Sorting my Small Space: The Kitchen (After)

What it looked like Before, And here's what the kitchen looks like now! 

I've put those shelves to good use. The fridge is holding all the small appliances that have no place on the limited counter space.

I'm reserving the top of the cabinets for things that are rarely used (the cookie jar box, used when moving only. The tea items drying rack, used only after tea parties. A painting - it's not going anywhere. And Earl's grandfather's commemorative Apollo Shuttle glasses are the only things up there now.)

 

 The counter space is very limited real estate.  So it has the things we use most often, and then the stand mixer - which doesn't really fit anywhere else. (Also, any guesses where I'm sitting when I take the below pic?)

If you guessed on my green "kitchen" couch, you're right. It's come in so handy I cannot even tell you how much I want a couch in any kitchen from now on.

There is a piece of furniture that's been ridiculously versatile. Two apartments ago, it was a shelf above the refrigerator. Last apartment, it was the end table to the chaise portion of the sofa. This apartment, it resides next to the green couch and, with the help of two very sturdy magazine caddies from IKEA, it holds my recipe books/print outs.

 I approached putting together this shelving system with a color coding plan in mind, and that's how it ended up. I'm really pleased with it, and it happens to be super handy

And that's what the kitchen looks like right now.... We'll see if that changes. :D



And in case you were wondering, the painting hanging above the shelves is an in progress version of an album cover from Earl's favorite band. He's done it all himself :)