Kitchen is an important part of home and a place where you spend a considerable amount of time if you cook yourself and even if you don’t cook yourself, it is essential that it is organized properly for even the maids to access everything easily and be able to manage it well.
When it comes to kitchen a lot depends upon the space available for your kitchen. If the space is small it is all the more important to organize your kitchen in a proper way. These days mostly modular kitchens are used to utilize the space to the maximum. Even in a modular kitchen you have to use your imagination that how to utilize the space to store your items. Here are a few important points that you must take into consideration while organizing your kitchen.
1. What you keep in the front counter: Front counter is generally kept for your gas stove, water purifier, and sink. You can keep your tea and sugar in a tray on the front counter along with the spice box.
2. What you keep in the back counter: You must have a back or side counter in the kitchen for the working space. Though it is not possible in a straight kitchen, it is very much possible in the L-shaped, parallel, or U-shaped kitchen. The back or side counter must be empty so that you may do your cutting, chopping, and kneading of the dough in the kitchen.
3. Keep space for big containers: In the Indian cooking we generally keep wheat flour and rice in larger quantities so we need space to store them. You can give a storage under the back or side counter for them. So you can store your big steel containers with rice and wheat flour in this space.
4. Put organizers in simple storage: You can put organizers to utilize the vertical space in the simple storage. You can place your utensils like pans, hot plate etc. or can put your mugs, saucers etc. in the vertical or high rise steel organizers. It is a very good way of using the limited space.
5. Keep baskets to organize different stuff: You can put a small basket to keep greater, mortar and pestle, and steel stands to keep the hot utensils. You can use basket to keep rolling pin and chakla i.e. your roti making essentials. This is a good way to organize your kitchen.
6. Use InnoTech Drawers to keep cutlery: You can use the top InnoTech drawer for placing your cutlery, spatulas, and tea strainers, folks and spoons, knives and scissors, and ladles etc.
7. Keep a drawer for plastic and steel containers: You need many containers in the kitchen to keep the leftover food in the fridge or also to keep the vegetables that are cut. So you need a storage for that also in your kitchen.
8. Keep a bottle pull out: You can keep a pull out for bottles like all kinds of oil and ghee. The bottom one can be used for keeping mixer jars.
9. Fit a swinging shelf: You can have a swinging shelf in the storage for all the casseroles and your vegetable choppers. In the bottom swinging shelf you can put mixer and big strainers.
10. Storage for plates: You can have one InnoTech drawer for placing all the steel or Melmoware plates big as well as the small ones. You can also keep glasses and bowels in it. The bottom drawer in it can be utilized for keeping glass lids, chopping boards, and trays.
11. Storage for utensils needed for everyday cooking: You can have a big shelf for utensils needed for everyday cooking like the pressure cooker, kadahis, big steel bowels, milk boiling vessels, and tea making pan.
12. Storage for vegetables: You can also have one storage drawer for keeping vegetables like potatoes, onion, and, garlic.
You can put perforated baskets in the storage drawers as they can easily be removed for cleaning.
13. Storage for Kitchen towels and other accessories: You can keep a storage for keeping kitchen towels and other accessories like paper napkins, foil, butter paper, zip lock bags, brown paper bags, straws etc.
14. Storage for spices: You can have storage for spices in the top cabinets.
If you have a modular kitchen you can keep storage for all the things and can designate space for everything that you need in your cooking process.
At Creativebuild we keep the needs for Indian cooking in mind and give storage space accordingly. Also we try to utilize the space in the most efficient way. The kitchens designed by Creativebuild are not only comfortable they also look clean, clutter free, and good as storage is planned for each and every small thing that is there in the kitchen.