Friday, November 9, 2012

Teeny tiny kitchen cabinets

So I have a small kitchen.  Very small.  For a family of 6.  At least that's the way I feel.  My counter space is virtually non existent and the cabinets are so small that I have to turn my dutch oven sideways to get it in and out of the cabinet.  We keep the crock pot and griddle on the floor in front of the microwave (that's convenient and looks GREAT!)
So, needless to say, with very little space, I have lots of storage problems.  BUT, I recently solved one of them.  On a trip to Ikea (love it!) I found these great little baskets to hang on the door.  I had been looking for something like them for quite a while but couldn't find one that Coupon Boy would agree to paying for.  These were inexpensive and JUST WHAT WE NEEDED!!!
This isn't an earth shattering revelation but I am glad I've got these.

They fit on my doors and actually still enabled me to shut the doors.  See, I had purchased several other options and they were all either too big for the door or, if they actually fit on the door they stuck out too far to get the door closed.

These don't stick out too far at all and fit many more lids in them.  We just had leftovers for dinner last night so all the other lids are in the dishwasher.

This one holds my smaller lids and can actually hold 2 rows of them.  Double the storage!!!

Yep!  That is the full width of my cabinets.  AND, I only have 4 of these on the bottom.