Keeping the kitchen clean and all spruced up can be easy if you keep on top of it and follow these easy tips from Emma at highstylife.
Emma has written a wonderful guest post about how to keep your kitchen looking great as possible through the holiday season and beyond. Since we spend so much time in the kitchen, it’s good to keep it all spruced up.
You decorated your kitchen to your liking and enjoyed it for a while, but now it feels like you’re suffocating in it? There’s too much clutter and too many things you’ve bought, but never used? You want a spruced up kitchen, but don’t know where to start? Don’t despair. Here are five tips for arranging your kitchen to meet all your wishes and needs.

Originally Published On: December 7, 2017
Last Updated On: April 23, 2020
Find a good place for your dishes

This is a starting point for every organized and functional kitchen. Everything needs to have an adequate place, which can be achieved in many ways. For example, if you don’t have a pot rack, you may want your pots to fit into one another, and you can probably fit the pot covers into a shallow drawer. If not, you can buy or even make a smaller rack for them. You can put hangers on your kitchen walls and use them to hang cloths, kitchenware sets, cups, or even pans. Some kitchen tool sets come in their own containers, for more practical storage. Use floating shelves for cups, spices, or jars you use frequently. They are good for storage, and very decorative, too. Also, there are mini-jars with magnetic covers for your spices. You can put them on your fridge door, or put a magnetic bar or a board on your wall especially for them.
Use every inch of your cabinet space
Do you think your cabinets are full? Maybe you just need to reorganize them and use the space inside them more wisely and creatively. You can use the cabinet doors to store things by installing various paper holders or magazine files for storage. You can even put a smaller trash can on the cabinet door beneath your sink. We often waste space between cabinet shelves, which can be avoided by adding a shelf or two where possible, to store plates, cups, or other lower dishes and kitchenware.
Keep your kitchen clean and tidy

Once everything has its place, it’s important to keep it all just where it’s supposed to be. You cook your food in your kitchen, so it’s very important to keep it clean. Use natural products, such as vinegar, lemons, or baking soda for cleaning. They are less aggressive and therefore much healthier. Make sure your kitchen has enough airflow to avoid unwanted smells, dust, and mold. If your kitchen windows are too small or it’s too cold outside to open them often enough, be sure to use a superb air purifier for mold. These can help you keep your kitchen walls and cabinets clean, but are also very healthy since mold is often a trigger for allergies or other breathing problems.
Organize your pantry

This is where your creativity can really kick in. Add shelves, racks, or various organizers to your pantry. Empty it first, clean the shelves properly and then put everything back, one item at a time for better organization. Use decorative boxes, baskets, and jars to store food and be sure to label anything that’s out of its original box or bag. Organize items in your pantry by groups first, and then by size. Keep fresh food closer to the pantry door. That way you won’t allow it to spoil or rot. Once everything is in order, go through your pantry at least once in a week, so that you dispose of anything that’s not fresh anymore.
Get rid of the things you don’t need
Whether it’s the pantry, kitchen counters, or cabinets, there are always things we bought, but we don’t really use or need. Throw all those things out or give them away. Maybe somebody else will have use of them. We all buy new dishes from time to time, so don’t keep the old and damaged ones. Get rid of any cracked cups, plates or bowls, and definitely lose anything with even a hint of rust on it. Declutter your kitchen and you will enjoy spending your time there.
Being in a clean and organized kitchen will make you feel better and give you more will to cook and bake. Use these tips to turn your kitchen into a pleasant place for yourself and your family, and have fun doing it. We promise you’ll love the results.


Emma Lawson is a passionate writer, online article editor, and a health enthusiast. In her spare time, she likes to do research, and write articles to create awareness regarding healthy lifestyle. You can follow her on Twitter @EmmahLawson
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That kitchen is beautiful! This was a useful article as my husband and I just bought a new home together. Organizing and keeping it clean has been a chore with having 4 lods/
Congrats on the new home! I always find that cleaning as I go, and making sure the kitchen is tidy every night before bed helps us.
My kitchen gets so cluttered, especially since I’m cooking at least twice a day!! Thank you for these awesome tips to keep it looking great!
I hear ya, I’m always in the kitchen. Glad this can help!
YES! Great advice. First of all I REALLY need some new dishes because it seems like in the past month I have tossed a lot from being chipped. Second, I totally agree with you about reorganizing the space. We have one specific way that our pots and pans fit in the drawer.
We are noticing a lot of our dishes and utensils are getting to that point as well. It just means it’s all well-loved, right?!
Really great tips, especially the one about maximizing the shelf space. I have an older house, and we have odd size and shape cupboards, so my handy husband made me shelves that fit perfectly into all the weird shaped cupboards – and that has added at least 50% more usable space in our kitchen.
Oh, how awesome! Handy husbands are the best (I have one too)! My pantry is very odd-shaped so we just make the best of it.
Organization is definitely key when you are in the kitchen. I have so many different places that I keep things and could use a couple of these tips.
Organizing definitely makes a difference! I reorganize my kitchen at least once per year.
My kitchen could probably use a overhall. I like the tip about the cabinets and maybe they just need to be reorganized.
I find that reorganizing every now and then really helps you clean out everything and find better ways to use your space.
The hardest part of everything is to get rid of things that you don’t need. Because too many people can convince themselves they need something when they don’t really. It’s sad.
I try to go with the 6-month rule. If I haven’t used it in 6 months, I must not need it.
Such a great post! There are many useful advice. My kitchen is always a mess and it’s terrible whenever I enter it and cook meals. Maybe reorganizing and getting rid of some useless things are good choices for a tidy kitchen.
It definitely helps to get everything organized and clean as you go. I can’t operate in a messy kitchen.
These are all great tips! I need to be better about using every inch of my cabinet space.
There’s a lot of space if you use it properly, I’ve learned that even in small kitchens.
This is a struggle for me on a daily basis. Also my husband likes to cook a lot and he is so messy! I really have to work on getting rid of things we don’t need: we have a coffee maker that stopped working a few months ago, and now it is just sitting there because “we will fix it”! 😀 So many excuses!
My husband and I both try to clean as we go when cooking. And yes, anything that doesn’t work and can’t be fixed needs to go! It’s just taking up precious space in the kitchen.
Really great tips, especially the one about maximizing the shelf space. This is really helpful 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Vertical space is precious, so make sure it’s being utilized!
Great tips! What a beautiful kitchen super jealous it looks amazing 🙂
Thanks, but I only wish that was my kitchen too. I love my kitchen, but it doesn’t look like this. It’s a stock photo 😊
I clean up my kitchen the moment I’m done cooking. It’s really lovely to look at a tidy kitchen! There’s something so rewarding about it.
I couldn’t agree more. I have to have a clean kitchen.
I try to keep things in its place when I am using them. It makes clean up so much easier
That’s a great idea! Anything that makes the cleanup easier is a win in my book!