Kitchen Tour Update

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I almost feel bad about this title, like I’m teasing you into some big post full of pictures of my kitchen. I do have two pictures I’ve never shown before, so yeah, maybe I should have made the title even more exciting.

I’ve shared my kitchen several times on the blog. Let’s review –

• Kitchen Tour {2012 Edition}
• About Kitchen Cabinets, where I show lots of cabinets
• Kitchen Tour {2015 Edition}
• Pantry Tour {2015 Edition}

When I thought about photographing my kitchen this week, I just didn’t have it in me. I’ve been fighting the weather for natural lighting opportunities this January and honestly, even if the weather were perfect, it really is a lot of work.

I know, I know, I’m supposed to be the one to figure out how to do it all and then report back my findings and teach others how to do it all … wait, wait, I think we all are confused about what blog this is. This is Mary ORGANIZES, and my self-proclaimed job is to tell you that to have a good life you can’t do it all or be it all to everyone. You have to figure out what to cut out and what to include, even if you disappoint people you really like. And wow, just like that, this post got really heavy for a blog post labeled “Kitchen Tour Update {2016}”. Moving on …

As I was reviewing all my kitchen posts, I realized there were two places I’ve never shown that might help give someone an organizing idea.

The first place is the cabinet above my ovens where I keep all the big flat stuff stored vertically between these little wire racks I found at a home improvement store. The racks are actually screwed into the bottom of the cabinet, so they hold pretty well even with heavy cookie sheets and pizza pans pressing against them.

And here is the second place. This is the drawer underneath my double oven. Maybe I’ve been subconsciously hiding this drawer from you because I hoard tablecloths. As I hinted before Christmas, I have a thing for tablecloths. We use one every Sunday and many nights of the week during the Spring and Fall when we eat on the back patio.

I try to use the one-in-one-out rule to keep myself in check, but over time it has really boiled down to the “if it can still fit in the drawer” rule. And that is an actual method of mine that I teach clients for a multitude of their favorite things. I’ve given the tablecloths a natural limit or boundary, and as long as I don’t let them go past that, it is okay.

And since this drawer is next to the garbage can, we keep the garbage bags in here too, which is actually another organizing principle: proximity. Wow, one drawer and so many lessons!

There you go, my two picture kitchen update. Hopefully you enjoyed a little break from your decluttering.

From my home to yours,
Mary