SMALL KITCHEN ORGANIZATION ON A BUDGET 2020 / RENTER FRIENDLY KITCHEN ORGANIZATION HACKS & IDEAS

[Music] did you ever stop and think why spend too much time just getting ready let me be honest i don't know a single thing that i haven't done to make you notice me hey guys welcome back in this video i'm showing you all the ways i've come up with so far to creatively store things in my small kitchen i just moved into this apartment about two months ago so these ideas are perfect for renters and also for those who are on a budget i focused mainly on organizing under my kitchen sink my spices my pantry and also how i store my pots and pans my favorite thing in this video is by far what i came up with for storing spices and also the transformation under my sink nothing beats an organized space in my opinion so stay tuned to come along with me through the organization process today hopefully this gives you some ideas for your own space and i will have all of the products that i use in this video linked in my description box for you as well the first thing that i'm doing here is just opening up all of the products that i had ordered i placed a couple of orders i shopped through amazon also target and bed bath and beyond but i just wanted to get everything put together before i got into organizing because it's very frustrating when you start an organization project and you don't have everything that you need already ready to go i don't want to stop to have to do this kind of thing later so i just got everything out of their packaging got it all set up and ready to go [Music] i need somebody the first area that i'm going to be working on is under my sink i knew this would take the longest so i wanted to knock this out first so just like any other organization project i'm starting off by taking everything out and then i'm just going to wipe it down and clean it out to clean under this sink i'm going to be using my e-cloths i have been totally obsessed with e-cloths ever since my subscribers recommended them to me i especially love the stainless steel e-cloths those have been amazing for cleaning my apartment appliances that i was having a major issue with streakiness so thank you so much to all of you who recommended them to me i'm going to leave a link in the description box below to where you can purchase e-cloths they are so worth every single penny and i promise you that you will love them [Music] i bought this specifically to go under my sink i love using these two-tier sliding basket organizers underneath my sink i just think it's perfect for things that you grab all the time so up top i put all of my dishcloths i don't have any sort of drawer that i can fit those in in my kitchen so they had to go under my sink and then on the bottom one i'm just putting my magic erasers the sponge daddies i have a couple of other sponge related things and some dawn dish soap as well as the brush that i used to clean out my sink so that they're easily accessible and then these baskets i already had under my sink i'm just placing them back under there i kind of take things apart over and over again as i'm organizing and i'm sure that a lot of us are like that i just want to make sure that i'm making the most of the space that i have so i will arrange it and rearrange it multiple times before i settle on something i ended up placing one of my cabinet shelf organizers under the sink as well i just think it's really important that you're using your vertical space as much as possible when you don't have a ton of space that way i can place things under it and i can place things on top of it and i'm just making so much more use of the vertical space that otherwise would be going to waste and you're the reason why [Applause] we're far away from the city lights so small under the night sky it's just a [Music] this cute little hack here i saw on pinterest and i thought it was just the coolest thing it is so inexpensive because all you need are some command strips as well as this little organizer here i believe that it's used for like binders or papers or something in an office all i know is that it is incredibly cheap i'm going to be using it to store things like aluminum foil or parchment paper wax paper plastic ziploc bags i have extremely limited drawer space in my kitchen and cabinet space so finding a place for all of those things has been really hard for me and i found myself placing them in multiple different drawers so i am freeing up so much room by putting this thing in here and storing all of that stuff in it this is one of my favorite things in this video i just think this is such a genius little hack and i hope that you guys like it as well you could never [Music] [Music] now i'm just giving you a quick peek of the finished product i'm so happy with the way that my under the sink organization turned out it feels a million times better when i have to go in there now and i'm not sifting through a bunch of crap trying to find what i need this was a really satisfying transformation for me because under the sink had been bothering me for quite some time literally since i moved in two months ago the next thing that i wanted to work on was this cabinet where i store all of the plates and bowls and carson's plates and bowls it was just really hard to organize them because a lot of his plates and bowls were weird sizes and they didn't fit on top of each other quite right also the cabinets in my kitchen are really high and i can't reach everything up top i'm actually standing on a ladder in this clip so i don't want to use the space up above in order to store some of carson's things because i don't want to pull up the ladder every single time i need to grab him something so i absolutely love these cabinet organizers that you can see here they just create more vertical space like i was saying when i was organizing under the sink and these ones that i have are from target and they are so cheap like dirt cheap and they work great [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you guys i was like giddy when i saw this online and i was just praying that it would fit in my cabinets correctly and it did i can't even tell you how excited i was i was looking for something like this and i couldn't find it anywhere but i ended up finding it on bed bath and beyond so it actually clips in under the shelf in your cabinet and it just again is utilizing your vertical space that you would otherwise be wasting this one in particular only holds about six spices and it folds up and folds down when you need to grab them and your drawers of your cabinet will close perfectly fine