It doesn’t matter how spotless your kitchen is. If you have a counter full of appliances and a whatever, wherever tactic for food storage, your kitchen will inevitably look cluttered.
We tapped two organizational experts—Danielle Dorn, design director of mDesign, and Morgan Ovens, founder of Haven Home Wellness—for their top tips for reducing kitchen clutter. Read on for six quick and easy tasks you can complete today. Clean, clutter-free kitchen, here you come.
Don’t stop at spring cleaning—your kitchen deserves a refresh in the summer, fall, and winter too. Once a season, Dorn recommends taking everything out of your kitchen cabinets and giving them a serious scrub. Seasonal deep cleans make everyday maintenance that much easier.
Pulling down empty bins and canisters makes for an ideal time to wipe down the inside of the cabinet, Dorn says.
“While I’m cleaning, it’s easy to see which cereal is low or if I am almost out of snacks for the kids which provides an unexpected upside to my cleaning routine—it keeps me organized in other areas of my life," she says.
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Your grandma’s serving platter that you break out once a year for Thanksgiving dinner shouldn’t take up valuable space in your most accessible kitchen cabinets.
If you have overflow storage elsewhere, Ovens suggests moving oversized pieces that you only use for holidays or special occasions there (say, in a dining room cabinet). Keep them dust-free in large clear bins or separated in a cabinet with a soft liner.
“This will give your kitchen cabinets some room to breathe alongside the things you only use on a weekly or daily basis,” Ovens says.
At some point, we’ve all found a forgotten carton of moldy strawberries in the
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