To make the most of your custom home kitchen and enjoy the time you spend there, you want a well-designed, functional space. An organized kitchen that makes use of built-in kitchen organizers will save you time, it’s easier to clean, and you may find yourself cooking more than you have in the past.
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During custom home builds, or as we’re remodeling an existing home, we design kitchens first and foremost with ease and efficiency in mind. Part of what makes a kitchen more efficient is seamlessly incorporating several types of built-in kitchen organizers into the design.
Built-in kitchen organizers often give you more countertop space and a clean, contemporary look. They also complement other non-built-in kitchen organizers you may want to incorporate into your space to make it even more efficient.
Here are the top six kitchen organizers we love to integrate into our kitchen designs:
1) A cabinet pullout with utensil bins. This type of kitchen organizer is typically a tall, skinny drawer that’s used to store cooking and serving utensils. It’s an organized, clean-looking alternative to keeping your cooking utensils in bins or ceramic containers on the countertop or shoving them into a large drawer where they often get lost. One level of the cabinet pullout usually contains round holes that bins are slipped into so you can store your utensils upright.
We like to install this type of kitchen organizer close to the range or cooktop for easy reach and convenience.
2) An appliance lift. An appliance lift is a great option for heavy appliances you don’t use very often, like a heavy duty mixer, a large ice cream maker or a bread maker. It saves countertop space and it’s a good option for minimalistic kitchens. With an appliance lift, you store your mixer or bread maker inside a bottom cabinet on a shelf that’s connected to hinges.
When you’re ready to use the appliance, you pull the shelf with your appliance on top out and up, and the shelf locks in place as you use it. Then, you store it back inside your bottom cabinet when you’re done.
3) Paper towel holder. Instead of keeping your paper towels on a freestanding paper towel holder that takes up valuable counter space, we like to install built-in paper towel holder out of the way. Built in paper towel holders can be installed under the counter or in a drawer.
4) A sink front tip out tray. These trays directly in front of your kitchen sink are an excellent use of otherwise wasted space and they help to keep your sink area looking uncluttered. Sink front tip out trays are used in place of false drawer fronts under a sink, and they hide small items like your sponges, rags and scrub brushes.
5) An under-sink pull out bottom shelf. Sink plumbing and a disposal often don’t leave much storage space under the kitchen sink, but you can still effectively use the space you have by installing a pull out shelf on the bottom of the cabinet. This type of kitchen organizer makes it easier to access the soaps, cleaning products and dishwasher detergent tablets you store under your kitchen sink. The best type of shelf is either a pre-bought or a custom-made simple wire or wood shelf attached to metal tracks.
6) Lazy Susan. Maximizing storage space in the kitchen is always important, and that’s especially true when it comes to smaller spaces. Installing a Lazy Susan in corner cabinets is an excellent way to utilize blind corners and it gives you overall more storage for your pots, pans and other kitchen items. Design and prices of Lazy Susans vary, from inexpensive simple ones that rotate inside the cabinet, to ones with intricate finishes that you can pull outside of the cabinet to access your kitchen items.
As you’re designing your custom home kitchen or considering an upgrade or remodeling, keep in mind these top six kitchen organizers. More often than not, it’s easier to build them into your initial design rather than adding them later. Most are relatively inexpensive and they’ll make time spent in your kitchen much more enjoyable.
