Tips On Creating A Practical Storage Area In The Kitchen

Storing kitchen appliances in the storage area that is practical, effective, and does not require much space.

For those of you who like to move in the kitchen, would often look messy kitchen conditions. One reason that is due to poor storage space area or kitchen utensils and other kitchen appliances, so that these items can not be accommodated in it properly.

This condition is exacerbated when a storage area that is relatively narrow and fairly poor organization, while objects that must be accommodated in the storage area very much.

As a result, many objects placed just at the corners of the kitchen and leave unsightly scenery. Arrangement of kitchen equipment that is not right also cause us trouble when we want to find the tools we need.

The solution of these confusions is to provide effective and efficient storage to accommodate all the cooking utensils. Therefore, here are some interesting ideas about the storage area in the kitchen that you must know.

1. Vertical space

If your kitchen is relatively small, you can try to explore the vertical areas (vertical space) that is in your kitchen and then transformed into a kitchen storage. This vertical area can be realized on the kitchen wall by installing some equipment such as small shelves, hangers, kitchen cabinet, etc. If you choose to use the rack, you can make it yourself by preparing some wooden boards nailed / glued, then mounted on the kitchen wall.

This rack is useful for placing cookware / tableware are light and not too large, for example, bowls, cups, saucers, spoons, and forks. Position height with height and reach of your hand so that objects placed in this area are easy to reach.

If you want to make a shelf to put spices kitchen, you should put the rack far away from the stove. Because, the heat from the stove could damage the flavor of the spices kitchen, and will make it faster to dry / withered before they could be used.

You can also use the hanger (hook) or canisters to place cookware that is still wet after being washed before storing them in the kitchen cabinet.

Therefore, if the cookware is still wet directly stored in a cupboard or cabinet, it is feared will become moist and cause the growth of fungi on their surface.

Peg board / peg board can also be used for storing kitchen appliances. Typically, peg board is mounted fused with the inside kitchen cabinet.

2. Kitchen cart

Kitchen cart is a storage area that can be moved or changed his position because at the bottom / legs, there are wheels, so that if we want to move, simply by pushing this cart kitchen. Kitchen cart will be very useful as extra storage space. In the kitchen cart, the top there is a flat pedestal made of wood or metal that allows us to slice and food processing on it in the cooking process.

On the bottom there is a kind of basket made of iron or other metal ring, which can be used to put a medium-sized kitchen appliances, such as plates, basins, pans, Teflon, etc.

3. The drawers, cabinets, and pull-out

Drawers, usually located under the counter or kitchen island is very useful to be used as an area storing cookware that is small, such as various types of knives (butcher knife, bread knife), a can opener, coaster, spoon, fork, rice scoop, and other small objects.

For kitchen cabinets (kitchen cabinet), this thing is more often used to store objects that are medium to large.

You can enable the kitchen cabinet to put objects that are rarely used every day and only used on celebrations or certain days only, for example, a set of ceramic teapots and cups, glass jars, spare plate, place vegetables on the glass, etc.

While the pull-out is actually almost the same as the drawer (drawer) or can be called a combination of drawer and cabinet. Only, pull-out is usually placed at strategic corners.

Pull out of this more flexible and dynamic than usual drawer. Pullout also does not take up much space, because usually designed attached to the wall or be a part of the wall itself, so that its position is somewhat hidden.

After learning some of the ideas of storage space in the kitchen, you should immediately put it into practice at home. But do not forget, always note the location from one place to another storage place, lest the distances are too close together. In addition, make sure the storage area where this does not interfere with your mobility while in the kitchen. You also need to consider the aesthetics of the kitchen by putting all the kitchen appliances here, especially large kitchen appliances.

If the relatively small size of your kitchen, you should put a large kitchen appliances, and is rarely used as a steamer, grill or toaster elsewhere. You should make a small room near the kitchen specifically to put cookware.



Good Luck!