Apartment living 101: maximize storage space… every darn centimeter! Living in a one bedroom apartment for two seems like plenty of room the first year and then you start to realize how fast you can outgrow the space. Our food processor alone takes up half the kitchen. Each new item we bring home stresses me out, but I love growing our home and actually geek out to these organization projects. You have to get creative with the space you have and the kitchen was my first task. All of this was super affordable – less than $200 from IKEA. You can definitely up the quality of containers, but I probably won’t convert until I own a home and completely re-do our kitchen.
(ps… be prepared… don’t judge our before photos.)
Step 1:Take EVERYTHING out of your cabinets and start to toss and organize. Once you decide what you want to keep stocked, create a note writing each item down and what size jar it will need. This makes the shopping portion a breeze.
CABINET #1 BEFORE: We hadn’t touched so much of this stuff, so it was a good purge sesh.
STEP 2: Clean and organize all the jars.
Our cabinets are long and narrow, which makes certain things not as easily accessible. I just positioned items based on how frequently we reach for them on the daily.
- Top shelf: I took the canned items and put them on the top back shelf. In front is “bad snacks” aka processed lol. Peanut butter pretzels, pita chips, wheat thins, etc.
- Middle shelf: All the larger storage items. pastas, rice (love my rice), sugar, flour, etc.
- Lower shelf: Nuts, dried fruit, oats, chia seeds, coconut shreds, etc.
Lower lower shelves.
- The basket has popcorn and protein bars.
- Very bottom is Charlie’s protein powder, my protein powder and collagen peptides. Certain supplements like my spirulina I kept in original dark jar behind those.
CABINET #2
