Restoring Order: Kitchen Cabinets, Counters and Laundry Cabinet

This week my focus started with the kitchen counters - mainly removing all the things that we don't need to be out. My goal was to have only the coffee maker, spice rack, utensil basket and over-the-sink plant stand remaining. I had to find a new home for everything else - which was a HUGE challenge, since we are so limited on space. (or perhaps it's that we I have so much junk that I just can't seem to let go of!)

But, in order to clear the counter, I needed to rearrange the contents of the cabinets (and a drawer), so everything would fit! Here are the before and afters of the cabinets:

(I know these aren't very impressive, but we had our tupperware in two different places and now it's all in one, the blender was a pain to get in and out of the cabinet and now it's not, and now all of our rarely used small appliances are in a separate cabinet (not shown) instead of sitting on top of the cabinets.)





Then I was able to finish clearing the counter of random clutter:



I think the cleaning bug bit me pretty hard, because I also cleaned and organized the laundry cabinet:



For next week, I'm hoping we get the kitchen and living room completely painted, I want to organize under the kitchen sink and the space around the microwave needs an intervention!

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This week Rebecca is hosting the Restoring Order meme. Visit her to see everyone else's decluttering problems solved!