What to do if the kitchen is limited square meters, and there is no special storeroom in it? How to properly organize storage systems and fit all kitchen utensils? We have prepared 7 practical ideas and 25 visual examples that will help keep in order small-sized kitchen.
1. Open shelves

On the open shelves can be stored
Open shelves can be installed in any part of the kitchen - on the free wall, in the niche, in the intervals between furniture and appliances, in the corners, under the ceiling. They are also good because the space does not visually reduce, but give him the future, create a feeling of easy. On such shelves, it is convenient to store plates, cups, glasses, spices and favorite culinary books.

Open shelves are great save space

Open shelves do not overload space

Interesting storage of dishes on open shelves

Stylish open shelves in the interior of a small kitchen
2. Place by the window

You can equip a place by the window
In a small kitchen, you need to use all the space. And not only on the walls. It is worth paying attention to the location by the window. Here you can also install small shelves or use the windowsill as a working surface. It is convenient to store a mixer, coffee maker, dishes on it.

Option of use of the window by the window
3. Cookware on the wall
In the event that a lot and pans are a lot, and there is little storage locations - can be stored directly on the walls. For these purposes, they should be in perfect condition - well washed and brushed, so that it looks aesthetic.

You can hang pots and frying pan right on the wall
In order to fix the dishes on the wall, it is enough to use the rains and rails. Of course, if you wish, you can make a special hook board for which it is convenient to hang the necessary items.

Pan and skils on the rails

You can make a special hook board
4. Raleigh
Realits are real assistants of modern owners. With the help of structures in several floors you can store not only mylovnikov, blades and whites. Some models are able to fit plates, cups, covers from saucepan and table objects.

Sample storage of dishes on a small kitchen

Railways in the kitchen interior
On magnetic models it is convenient to store knives, scissors, fix sheets with recipes on them. On rails with hooks perfectly spread cups, pan, towels, noise. There are samples that provide a place for storing paper towels, food films, foil.

On magnetic rails it is convenient to store knives

On some models there are places for storing paper towels
Realies, like open shelves - universal. They can be installed on kitchen apron, free walls and fragments near the cabinets. It is best if they are located as close as possible to the working triangle so that the hostess always quickly could take the desired spice or dishes.


On the rails you can store covers from a saucepan

Comfortable storage pockets


Convenient roads in the kitchen
5. Storage of vegetables
If there is no separate pantry in a small kitchen, then you need to think about the competent storage of vegetables. One of better options - Hide them into one or more drawers. The main thing is that it is located in a dry place (not near the sink) and well ventilated. Vegetables It is advisable to store not in polyethylene packages, but in baskets that pass the air. It can be wicker or metal models.
In the cabinet the potatoes and other vegetables will be limited to the admission of light, which will extend their storage. Greens, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini can be stored on the lower shelf in the refrigerator or in special containers, which are provided in any refrigerator.

Storage option of vegetables, if there is no pantry in the apartment
6. Order in the cabinets
Sometimes, with sufficient cabinets, a deficiency of storage systems occurs. All because of the wrong organization of space inside them. How to put everything in order?
First of all, it is necessary to pack all the bulk products on glass or plastic cans, sign them for convenient search for the desired cereals.
Then you need to go through dishes and get rid of broken and unsuitable plates, cups, saucepan.
Those items that are less likely to be used to remove the highest shelves.
To make it convenient to get a jar with a certain cereal or spice, you need to build vessels in this way: high banks are lined up (near the wall of the cabinet), the average is put in front of them, and the smallest containers are located closer to the door.

Competent storage of dishes in the cabinets

Proper placement of dishes

Storage Crow on Small Kitchen

Storage frying pan and baking forms

Store cereals convenient in plastic and glass jars
7. Under the sink
When the issue with storing dishes, vegetables and products is resolved, it remains to figure out where to hide household chemicals? The detergent, cleaner, sponge and gloves as well as a broom with a scoop and a garbage bucket, it is best to remove under the sink. Here it is advisable to equip comfortable shelves or take advantage of drawn containers on wheels, which can be used in a shopping store. For the storage of household trifles, conventional plastic and metal boxes are suitable.

Storage under the sink

Today, as I promised, we will talk about the organization of our kitchen cabinets and boxes.

