Kitchen Cupboard Organising – A Concise Guide
26 May 2023
Wringing a dishcloth into a sink and turning on the water, a shadowy figure watches crimson fluid spiral into the drain, still unable to fathom what they’ve done. They scan the kitchen with awe in their eyes.
Immaculate.
No one will ever know.
Surprise! The figure is you. And the fluid isn’t blood. It’s pinot noir. A clever kitchen and storage organisation process means that soaking it up and hiding the stain wasn’t even hard.
Since you adopted it, running your house has become a calm affair. No more cupboard organising. No searching “tidying tips,” nor digging through the utility room for sponges. No more finding evaporated milk tins in the larder and forcing yourself to endure the sniff test.
Since rewiring your mindset to practice “soft minimalism” – a realistic level of tidiness you bestowed upon your kitchen and your utility room cleaning cupboard – you’ve lived in luxury. Or, at least, that’s the reality you could live… All you need to do is take a few basic steps we’ve outlined in today’s article.
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Master Your Mindset
Guess the most efficient place to start when getting your house in order. The kitchen cupboards? The freezer? The “everything” drawer? Actually, it’s helpful to begin inside your own mind. After all, learning to control your thoughts and actions will help you maintain kitchen perfection long term.
After all, researchers claim the average person makes up to 35,000 decisions a day, and those who overexert themselves suffer “decision fatigue,” causing them make low-quality choices. Essentially, being frazzled makes you less likely to clean up and more likely to opt for microwave meals.
Streamline your clutter, though, and you’ll eradicate a lot of decision-fatiguing triggers from your cooking space, making it easier to maintain surfaces and prep nutritious food on a more regular basis.
There’s no need to sit in a clinical room, sticking to some arbitrary possession number limit, either. Simply practice soft minimalism (or “warm” minimalism). That means scaling back clutter with a light touch to add functionality to your space without sapping its warmth. You’ll quickly notice the benefits!
If you have trouble whittling down your kitchen possessions, consider this three-step process, inspired by Marie Kondo:
- Donate anything you don’t need or love
- Organise whatever is left by category
- Return items to designated places after each use
None of this should take more than a few hours, and it’ll help you maintain organisation long term!
Tame the Utility Room Cupboard
Planning is key to organisation. As Confucius once said, “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” And he was a guy who knew how to organise his territory.
So, what is the distant “trouble” you need to consider in your plan? It’s your utility room. Indeed, organise your utility cupboard and you de-fang cleaning, meaning it won’t hurt when you approach it.
Our new Utility and Laundry Room Cupboard Dividers are designed to make cleaning less painful. Easily installed in our cabinets, they split large spaces into more usable sections, including a place for ironing board storage and several smaller shelves for organising cleaning cupboard supplies.
Offered in two widths, as well as a plethora of cabinet colours and styles, they’re super useful for utility storage. They make locating cleaning supplies easier and create a hub for chores, helping you (or hired help) to become a one-person maintenance team without feeling any extra strain.
Excel at Pantry Organisation
Say you’ve streamlined your cooking gear and refined your utility closet to within a millimetre of its life. You’re organised. In that case, why is it still so hard to keep your food ingredients in order?
In short, entropy.
If you’re new to the term, scientists define it as the universe’s inclination to scramble any neglected area over time. Entropy is why laundry ends up everywhere and shelves accumulate dust. The only way to stop it affecting your kitchen is to establish a routine that endlessly re-orders your inventory.
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Produced to order in eight arrangements and countless styles, our Hathaway pantries can suit every homeowner’s needs and tastes. To maximise their full pantry organisation potential, simply deploy a four-prong method:
- Minimise superfluous food purchases
- Order ingredients by expiration date as they arrive (soonest at the front)
- Apply a FEFO approach (first expired first out)
- Re-organise supplies every week to maintain FEFO long term
This strategy works for pantry and larder organisation as well as for organising kitchen drawers. Used in a Sigma 3 kitchen, the system does the heavy lifting, freeing up your time to cook, socialise and live your best life.
Achieve Modern Minimalist Interior Design
At Sigma 3, we understand passionate cooks, thoughtful parents, productive professionals and luxury-seekers because we also live those lives. We get that your time is valuable and that an organised kitchen brings calm to the whirlwind that is life.
On that note, if you want help jumping straight to a kitchen that caters to your unique needs, nab a consultation at your nearest showroom. Or, if you just want more inspiration, become a Sigma 3 Insider. You’ll get free lifestyle guides and up-to-date design tips every month.
