How To Organize Under The Kitchen Sink

friends i hope you all are doing great it's me nikki here to take you on the journey of refreshing under my kitchen sink and to share some tips with you on how to organize this tough space so let's get started okay friends so let's tackle that place that gets a little grungy under our kitchen sinks is that area that it can become cluttered fast it's not attractive because of all the piping and the garbage disposal and all that stuff but it is a way to make it function and beautiful at the same time now one thing that i need to do is re-line because it's it's getting a little yucky under there so i'm going to re-line i've showed you this in my haul video that i'll link below earlier this week and one thing that i do recommend for under the counter if you can is one of these racks here and many of you have gotten this over the years from my previous you started my previous under the cabinet video which i'll link that below so you can kind of see my setup before if anyone has um not seen that but it has that drawer function which is nice but i'm taking this one out and i'm reuse this in another part of the home because i found these in target and i'll link these in the description box below also but i loved it it's white it matches my kitchen it will brighten the area i'm refreshing under here for the spring it also had a variety of accessories that also complemented it and as you can see under the sink you have to kind of plan it out so when you organize i don't recommend just going buying bins and baskets and then coming home and saying okay i'm going to organize under the kitchen sink you want to take your measurements you want to look at kind of a diagram for under your sink and when i do that i find that i'm more successful when i'm organizing within a space so the first thing we got to do friends is we got to get it cleaned and realigned i'm going to use the rest of this caldera i'm trying to use this bottle up and so i'm going to use this to give it a nice wipe down under here and it's really going to make it smell fresh and yummy under here and so it can be even difficult cleaning with the piping and things like that but where there's a wheel friends there is a way and you can see i have a lot of low pipes so it's really hard because it just blocks a good part of real estate for storing under here and i understand that the purpose a lot of times is to hide off the piping but we still are going to maximize this space so basically i'm just going to line under here and cut it to fit and then this is going to one protect the bottom of my cabinet so sometimes i like to line especially the bottom cabinets in my kitchen i always like to line those and then that is also going to give me a nice fresh look in the space because it needed it and again under that kitchen cabinet for spring cleaning that is one of the places that you definitely want on your list and i tell you it feels so good when you have this space functioning and it's a space that we use every day because a lot of times this is where you're storing all of your products when you're cleaning your kitchen this is where you store your scrubbers your kitchen towels all kinds of things so i want to show you how to beautifully store it and how to make it function for you easy to get to your things and maximize that space so when i look under my kitchen cabinet i see a l shape i see a big open space on the right side and then i see a l in the front i see a line in the front so that makes a l shape for me so i know that that's the space i'm going to use all the others all the other space is taken up mostly by that kind of component with the pl of the plumbing and all of that so that is the the space that i have is the space that i'm focusing on so they had the bigger drawer here at target also and again i'll link all of these below that i got from target in the description box if you if you want to check them out but this right here has a larger drawer which i said this is perfect for like my kitchen towels and things like that so i knew i wanted that the wonderful thing that i did like about these were that they were stackable and so i could build on so before i went to the store i measured to make sure that i knew what type of system i needed as far as height and width and so the the smaller drawers were perfect because it would help me be able to build different categories so i knew the first drawer i thought would be good for towels the second drawer i knew could be good for my um dish liquid and then i said the top one could be great for like um you know like my dish gloss and things like that so i think this is going to work out perfectly i just got to turn it the right way so i can open my drawers but it gives me a little drawer system under here it maximizes the space and it really i think it's going to work great now you see i have that little slim space available to me that is valuable real estate so i needed to figure out how i wanted to use that and i really friends didn't have to figure it out i already knew because if you watch my previous video of under my cabinet sync from several years ago you kind of know the system that i use under here to maximize space and it's these containers here the only difference that is from my last video or the last time i shared it with you is the color of the top i think i had like a turquoise or teal color lid but this will help me maximize the space here i use these all over because they are stackable they are small but efficient and i love them so this was another rack that i found in that collection at target and i thought this would be perfect to give me that tiered not tiered but more of a stackable um option on the other side it's narrow which will allow me to maximize that space and also i could think about using it horizontally or vertically so that's the great thing it makes me so that over the years if i need to change out or change it around i could turn it horizontally it would still fit and i could turn it vertically and it could still fit and that's not the case with a lot of organizational items because of that pipe so not many things are going to fit where that pipe is so this i liked i thought that this could really work and it gives me two shelves there within my under the counter because i have a few goals here one is to maximize the space and two is to hide the piping that for me i don't want to open my cabinet and see all those piping that drives me crazy sometimes i just don't like that so i wanted to really just really make it beautiful but it has to function perfectly for me so for me friends when i'm organizing the space it's about measuring assessing getting all that first then it's about cleaning it out which you guys have seen both of those are checked off the list and now that i have my kind of tools i'm arranging them within the cabinet because i need to make sure that everything is looking like i planned it out and so i put everything in there empty so i can take a look at it before i fill it up and make sure that the arrangement works for me make sure that i feel like it's going to function simply and that i've executed my design the way my organizational design the way i want it to look and way the way i want it to function so once i take the look of it empty then i'm ready to start filling up and finishing off the project so i have all of my items laid out of what's going to