Since the kitchen is a very individual space that carries an imprint of the character and habits of its owners and is very different from home to the house at least in such characteristics, as its size, the intensity of use, functionality, thoughtfulness at the planning stage and many more and many Others, it is very difficult to give what universal instructions regarding the guidance of order. However, I want to offer you several recommendations that will help you in the difficult thing to organize such a difficult room, like a kitchen.

1. Throw out too much

The main rule of the guidance of order in kitchen cabinets and boxes - get rid of extra and unnecessary, grouped together similar to the function and use of objects, and the groups received to place in the zones of their use.

First of all, I want to warn you from attempts to disassemble everything and once. Considering that sometimes it is possible to disassemble one kitchen boxes, it is also difficult to bring up the room as a whole room, the likelihood that your fuse or temporary resources runs out as soon as you remove all the contents of all boxes and lockers, which will lead to even greater chaos. Therefore, the surest way to achieve the desired result is not to hurry and smash the work on the steps (for example, one box per day).

At this stage, our goal is to free the place in the cabinets and boxes to store what you really use. As a result of the work done, you should be able to easily and quickly find the right thing, not spending extra effort on shifting other items. In addition, boxes and cabinets should be easily open and when opening it should not fall out. To achieve this, you must maximally assess the usefulness of one or another item, ruthlessly getting rid of everything dubious and low (is it true you need so many containers or so many knives? What is the use in a container without a lid?).

1. Sore and spread left things on their use zones.

In the previous article we already concerned the issue of zoning the kitchen. It is the zoning of a kitchen to tell you where and what to keep in terms of ergonomics

• Storage: Zone "Storage" is used to accommodate such things as:
  Cutlery;
  Economic trivia;
  Small electrical appliances.

In addition, the food is stored in this area, so there is a refrigerator for the placement of perishable and frozen products.

• Sink: In this area there is a dishwasher, if it is meant, washing with a wardrobe. In the closet you can put:
  Bucket for garbage;
  Cleaning products and inventory;
  Dishwashing agents;
  Garbage bags.

But be careful: in the locker under the sink also there are pipes - which means that there is always a danger of leaks. Therefore, things that you store there must be securely protected from water, and the storage system used should not prevent free access to the pipes.

• Cutting and preparation of products: This zone is the main workspace in the kitchen. In this area, it is recommended to place kitchenwarewho are needed for cooking. For example:
  Cutting boards;
  Vinegar, oil, etc.;
  Spices and seasonings;
  Bowls and bowls;
  Food processors, meat grinder and other technique.

In addition, in this zone, you can store open and frequently used products.

• Thermal processing of food: the cooking zone is undoubtedly one of the main working areas of each kitchen. It contains a stove, extractor, oven. It is there that it is best to store items used for cooking on a stove and in the oven. For example:
  Pans;
  Pans;
  Nitens and lattice;
  Baking shapes and foil;
  Devices and components for baking;
  Cloth-tacks.

Even in the smallest kitchen, you can easily select the most sought-after from these zones.

At this stage, you are required to place the remaining items in those areas of the kitchen, where they are most often used to not waste time on their search.

1. Decay things in places

Now that we have determined that in which zone should be stored, it is necessary to decompose things to gently in our place.

It is important to remember that the most frequently used items must be stored in the zone of your availability (the space that you can see well and before where you can reach, without getting on the socks and not squeezing).

Boxes

Here I remembered one video dedicated to the guidance of order in kitchen drawers. The author pulls one of his boxes. It is pretty chaotic to lie various economic supplies (sponges for dishes, packages, gauze, foil, etc.). The lady pulls everything, lins the bottom of the paper, and then everything in the free order folds back. Honestly, it was very similar to picking up puzzles - which was placed where it was left. So: so should not be in any case! Throw everything too much, folded back as the necessary items fell - this is a direct path to the mess. Such an order with the active use of the box will last for a week, and then all things are mixed again, and you will return to what they started.

At this stage, you are important to limit the free movement of things in the box. Here are some tools that will help this achieve:

• Dividers for the shelves. Probably, each mistress in one of the drawers has a separator for storing cutlery. Why not use separators and in others? Moreover, their diversity will allow you to choose the desired based on what and where you need to share.

