Five Tips to Organized Top Kitchen Cabinets

Everyone knows what the top kitchen cabinets are really for. They are the place to throw everything that has no designated space. Often hard to reach and awkward to manage, the modern top kitchen cabinet has, today, become a dumping ground. It doesn’t have to be like this, however. With only one hour to spare in your busy day, you can easily transform your top kitchen cabinets into an organized and usable space. Here’s how:

1. Enjoy Lazy Susans! Lazy Susans are one of the best modern inventions of our time. A round Lazy Susan allows you to store more items on one shelf and to do so in an organized fashion. Whether you have space for a 2 tier Lazy Susan, or a 3 tier one, you’ll gain ample storage space with one of these units. A kitchen cabinet Lazy Susan ensures that you don’t have to unload half of your supplies to find that salt shaker – you simply have to rotate the unit until the desired item is retrieved.
2. Baking Supplies – One you have your plastic Lazy Susan or wood Lazy Susan in place, you can begin to organize your top cabinets with ease. Go through the kitchen finding all of your baking supplies and put them on the bottom level of the Lazy Susan together. This will ensure that you know where all of your baking materials are – and it will keep them together in one organized location.
3. Storage Containers – Next, tackle your storage containers. Most of us have storage containers all over the kitchen and we find, if we really look, that we have many mismatched containers. Gather together all of your storage containers and match the tops to the bottoms. Immediately throw away any containers that don’t have both tops and bottoms to them. Next, stack these containers inside each other and stack the lids together. Put these on the top tier of the 2-tier Lazy Susan.
4. The Spice Of Life – Gather all of your spices together and organize these on a top cabinet shelf as well. There are many spice racks and spice organizers that can help you with this process. You’ll love knowing that all of your spices are together in one location and that they are easily accessible at any time.
5. Stemware – Finally, gather up all of the cups, mugs, baby cups and stemware in the house. Throw away old cups that are falling apart or baby cups that are missing their tops. Put all of the cups together in one location on a top cabinet shelf. Try to keep them grouped by type so that all of the coffee cups are together and all of the glass cups are in one area.

When organized with a bit of thought and a few Lazy Susans, top kitchen cabinets can be practical and useful. You’ll never have to bend down to retrieve items from this space and you’ll have easy access to your baking materials, your stemware and more. It certainly takes organization and effort to keep your top cabinets organized, but it is worth the time to banish clutter and to create a more efficient, user-friendly kitchen space.