Hi, everyone.
It's Alejandra.
And in this video, I'm going to share with you everything that I have inside of my dining
room cabinet for everything related to entertaining.
So this is the cabinet that I have all of my entertaining supplies that I'm going to
show you everything.
But this is the exact piece of furniture that I had inside my home office in a lot of my
previous videos that a lot of people asked where it's from.
So I got it from my IKEA about two or three years ago and I love it because all the drawers,
they slide really nicely in the cabinets down here.
You just push them and they open and then to close them, you just push them again.
It's great.
I've had it for three years and it's just working wonderfully.
So everything that I have inside my dining room is related to entertaining.
I don't keep this stuff in the kitchen because it's all related to entertaining which I do
inside the dining room.
So let me show you what I have inside here.
So down here on the bottom shelf, I have all of my linens.
So like napkins, table cloths.
Like right here, I have two sets of napkins and I organized them by like type and what
set they belong to so like all the floral, all the solids are back there.
And then over here, I have all of my round table cloths for our round table in the dining
room.
And then over here, I have all of the rectangular table cloths for our kitchen table because
our kitchen table is rectangular.
And then on the bottom shelf here, I put adhesive shelf liner to kind of give it a popup color.
I felt like everything was so dark inside this cabinet and I kind of wanted to lighten
it up.
So putting a shelf liner did the trick.
And this took - adding shelf liner and trying to get it without bubbles takes so long to
do.
I think each shelf took maybe like 30 minutes or something to do.
So it's a lot of time because it's worth it because it just looks pretty and it just gives
it a popup color.
So up here, I have like a little bar kit, a cocktail set, I have more napkins for napkins.
And then here, I have drink koozies.
And all the containers like I try to use clear ones so I could immediately see what is inside
what right when I open the cabinet.
This, I just reuse from another area of the house.
And then at the very top of the drawer up here, I have napkin rings so two sets here
and then I have all of the plastic.
This is like picnic ware and just like plastic flatware and stuff.
And I sorted everything by category so all the knives are here, all of the forks are
here, and then all of the spoons are right here.
And I put them inside of a Ziploc bags so nothing gets dusty when they're away in storage
and they're just clean next time you use them.
All right.
So over here, I have a lot of sugar and I sorted them by category because we had so
many different varieties but I like to put them out whenever we have company over because
everybody likes a different type of sugar so there's regular sugar, there's Stevia,
there is Splenda, there is Equal.
Yes, so there's just like so much.
And the dividers I use here, they're just clear little dividers just like this.
They are made for like home office supplies or kitchen supplies so I just reuse them for
my office.
And I didn't label anything because I just open it and I could see what is what and plus
I feel like if I added labels, everything would have been covered because these are
kind of high, these are kind of high, and these are kind of high.
So yeah, that's about it.
And then if you feel like you're dividers or your organizers are sliding, what you can
do is put a piece of Museum Putty on the very bottom of the organizer and then stick it
to the bottom of the drawer.
The Museum Putty will hold it in place so when you open the drawer nothing is going
to slide back.
But I feel like nothing is sliding back so I didn't do that.
OK.
So on the other side of the cabinet, I have more entertaining supplies.
So in here, I have - down here, this container, there are plastic cups for again, for entertaining.
They're all wrapped in plastic so nothing gets dirty while they're in storage.
And then in the middle here, I have all the plastic - not plastic, paper goods like for
picnics and barbeques and stuff.
And again, everything is in a jumbo size Ziploc bag so it doesn't get dusty.
Then over here, I have so many napkins because I did a decoupage project like last year and
we used like rainbow colored napkins.
Now, I have so many sets of napkins.
But all the napkins are in Ziploc bag.
So again, nothing gets dirty or dusty.
And then I organize these ones vertically so you can just pull it out and look up and
you really see everything you have.
OK.
And then over here, I have a Lazy Susan with little airplane bottles.
So I like to make cocktails like I like trying new recipes for different cocktails but I
don't want to buy like a full bottle or something if the cocktail is not going to come out tasty
so I just buy small ones and then try making them.
And if I like them, I can get something bigger.
Over here, I have all of my straws.
So I'm a big straw person.
I love using straws for like juices, smoothies, cocktails.
So there is like these really thick straws, these are fun for smoothies or milkshakes.
And then there are smaller straws here and then coffee stirrers right there.
And then here is a silverware organizer.
So whenever I have a party, I'll put the knives here, the spoons here, the forks here, the
napkins here, so that's only for entertaining purposes.
Then paper cups, just for fun.
I don't know why.
And that is everything.
So I have shelf liner done here.
Again, that took a long time to do.
The shelf liner is from T.J.
Maxx.
It's by The Macbeth Collection and it comes in different colors.
And then up here in this drawer, I have all of the hot plates over here.
So these are all from IKEA.
There are three different sizes.
And what's cool about these hot plates is if you don't need to use them for hot plates,
you can mount them to the wall in the office or in the kitchen and use them as corkboard
squares to like hang an invitation, hang a card, hang a piece of paper and they are super
cheap at IKEA.
So those stay here.
Matches, so Ed and I love to collect matches every time we go to restaurants or travel
somewhere, we always bring them back so all of our matches are here for candles.
Pebbles for decorating or for vases, for flowers are right here.
I keep them in a baggy so they don't get dusty.
And then all of the tea lights for candles when you have party and stuff is over here.
So there are regular tea lights and then there are these battery-operated tea lights just
like that.
And these are actually - these are from Pier 1 but I've actually seen them at the Dollar
Store so you can get them cheap.
OK.
So that's everything inside of the buffet.
What you're going to do when you're organizing your dining room is keep everything that's
related to entertaining in the space instead of keeping those things in the kitchen.
Since you do all your entertaining in the dining room, you want to have everything nice
and accessible.
OK.
So that's everything I wanted to show you inside the dining room.
I hope this video was helpful.
And if you want more organizing tips and videos, you can visit my website at Alejandra.TV.
I'll see you soon.
Bye!
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