- My kitchen usually it's just a disaster.
Usually looks like a tornado just hit it.
(upbeat music)
Hi I'm Edith from Sweedith Bakes.
Sweedith Bakes is a home based bakery,
and I specialize in Puerto Rican pastries and food.
I really wanted something authentic
here in L.A. and the only way for me to bring it here
was to actually make it myself.
I've always loved to bake,
as a child make like these three tier cakes
and make my family eat them.
(laughing)
So they were my little guinea pigs.
To be honest, working from home has been amazing.
As I've grown I've noticed that I've been needing
a lot more help in organizing my station,
organizing my kitchen.
- Hi I'm Andee Del Orbe,
you guys might know me as Gadiel Del Orbe's sister.
I recently moved in with Edith.
Well after moving in I saw her hard work,
I saw how difficult it was for her
to move around the kitchen.
Running your own business at home is not easy,
and I feel like she does need help to run a different system
and I know that Janelle is an expert at that.
I tried when I first move in here,
and I'm like I'm not Janelle, why am I doin' this?
(laughing)
Now I brought in the professional.
- Hi, I'm Janelle from STRAIGHTEN UP,
and I'm here with Sandee and Sophia,
and I'm here to STRAIGHTEN UP Edith's kitchen.
I'm so happy to be back with Pero Like.
This is my fourth video, I did a kitchen makeover
for Claudia, and closet makeovers for Curly and Maya,
so if you haven't seen them make sure to check 'em out.
I'm a professional organizer.
I actually got into it by doing it
for friends and family as a favor.
I've always been really obsessed with organization.
I just followed where life led me,
and I decided to turn it into a business.
And two years later, here I am.
So organizing kitchen's is really specific.
There's kind of a formula for where things
should be within a kitchen.
And especially for Edith, because she runs a business,
and so her personal stuff needs to be separated
from her business stuff.
She needs to be able to find the pans that she needs,
and so that it's quick, it's easy for her
to get her orders out and she's not wasting any time.
So my goal for this kitchen is to really separate
everything into categories
so that it's very easy to find everything.
I really want all of the baking pans to be together,
appliances to be together.
'Can't wait to get started.
Hi. - Hi.
- I'm so excited to be here, thank you for having me.
- Nice to meet you.
- Are you excited?
- Yes I am.
- Are you nervous?
- Not even, not one bit.
- Okay good.
So kitchen's are really fun,
they're usually not that emotional for people.
Because it's a kitchen, so you're just checking
what food you want where and it's not really emotional
like getting rid of a shirt
that you've had for 20 years and are so sad to get rid of.
But for you it's maybe potentially
going to be a little emotional, 'cause it's your business.
You've put your whole life into it,
I can relate you know.
- It's my my baby.
- Yes exactly, it's your baby.
I'm really excited for you,
I'm excited to see how it turns out,
and I'm excited to eat whatever you bake.
- Of course.
(laughing)
So let's get to it.
We gotta open all these boxes.
- Yes, let's do it.
- [Claudia] Put down some dogs.
- I don't wanna put down the dogs.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so I started with the easy thing
which is the pans.
Got that all set up.
But now what I really wanna do is divide the food.
So I want you to build the can organizer,
we're gonna try to keep all of the food in the kitchen
and make this a little bit more industrial.
So the plastic wraps, the Reynolds Wrap.
'Cause I know this is like your work table,
so I want you to be able to grab
one of these plastic bins that has all of your cute
little thingys, bring it to the table
and then be able to bring it back super easily.
The one thing I do wanna move in the kitchen,
is the appliances because that's where you're using them.
So I don't want you to have to carry your mixer.
So step one, you're gonna build that.
- Got it.
- And then step two is we need to figure out what's what.
We're gonna divide, oil, sauces, cans,
baked goods like dry goods, that kinda stuff.
So we just need to separate them very clearly
so that I can figure out
what the best placement is in there.
And I'm gonna do the lazy Susan's right now.
'Cause I love a good lazy Susan.