because it doesn't like jut out anywhere if you have an incredibly large spice collection this probably won't work for you and in that case i would probably recommend like spice liners for inside of your drawers i know there's some really good ones on amazon by utopia that i absolutely love but for me where i only have a few spices that i use on the regular this was perfectly fine and for the sake of making them all look pretty and uniform i'm putting them all into glass spice jars and i'm using an embossed label maker to put labels on all of them this label maker was so cheap and it was from target so like i said i'm gonna have everything linked in my description box below [Music] oh yeah don't you know we're getting old for this game so why you keep playing boy walking around like you're some kind of store [Music] cause you only bring me down [Music] don't you know what goes around [Music] don't you come crawling back cause you know we're through oh so that i can see the sky you're gonna be [Music] don't you know what goes around [Music] here is the finished spice rack i just think this is the coolest thing ever and maybe i'm ridiculous but i'm telling you guys i seriously was like so giddy over this thing i just think it's awesome [Music] the next area that i wanted to work on was where i was storing my pots and pans this was difficult and i've already kind of utilized the doors in this cabinet by placing a command hook on one of my doors and hanging my oven mitt from there that is one of the hacks that i would definitely recommend i really like that one but i needed to put some sort of mechanism in there to store my pots so that they were easy to grab the one that i purchased here that you see it's not the best it was really cheap and i was hoping it would work better than it does i can store like two of my pots on it none of the other ones will fit so i'm gonna try and find a better one that i can link for you guys but this does work okay for me it's just not exactly what i wanted but in order for me to use it i actually needed to move the shelf that was under this cabinet because there wasn't enough space for me to put that under [Music] tough you there you're all that you're gonna be loveless sooner or later [Music] so as you can see i kind of fiddled around with it for a little bit tried to find a good way to store things but it just wasn't exactly what i wanted it to be i'm sure there is something better out there but again i was sticking to really budget friendly for this video so this one just was not it but that's okay because more importantly i'm going to be showing you guys what i came up with for storing the lids to your pots and pans i found some really cool things to use for this they are by the brand joseph and joseph which is who made the spice rack organizer that i just used a couple of minutes ago i really like this brand i think they're so cool and none of their products require drilling or anything they just have 3m strips on the back of them so they stick right onto your doors so they're not going to damage the inside of your cabinets or anything which is why they're perfect for renters and these lid holders just stick right on the back of your doors you can put them on the inside of the cabinet as well wherever you have space but for me on the doors was perfect and now they're so easy to grab and they're not taking up space in the cabinet and creating clutter and making it difficult for me to get to the things that i need [Music] [Music] [Music] makes perfect you know this [Music] when i first moved into my apartment i didn't have this cabinet i actually bought this myself it was from target but i believe they also sell it on amazon i'm gonna have this linked for you just like everything else but this is a super cheap pantry cabinet by closetmaid it's like 60 or 70 bucks and what i did was i just removed the white handles that came with it and i replaced them with poles that look just like the ones that are in my kitchen so it honestly looks like it just belongs in here now and i have been loving it when i first moved in i was storing all of my food in my cabinets and it just made it really really difficult for me because i didn't have room for anything else so for a really long time i was living with so many boxes in my kitchen because i couldn't fit everything in my cabinets with all of the food plus we're going through basically the apocalypse so needing to have extra food on top of that it was just really hard aside from just having a few baskets in here i really hadn't organized the space so i wanted to work on that a little bit in this video i ended up moving a shelf so that the space would just make a little bit more sense i also used some of my cabinet organizers to create some more vertical space just like i did in other areas of my kitchen and this is in no way a pinterest perfect pantry organization but if you're in a budget don't worry about that stuff honestly it really doesn't matter if your pantry looks beautiful and perfect the whole point of organizing a space is just making it a little bit easier for you to see what you have so you're not wasting food and it is most definitely not about how beautiful your pantry is and what labels and containers you have and how well they match with each other and everything else none of that honestly matters just organize the space in the way that makes the most sense to you and choose not to care that it's not [Music] perfect [Music] looking back at the good times [Music] like everything's gone everything that we could have been [Music] got you [Music] we're about to reach the end of this video when i'm done organizing my pantry i really hope that you guys enjoyed it and you took a ton of useful information away from it on how you can organize your space i'm so happy that i did all of this it just provides me with so much mental clarity to have an organized space and i put it off for so long because honestly spending money on things like this is not my favorite thing to do but i set a budget for myself and i stuck to it and i'm just so happy that i ended up doing it i have so much more that i need to organize not just in my kitchen but all over my apartment so if you're new here don't forget to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss those videos and turn your notification bells on thank you so much for watching and i hope that you'll come back for my next [Music] one [Music] keep us awake [Music] baby

Channel: Catherine Elaine

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Id: 2_VDqSmVncI

Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020