Hi, everyone.
I'm Alejandra from Alejandra.TV.
And in this video, I'm going to show you how to set up a beverage station in your kitchen.
But before we begin, if you are looking to get organized, you can check out my free organizing
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So one of the biggest problems with the coffee and the tea in the kitchen is being able to
make it fast, being able to find what you're looking for and have it all in one spot as
opposed to running around the kitchen trying to grab different things from different places
and running into people and stuff.
So I'm going to show you how I've set up like a whole station inside my kitchen and what
I've done.
So the first thing I do like when I come down in the morning to grab coffee or tea is come
to this corner right here.
This is where my coffeemaker is, and it kind of just sits in the corner.
Up here is where I have all of my mugs and stuff.
And I'm going to show you in a second.
So the first thing I do with the coffeemaker is I always -- like when I make coffee, I
always hold this out from like away from the cabinets because the steam, we don't want
the steam to go up in the cabinets and yeah.
So what I do is because this is heavy is I put these magic sliders on the bottom of the
coffeemaker to make it really easy to slide.
Like when you add these things to something, they're adhesive, they just like slide like
butter.
You could do the same thing with like your KitchenAid Mixer because that's really heavy
or you could do it with any other appliance in the kitchen that you normally pull out
away from the cabinet.
So you can just like see how easy it slides.
So this stays right here.
And then inside this drawer is where I have everything for all of my tea coffee.
So I just come right here, I open this drawer and I see exactly what I'm looking for like
if I'm looking to drink tea, all the tea bags are right here, all the flavors are like in
my face.
I can see exactly what I'm looking for.
And then the coffee pods are right here.
I just like -- I keep -- there are 16 in here total and then I just refill it at the end
of the week or at the end of two weeks, however long it takes to get through them.
And so, what I do is I have all of the coffee pods inside of this basket right here.
This is like the backup bulk that just stays away from this drawer and I just refill it
as needed.
OK.
So I love these dividers right here.
These dividers are actually made for like a dresser drawer or a drawer in your closet
for socks and stuff.
But what I love about them is you can adjust them.
Like you can just move this one over to this little slot right here.
You just create the size that you need.
And they're perfect for tea bags like this just looks so beautiful.
Then I color-coded my tea bags and then I left -- like I didn't put one of these over
here for like the tea jars like this one and for the hot chocolate and the sugar and then
the cake cup which is back here.
And then I puttied down the drawer organizers so they don't slide when you open and close
the drawer.
So that looks nice.
And then I all the tea bags are facing the same way.
So this is kind of like -- this is a good tip, I feel.
So I used to have all my tea bags inside of this thing and there was nothing wrong with
this.
This still works.
I love this product.
The reason I switched to the drawer system is because I wanted to drink more tea or start
drinking more tea.
And so, I wanted to have it more accessible and be able to see the flavors a lot more.
So I switched to this system.
But when I was using this, I used to zigzag the tea bags so I would store one this way
and then one upside down like that and then I would just like alternate back and forth
to maximize space.
But in this case, all of them are all facing forward because it's easier to grab.
Just come in and just grab it just like that.
Just like that.
If they were zigzagged, it would be level and then it's hard to grab.
So that's why I do that.
OK.
So that's the tea bag drawer.
Let me show you where the mugs are.
OK.
So the mugs are just in this cabinet right here, right next to like the coffeemaker,
right next to the tea bags and stuff.
So, coffee mugs are right here.
The glasses are right here.
And I just use a double shelf organizer to kind of break up all the space right here
so you can see like these two shelves are really far apart from each other.
But if you put a double shelf, it just creates a second shelf right here that wouldn't normally
exist.
So, I just do that and they're all right there, right by the coffeemaker and the tea bags.
So is there something that you do in your kitchen to make -- making coffee and tea a
lot easier or just streamline the process so it's faster in the morning?
If so, let us know what you do in the comments.
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Bye.