go under the sink and this is the time to do that assessment and make sure that you refresh you know especially this spring you know get those grungy sponges out of there and refresh with new ones making sure that you have the tools that you realistically use under your sink and then think about the season add some fresh touches for the spring such as scents in your dish liquid your dishwashing liquid your dishwashing tabs your hand soaps and things like that so that's what i did now i got these pads here these cleaning pads from one of my subscribers from germany she sent these all the way from germany i think she has an etsy store where she sells them so i'm going to link them down below but she says these are great because they after they dry things they don't stink so i was like that that was all sold for that so i'm going to put these under my sink and i may cut them down so that i can really just use maximize them so i was excited about getting these another thing that is new that i added to my collection was these clean kitchen candles and i love these because it smells like lemon and you guys know how much in my kitchen i love the scent of lemon because in when you put lemon and use lemon with your kitchen it helps get rid of those food odors so you know i like the lemon essential oils you know if i can use linen um kind of cleaning products so these smell like such a yummy clean lemon so i am excited about these so i stocked up on these and i see i've seen them before but i never jumped on them but now i have and then i also picked up some new hand soap which this i looked online was pretty pricey online but i went to marshalls and found it and i think i paid all of three or four dollars for it so i felt like i got a great deal so i loaded up on the hand wash for the kitchen so i got new products that i felt were spring i love that they had the little bumble bee on it um i grabbed some of my new sponges that i had got from the grove and of course i have i keep my essential oils in here and i also keep a tea tree oil because this is great for cleaning your baking sheets and getting sometimes you have that grunge on it tea tree oil oil can really help with that so that's all of the products that i have in here plus my dishwashing tabs and kind of my dish thing you know things to clean the dishwasher and things like that so now that i've assessed and i have all of the things here it's time to pack it up so that i can put it under the sink now one good thing about me using these containers also for my things it really helps keep things clean because they're all contained in their little space it really helps them stay fresh and free from the debris and dust and all of that so i find that it's easier to maintain so not only do they stack and they're very good storage for under the sink they really help you with the cleaning portion of it keeping it maintained so basically i've already identified what each container is going to be for i'm putting my sponges in one i put my essential oils in one and another thing about it is it helps corral things so like these tabs here are what i use to clean the dishwasher they're not dishwasher tabs per say for cleaning your dishes but they're more for cleaning the machine so i have those in a smaller container because i don't have to label it i know the small container we know that those are not for washing dishes but for cleaning the dishwasher and then the larger container here we know that the bulky container is our everyday dishwashing tabs so that's you know important to know and so i replaced the little side basket here where i keep my um sponge that's where i kind of throw it when i'm done with it my sponge and my scrubber here and so what's great about this is that it just matches with everything else and so now it's about just loading everything in i've identified the space i made sure that it's stocked up these are my dishwashing liquids and you'll notice i love different scents and the packaging for a lot of things can be distracting and produce clutter and it just that for me i don't like so i find a way when i have things that i love to use but i don't love the packaging and i can't change it i find a way to position them so that they're not distractive to the whole overall plan so this drawer is perfect for my supply of dishwashing liquids i have what i want but when you look over there it's not distracting the packaging is not distracting and so then i'm going to just load in this side and you see how that just fills that in perfectly i can see what i have i can easily get to what i have and i don't have to see all of those that plumbing in the back and friends why it's always important for me to beautify my organization such as making sure i don't see the plumbing is because when i have a beautiful space whether it's in the open or closed off it inspires me to keep it that way so when i open this cabinet and i see everything has a place i see that it's really neat i am encouraged to keep it that way my family's encouraged to keep it that way rather if i open it it's all kind of bottles everywhere i'm gonna think let me just throw it anywhere it's just thrown anywhere so that's why it's important for me to make sure that every corner has a plan and his beauty beautifully executed so that it encourages us to keep it that way and we can clearly see here like right now i'm all about blocking out spaces there's no way to throw any kind of bottle in here because there is it's all taken up with the organization so when we have say some new essential oils you have to put it into place because there's nowhere else to put it so if you live in a family it's good to block out with your organization so that they are kind of forced to put things back in their place because there's no room to just throw it in there so the key thing that i'm trying to say here with that is when you're organizing the space think about the maintenance portion of it you know like when i look into the cabinet here i know that now we know where everything goes we're not going to just throw anything anywhere because we can't it it's just not you're not there's no room or no place to do it so you know of course when you're working out your plans think about how are you and your family going to maintain it is this going to be one that's easy to maintain or am i creating a system that it's going to look pretty today and it's going to look crazy tomorrow and you don't want that so i think that's why it's important before you just run out to target or anywhere and buy items is to really think out the organization for your space because if you look at my previous um under the cabinet video you will notice that my system has not really changed now aesthetically it looks different it looks fresh it refreshed and that's what i want but the system works for me so i'm not going to change my system because i have found a workable system under my kitchen sink but every couple years i will come in and i'll refresh it such as i did today maybe putting the new canisters and changing the color and changing the products to be fresher but those are inexpensive ways to really do that so i am excited that it is refreshed i hope you all have enjoyed i will see you at the next video and this is nikki saying goodbye you

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Length: 13min 39sec (819 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021