Kitchen Drawer Organizing

We all have these drawers in our kitchen that become crazy from time-to-time. The client wanted to organize these so-called ‘Dare Drawers’ (i.e. I dare you to try to find something). These types of kitchen drawers become so easily because there are very random things in them. Categories can be difficult, the sizes of items varies, and inevitably a box of toothpicks gets loose.

The biggest thing we focused on for both drawers was editing them down to items that are actually used - not just hopefully used sometime in the future.

Here is what we focused on:

Wrapping Drawer - this is for your cling wrap, plastic baggies, beeswax wraps, etc. This particular client likes to save rubber bands and bread clips for future use. We created bins to easily keep them in place (they had previously fallen out and gotten messy). We also decided that keeping the twist ties just wasn’t working - she never used them. We consolidated and better folded the beeswax wraps, and contained the loose random plastic bags in a Stasher bag.

Kitchen Item Drawer - I call these ‘tier two’ drawers. These are for the items you totally need to keep, but do not need to be readily accessible. We edited a ton in here, and found other places in the kitchen to store some items (backup mandoline blades go with the mandoline, etc.). This created a lot more space, and made consolidating into groups easier. From there the drawer bins came together nicely, and will contain all the random parts of this kitchen: fire/matches, pokey items (toothpicks, skewers, chop sticks), specialty tools, and household items (measuring tape, fruit fly traps, etc.).

Total Organizing Time - 2 hours

Product Budget - $25