(laughing)
Okay, break.
- My kitchen usually looks, it's just a disaster.
Usually looks like a tornado just hit it.
I'm always scrambling trying to look
where items are at in my kitchen.
They're never in the place where I last left it.
It just takes a lot of time away from
what I actually need to get done
and it delays me at times.
(upbeat music)
- We just realized that aesthetic wise,
that we like the idea of just having this shelf,
and I think we can eliminate this shelf
by better utilizing this space.
And also just better utilizing this spot,
because you weren't really
using this to it's full potential.
This is gonna live on here.
(upbeat music)
Disclaimer I'm putting gloves on
'cause I'm allergic to nuts and we're about to touch nuts,
so don't be offended that I'm putting gloves on.
Just for my safety.
(laughing)
I try not to breathe.
Okay, so what we're gonna do is we have the cute
little jars like this,
we're using glass and bamboo right now.
Just cutting down on some plastic, as much as we can.
I kind of already separated what's gonna go into these.
So we have those spices and everything.
So I'd love for us to start decanting those.
(upbeat music)
Doin' good, we're gettin' there.
Do you feel it?
- [Andee] Yes.
- There's still some missing variables
that we need to make sure we account for.
Let's take all of this off,
and then we can clean the shelf.
Potatoes, looks like we've got quite a bit of potatoes.
Very important to clean shelves when you're organizing.
(spraying cleaner)
Because while you have a really clean surface,
you should deep clean it 'cause there's so many crevasses
that you can't get to once you put everything on.
- [Andee] I tell you that all the time.
- Take advantage of it.
(upbeat music)
We're in your new kitchen, how do you feel?
- I feel amazing, it looks amazing, it looks great.
- [Janelle] Are you tired?
- [Edith] I am very tired.
(laughing)
- It's a lot of work isn't it?
- Yes, it was.
- Well I think we should talk through
kind of what we did, because we were able
to eliminate an entire shelf which is incredible.
(laughing)
'Cause we didn't even eliminate a lot of stuff,
but we were able to just rethink
how we're using the space better,
and therefore create a bunch of room.
And now you have more counter space
on your beautiful new baker's rack.
And now you have your mixer out,
that was really important because you use this constantly.
We've got the spices down here, easy for you to grab.
Just pull them out, they're divided by type,
you separated them and what you use them for.
All of your baking stuff is right here,
so it's super easy for you to grab what you need,
put it right here into the mixing bowl.
You've got all of your utensils,
which previously these were in those stacking bins
which is just--
- [Edith] Madness.
- Yeah, too difficult to have to pull them out
and find what you need.
All of your measuring stuff is right here, ready to go.
Baking, icing, scissors,
anything you could possibly need.
This is all super practical for you, right?
- [Edith] Yes, definitely]
- These are divided by grains, are all in here.
And then these are all extra baking stuff.
Using the side for all this stuff,
and we've got your aprons hanging on a Command Hook.
- So one of my favorites things that we did today
was eliminating that shelf.
It added a lot of space, I was able to eliminate
things I didn't even need.
- Sometimes people feel like if they don't have the space
that they need that they need to add more storage.
So I'll go into people's homes and they've added
like all sorts of drawers and shelving,
and all this stuff not realizing
that what really needs to be done is you need to rethink
the way you're storing things.
So that you're using the space efficiently,
so using vertical space, putting things in a way
that makes the most sense so that you, you know,
have things in bins, things are contained,
therefore they're not spread out all over.
The other thing is that people tend to
not realize how much of the stuff they don't need.
You look at it, you get overwhelmed,
you can't decide what you need.
- That's what happened today.
- Yeah, so taking everything out,
putting it all over the floor.
Which make sure you clean it first which is what we did,
it's very important to lay everything out
and see a blank space, so that when you're adding
things to the clean shelving you're able to
really only add things you desperately need,
that you love, that are purposeful to you.
And we really re utilized these cabinets in here,
and used the upper cabinets for things
that you don't necessarily need all the time
like pitchers, and vases, and stuff like that.