• Plastic baskets. I have already devoted them a whole ODU, praising their numerous advantages and possibilities of use. Organization of order in the box - one of them

• Unnecessary boxes. Why carry extra objects to the house (even if they are intended to maintain order) when you can use already available?

What is better to store in the boxes:

The most frequently used items are more expedient to be stored in drawersthat simplifies access to them. It can be:

• Kitchen objects of essentials, such as canning knives, garlic press and so on. Usually they are stored together in one box.
• If you often do pastries, you may want to have a separate box only for measuring cups, measuring spoons, molds and other devices.
• You can highlight place in the box for kitchen towels and tapes
• In the bottom drawer, you can store grocery products, like croup, flour, salt, sugar, etc.
• You may need a separate storage box for food containers and objects such as foil and parchment for baking.

By the way, a couple of words about containers. Prefer the square and rectangular preference - during storage they take less space!

Cabinets.

What are we most often stored in lockers?

• A variety of dishes: cups, plates, bowls.
• Fine household appliances (Remember that this is a heavier device, the closer to the floor it should be stored).
• Grocery and seasoning

From the point of view of the organization, the lockers are much inferior to the convenience of drawers.

In the case of cabinets, due to their constructive features, quite a lot of empty space is formed, due to the inconvenience of use without special organizers. For example, in the depths of the locker - this space can be used to store rarely used things, but the risk of losing them at all. Commitely selected organizers will help you to cope with these inconveniences. I would especially allocate the following.

• Multi-tiered stands (usually two-, three-). The items put on it are well visible even in the depths of the cabinet. If there is no desire to spend on a special stand, you can build something similar to yourself, putting deep into the cabinet unnecessary narrow box and exposing things to it.

Wood-Mode Fine Custom Cabinetry, © houzz

When the work surface is tightly occupied by household appliances and dishes, cook becomes just nowhere. This picture is well known to the owners small kitchens. How to unload the worktop, we will still talk, but you can act from nasty. For example, add heads retractable panel instead of one thing upper boxes. The simplest script is to turn the drawer to the bottom up, strengthen the extra panel and thus get a stationary cutting board.

Dewils Custom Cabinetry, © houzz

Bottom part kitchen headset Also can work for you. Remove the decorative panel, order a narrow pull-out drawer on the width of the module and manage it as you like. The space of 10-15 centimeters height is suitable for storing wide utensils ( festive dish, Fighting, massive covers) or it will be useful to your domestic pets. We know how you're tired of stupid about the bowl with food under your feet.

3. Cups at hand

The Kitchen Design Center, © houzz

Cups and plates are customary to put the headset in the upper sections, and the pans are in the bottom. This is a proven over the years, but not the only possible storage scenario. Look at how many cups and glasses are placed in a conventional drawer under the working surface. At the same time, all items in sight - you no longer have to get up on the tiptoe and painfully look for a favorite cup in dark bowels of the suspended cabinet.

4. What is under your sink?

Design Set Match, © houzz

Let's try to guess: pipes, garbage bucket and an ominous warehouse of household chemicals. Given the depth of the kitchen headset, you most likely forgot to be hidden by the wall, not to mention the way to climb the sink with your head and make cleaning in the corners. The simplest retractable box with low walls comes to the rescue, as in the photo. The price of components - both for two lunch in a cafe plus minimum labor costs.

Kitchen Interiors, © houzz

Doors of the cabinet not only the barrier for dust, but also the useful storage area. Mount the internal shelves to the depth of the CO jar, and you will no longer have to wonder how it is convenient to arrange kitchen trivia.

Jory Workshop, © houzz

Half, noise and whims, especially if there are many of them, are not always placed in a horizontal box. Exit - to organize storage vertically. It is suitable for any narrow section of the headset, such as a bottle, if it is for you to anything. To turn a narrow box to a vertical storage system, it is enough to cut in any panel of the circle on the diameter of glasses. So kitchenware It turns out at hand, and the glasses will easily take out and wash if necessary.

Liv by Design Interiors, © houzz

Board with holes "like in a garage" or metal grid - quite worthy decorative elementif it is correct to file it. Feel free to paint the board in the tint of the kitchen and hang it on the apron or the stenitude, which will be found even in the tiny room itself. Storage opportunities at such a board are almost limitless: a pair of metal hooks from the store for the house, and you can raise a frying pan, tacks and even a section for a sponge - what is enough fantasy.

