Revolution Challege-Kitchen

We moved into this house two years ago.  It has a fabulous kitchen with tons of storage space and nice upgrades.  When I started this Revolution Challenge, there were a few cabinets I wanted to clean out and organize.  Little did I know that a few small jars of cookie decorations would change my whole plan! 

 Here are my before and after pictures of my original plan. 

Food Saver accessories, plastic utensils and the Vego Matic found new homes from the top shelf.

Plastic utensils are in the fun orange box on the bottom shelf.  I had room for my new plastic serving plates and bowls I got from Walmart for 48 cents a piece!

 My new mixer I got for Christmas (in September!) and some random lunch bags and contact paper.

Relocated the lunch bags and have room for my reading tote bag.

And now for the the EXTRA KITCHEN ORGANIZATION that fell into my lap this week.

We have this wonderfully upgraded kitchen that is a pain in my ass sometimes.  We have four side by side floor to ceiling slideout pantry drawers that seem wonderful until you actually live with them!  I didn't take before pictures because I didn't plan on organizing these. 




almost the death of me and my pantry

 

Two little jars of cookie sprinkles (that I didn't even know were in there) fell of the shelf and got stuck behind the drawers in the tracks of the lower cabinets so they wouldn't close.  AWESOME!  I couldn't reach them as I've reached behind and retreived other items in the past two years.  I had to take everything out of the cabinets so my one year old wouldn't have access to it and make a bigger disaster.  My husband had to take the two cabinets out to get the little jars out before we could close them.  So a mad dash to IKEA (with three kids five and under!) to find some solution and sanity is restored.



cream and sugar; baking supplies



spices and decorating supplies




upper right cabinet with spices, baking and decorating supplies

 





lower right cabinet with almost two empty shelves





upper left cabinet bottom shelf holds our kids' medicine and tootbrushes








upper left cabinet with teas and coffee; medicine and kids' hygiene supplies

 





lower left cabinet with pasta and extra condiments

 I was able to throw out a grocery bag of expired food.  I relocated my zip loc bags and foil to the cabinet next door to my pantry.  Also found a better spot for the random lunch bags from the cabinet across the room.