clean like everything from the drawer. After switching drawers for the silverware, that drawer started to get opened more often and it started to like drop crud onto the stuff in this drawer. i tried washing the track to see if that helps.

There's still a long way to go with getting the kitchen completely organized. Have more drawers to go through and the cabinets to go through. And that's just the kitchen, just OMG on the rest of the house to be done LOL. Maybe once the whole kitchen is done, i'll share the little kitchen and show how it has been organized. Possibly more small posts if i get them.

Do you have any kitchen organizing tips or just amazing kitchen products you love? Like style of serving spoons, etc.