Hey!
It’s Abby and today we are going to tackle one of those trouble spots when it comes to
organization.
Underneath the kitchen sink.
Now, when we moved into our house I basically just took my cleaning caddy and all the bins
that I had from our old house and threw them under here and kinda forgot about them.
I knew it wasn’t the best configuration so recently I decided to do an overhaul.
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The first thing I did when I decided to tackle the cabinet under the kitchen sink was take
everything out so I had a totally blank slate to work with.
From there, I was able to get rid of anything that we were no longer using and see exactly
what I had left so I could make a plan for getting it neat and organized.
While I had everything out of the cabinet, I wiped it down and put in some pretty contact
paper.
Not only does this help to make it look nicer, but it also is easier to keep the actual cabinet
clean and keep it from getting damaged or sticky or anything like that.
When I had my remaining items organized and ready to go, it was time to refill the space.
Let’s take a look at how it turned out.
If you saw my pantry video a couple weeks ago, you know I use a lot of clear containers
with aqua labels.
So to maintain consistency throughout the kitchen, I decided to go for a similar look
in here as well.
I found these acrylic drawers on Amazon.
They were originally meant for cosmetics but they are the perfect size to hold sponges
and cloths and things like that.
I will link to them in the description below.
I cut all the labels out of adhesive vinyl using my Silhouette machine and it makes it
really easy to figure out what goes where.
I transferred my dish soap into this little oil container that was about $2 and it got
a matching label too and it makes it really easy to just grab it and dispense it whenever
we need it.
In the middle here, I used some stackable containers I had to hold some of our under
the sink essentials.
These ones were a little pricey but I recently found a more inexpensive version at Walmart
in the Better Homes & Gardens brand so I will link both below in the description.
So, dish washer tabs are a must.
We have two little containers of them and when we need them we can just pop the top
and lift it off and grab one.
This is really easy especially with wet hands when you’re doing the dishes to get this
off and just grab what you need and then put it back.
So, the other containers hold things like gloves for really messy jobs and then this
one has some random items that we need to keep close to the sink like an Allen wrench
for the garbage disposal and the sink stopper and that sort of thing.
So I use the final tall container from my set to hold SOS pads.
It’s back there out of the way cause we don’t use those very often.
This white container is actually a utensil holder meant to hold forks and knives and
spoons but it’s worked perfectly as a cleaning caddy to hold my cleaning supplies.
I really pared down my items and just kept a few multipurpose cleaners here and that’s
really all we need to use.
I did make my own glass cleaner.
I used just a regular spray bottle and labeled it.
We use this not only to clean windows but also for our quartz countertops and it works
really well.
So that is our organized cabinet.
In the past, I’ve always felt like I had this space packed with stuff and it really
made it hard to organize it and keep it neat and clean so we could always find what we needed.
When I took it down to the essentials that I actually need and use, I even had some extra
space in the cabinet and I will never complain about that!
Of course, everybody’s needs and setup will be different but this is working for us right
now so I’m going to stick with it for awhile.
Let me know in the comments if you have any tips or tricks for keeping underneath the
kitchen sink organized.
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Remember, the fastest way to get organized is to start today so pick a space even it’s
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having the organized home that you want!