So you still have it, so we were really able
to use this space differently,
because previously the microwave
was on the shelving over there.
So now we were able to use this spot
because there's actually no shelving down here.
So with the freezer pushed up against here
we're not actually losing any storage.
This we cleared off,
and now you can use this as your drying rack.
We put some nails right here for the cutting boards,
and you have this space to do some work.
You have so much more room.
- Yes.
Actually what I learned about myself
is that I tend to buy a lot of things that I think I need,
that I don't know I actually have at home.
We found a lot of ingredients that I have in bulks now,
and we've actually stored it as back up now.
It's gonna save me a lot of money, a lot of time,
which is amazing, thank you.
- And now we have this cute little calendar up,
so when you're running outta something,
so easy for you to add it right onto that list.
- Just put it on the list.
- Exactly.
- Oh my god, yes that's perfect.
- Throw it on your list, master list,
if you use something and you run out,
or really you should do it prior to running out
so when you have only 25% of something left,
add it to the list and then you know
that you can buy it and refill it.
Okay, so a walkthrough of what we've got here,
we really utilized this shelf a lot more,
and the first thing we did was the pans.
Because you have so many, and so many different kinds.
And you need to be able to access them easily,
so we did these pan organizers.
And now all of them are lined up this way,
the oversized ones are right here on a shelf,
so that they're really easy to get to,
nothing is really stacked too high.
You really want to avoid stacking things too high
so that you have to lift things.
We did the can organizer here,
so what is in the back is what is in front,
so if you release this one
you're gonna have another coconut milk.
And down here, we did all of your plastic wraps,
which you use for when you're packaging up orders
and all that good stuff.
So you can come here, grab what you need,
and again these are not stacked,
there's a shelf riser here so we could really use
this vertical space which is super important
and really key to organizing,
is using all of the space you have,
using the vertical space.
And then down here we have some of the larger mixing bowls,
some of the larger appliances.
So up here we've got the back stock,
which is things that you already have down here.
So when you run out of Ziploc bags,
you can go up to your back stock moment,
check to see if they're there before you go to the store.
These are some of the bulk items,
some of the rice and stuff.
We put the ones that you use for baking in there,
these were the extras.
And then behind that were some more extras,
things that didn't necessarily fit in here.
I think that's the full rundown.
(laughing)
How does this make you feel?
(exhales)
- So much better.
- I know you really were excited about this moment.
- I was, I was 'cause they were just piling up,
and they were getting heavy.
Sometimes I would need to get something from the bottom
and I would bug Andee a lot.
Andee, come help me.
(laughing)
- And the other thing is it's super important
whenever you're organizing something
to leave room to grow.
So, you know right now it looks like it's full
but it's actually not.
A lot of these nest and can stack together.
I separated them as much as possible.
But, like some of these muffin tins are the same size,
so they could actually go in the same slot.
You continue to grow it's very important
to continue to evaluate what you have,
'cause sometimes when you're starting a business,
or moving into a new home, you've just gotten married.
You put all these things on your registry,
all these things you think you need,
and two years go by and you don't use half of it.
There's really no need to keep that stuff,
donate it, give it to a friend who might need it.
So that what you have is what you actually need.
Thank you so much for letting me into your home,
into your kitchen, into your business.
It means to much to me that you trust me
to just come and make a big mess and then clean it all up.
I'm really really excited to get some goodies from you.
- Of course, definitely.
- Very excited.
- Thank you so much, do you have to leave?
(laughing)
- I'll move in, I'll move in. - Can you stay?
Thank you so much, I truly do appreciate everything.
So it's been approximately three weeks
since we did the kitchen makeover.
For the most part, everything still remains in it's place.
It's helped me keep my kitchen here
at Sweedith Bakes organized.
I'm saving now time in every order,
and also I'm saving a ton of money.
So this makeover has helped Sweedith Bake a ton.
So, thank you.
(mischevious music)
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