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How to Plan Your Kitchen Cabinet Storage for Maximum Efficiency

Planning for kitchen cabinet storage is one of the most important considerations when planning a kitchen remodel or addition. It’s important to plan for only the genuine needs in your new kitchen because cabinets are the highest-cost item in your remodeling budget. Make sure you plan enough cabinets for your needs without installing a large amount of additional cabinet space.

There are several ways to estimate your storage needs when designing your new or remodeled kitchen.

  • Measure the cabinets you currently have and replace with new cabinets in identical sizes.
  • Get everything out of your cabinets, combining items appropriately into groups that would go into individual cabinets. Then measure the items (used space) and assess the size and number of cabinets needed.
  • Keep in mind that your new cabinets are primarily kitchen organizers. Look at the items that are currently in your cabinets. What could you rearrange to use the space more efficiently? What could you move to a less accessible space (because you use it less often)?
  • Consider other items that you would like to be able to store in your new kitchen cabinets; then add this to your calculations.
  • Check out all the specialized types of cabinets available in the wood, color, and pattern you want. You can consider refrigerator drawers, pull-out cabinets, sliding shelves, drawers that hold pots and pans in the deeper lower section, and lids in a smaller upper section. There are many new settings every year.
  • Plan the location of your appliances, hob, ovens, etc. and then plan the cabinets around it.
  • The best approach to cabinet planning might be to work with a kitchen designer, your contractor, or your cabinetmaker to place appliances and cabinets where they can make things readily available where you need them for entertaining, cooking, or cleaning.

The next step in planning your cabinets in a way that will make your kitchen more efficient is evaluating how you can maximize your cabinet space with various cabinet organizers. You have access to an amazing variety of organizing devices for drawers, cabinets, and other spaces in your kitchen. For example:

  1. Use special size drawers or odd-sized extra space to store canned goods, bottled drinks, etc.
  2. Use a Lazy Susan to make items in the back of the highest or lowest cabinets accessible.
  3. Use drawer dividers to keep a kitchen utensil drawer organized and tidy.
  4. Instead of wasting the top half of each shelf in a cabinet, install a two-tier Lazy Susan.

You can also maximize your storage space with special custom cabinets. Instead of losing access to things in the back of a base corner cabinet, install a cabinet with a built-in Lazy Susan. Another idea is to ask your cabinetmaker to build you a tall, narrow cabinet next to the oven for pizza trays, cookie sheets, and the like. Consider cabinets equipped with smaller shelves, slanted racks for canned drinks, etc., and install a special cabinet under the sink equipped with a slide-out rack for the trash can or a frame for the garbage bag and a small device for storing the additional garbage. trousers.

Once you understand the many options available to you when planning kitchen cabinet storage, it will be much easier to plan a kitchen in the style and design you want the most while ensuring that it will have the type and layout. amount of storage space you need. A little imagination and a little creative planning will result in the kitchen of your dreams.

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