5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

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

5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

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

5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

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

5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

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

5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up

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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28 thoughts on “5 Tips to Keep Your Kitchen All Spruced Up”

  1. 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/

  2. jenny at dapperhouse

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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!

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