Mullet Cabinet, © houzz

One more useful idea With a perforated board - to lay it inside a deep drawer and add vertical slats under the size of the dishes. Now here you can store not only the pans, but also ceramics: plates and saucers do not break up, even if you sharply slam the box.

Dura Supreme Cabinetry, © houzz

Pans and lids in the kitchen often have to be separated due to the large diameter and large dimensions. All would not, but at the most inopportune moment, the couple is often lost. To collect large utensils in one place, care space for covers with a narrow pocket inside a common large drawer. With this location, you will be clearly visible to the diameter of the dishes.

10. Jump everything

Kootut Murut, © houzz

On the bottom surface of the closed box or open shelves You can mount neat hooks and store coffee cups, brushes or blades on them. As practice shows, the hooks do not happen much: in our example, several systems operate in the photo.

11. Levitating jars for spices

Joanna Thornhill Interiors, © houzz

Separate seasonings on the table top - it means to subscribe to the eternal mess: banks will fall from any random movement, and to make it elementary, it will have to shift the entire "battery" to a safe distance. It is much easier to fix them under the top line of kitchen cabinets: stick the lids and unscrew the cans themselves.

Ptacek Home, © houzz

The angle of the sample headset is perhaps the most mysterious place in the kitchen. Usually, the skils that are sorry for you to throw away, although it's time for a long time, or a crazy, which you take once a year. So that precious meters do not disappear in vain, add corner cupboard Rotary-retractable basket or regiment-cararel. Both can be built into the finished kitchen, and the components find from most manufacturers.

Masterbrand Cabinets, Inc, © houzz

Hall and kitchen - two rooms that most often need cleaning. But, ready to argue, you did not design a niche for mop and other large accessories in the kitchen. It is not too late to correct the deficiency: the problem will solve a very narrow end cabinet, which organically closes the kitchen line.

14. Knives in the tabletop

Hendel Homes, © houzz

Cookinists with experience advise: Before starting to cook, get not only ingredients, but also all the necessary dishes. But no matter how we tried to follow the smart recommendations, it is sure to turn out that right now you need a completely different knife and it lies in the box where you don't want to climb dirty hands.

If the tabletop material allows you to make feeds in it. To such a storage system, small children will not be completely distinguished, and the knives will always be ready. If the countertop does not succumb to processing, you can provide a special wooden insert for the knives.

Ink Architecture + Interiors, © houzz

If the refrigerator is not embedded in the general system of cabinets, then the space above it is most likely empty and this is a crime against ergonomics. Between the refrigerator and the ceiling, you can mount a full-fledged mezzanine with closed shelves or open sections for bottles, as in our example.

For all modern owners kitchen - one of the most important rooms in the housewhere they spend a lot of time. For them it is a real workplaceYou need to equip under your own needs.

As you want, the kitchen is cozy, comfortable and very functional! It turns out comfort and maximum convenience can be made with your own hands, We will make a little imagination and patience.

Trivia for kitchen

Unfortunately, most modern apartments, especially built several decades ago, do not boast big spacious kitchensTherefore, hostesses have to resort to different tricks to save space.

In the cabinets under the sink, there are usually no one shelves, but all detergents and cleaning products may not fit. To save place and not install additional shelves, you can, for example, attach a metal pipe into the top of the locker.

In this case, was used old crossbar for bathroom curtainand. The pipe can easily hang cleaning products in bottles with sprayers.

Magnets You can use for storing knives or scissors. Convenience is that the knives are easy to get at any time.

Rubber gloves and rags for dust and washing You can equip hooks or hinges and hang them dry in a closet under the sink on the inside of the door. The same can be done with brushes.

Often you can face a problem as more aesthetically stored plastic bags. Usually packages are put in one large package and thus stored, but you can sew the fabric long narrow sac. It will look original and do not spoil comfort.

For hanging towels use ordinary clothespins. To do this, you need to glue them to the wall or attach to the suction cups on the wall. Such a way to keep towels will look very original and will save you from buying hooks and drilling holes for them.

Important attributes of any kitchen are spices and various loose substances, sort of sugar, salt, croup, which are always important for cooking. You need not only to store them correctly, but also put them so that they are always easy to get and put in place. Here are some tips on how best to keep spices.

Beautiful will look at the spices placed in same jars or bottles, then they are not necessarily hiding somewhere in the cabinets. You can adapt the shelves at the edge of the table.

Another option: to put the jars with spices right above the working surface on special adapted shelves. Then the spices will always be at hand.

If you can find sets of bottles for spices, which have special covers In order to hang them on the crossbar, then the spices can be accommodated next to other kitchen accessories.

Spices in jars on a magnet. If you have the opportunity to find similar jars that are equipped with magnets, then with the help of steel sheet, they can be stored attached to the door of the kitchen cabinet.

However, you can buy and ordinary plastic jars and glued to their bottom flat magnetic plates.

In order to make magnetic jars You will need a magnetic leaf, banks (better plastic) with dense lids, scissors, pencil, glue and ordinary paper.

1) With the help of a pencil circle the bottom of the jar on a sheet of magnetic paper.

2) Cut in the contour as many circles as you are in the presence of jars.

3) Stick Magnets to the bottom of the cans, let it dry well.

4) Cut paper strips for inscriptions.

5) Stick paper strips on the lid.

6) Subscribe the names of the spices that you will be stored in jars.

7) In order to keep magnetic jars vertically, you should also have available magnetic board.

Original idea Use magnetic lidswho are attached to the refrigerator on the side. Instead of conventional magnets, you can hold on the surface of the refrigerator magnets-jars with spices.

Another option to store spices - two-storey stands. They will save a lot of space in the lockers:

By the way, spice Storage Shelves You can make yourself using plywood and nails.

Spices can be stored in special drawerswhich are made to order for maximum saving space.

The original method of storage of spices - in jars whose covers screwed from the bottom of the shelf. Taking the spices, you will have to unscrew the cans from the nailed covers.

Storage of vegetables in the kitchen

Some types of vegetables do not necessarily store in the refrigerator or on the balcony. Moreover, in winter it can be very cold, so vegetables are often transferred to heat so that they do not froze. Vegetables are most convenient to store in the kitchen in special boxes.

If the place allows, you can put vegetables in baskets, and baskets in drawers. Baskets can be revealed at any time.

It should be remembered that not all vegetables are well stored in warm conditionsTherefore, too large cabinets should not be made and store large batch of vegetables. It is better to store for storage for several kilograms of potatoes or onions, and as the reserves are exhausted new. Vegetables can also be placed in wooden boxes or baskets with covers.

An interesting idea of \u200b\u200bstoring vegetables in bags on ropessuspended on the wall. The only problem is that the bags you will often wash, especially if you store potatoes, beets and other roots. Bags can be sewed from linen or cotton fabricwhich in color is harmony with the kitchen design.

It will look original baskets, hung right on the walls where can be placed vegetables or fruits. These baskets will perform in the role of functional design details.

In the kitchen usually a lot bulk utensilswithout which cooking is impossible. In addition to plates and cups, you will need to store the pans, pans, caulders and much more. To save space a little and accommodate everything, you can use the following tips:

One of the most convenient ways of storage metal dishes, more precisely, more flat frying pan, cooks and so on - this is their hanging on the wall. Around the perimeter of the kitchen can be attached pipe with hooksFor which pans and other utensils are hanging.

If you have enough space in the kitchen and high ceilings, you can sink dishes right above the table, attaching to the ceiling special design for this. The only minus such a decision is that the pot will hang over your head all the time.

If the design "all in sight does not suit you, then the dishes will have to hide in special lockers intended for herwhich are part of the furniture.

Or like this:

Crafts for kitchen with their own hands

In order for your kitchen more cozy, you can decorate it different handmade craftswho will always please the eye, and also give your loyal assistants. Here are several interesting ideas Accessories for the kitchen performed by their own hands.

Clothespins, decorated with inscriptions and bows, can be glued to the wall so that they keep towels or tacks.

Knitted hats for kettle (You can make from the old header). Such a cap will allow you to keep warm well, and tea in the kettle will be brewed faster.

Original hot Patterns. They can be made any form and any color. The most beautiful will decorate the kitchen.

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Kitchen tags do it yourself

Some fabric accessories that will be suitable in each kitchen can be easily made independently for themselves, or present close as a gift. Very necessary thing in the kitchen is fucking for hot dishes. We offer you several options for the manufacture of this accessory.