Storage is an essential element of a well-functioning kitchen, but it can be tricky to get it just right. Knowing how to create spaces that feel calm and organized is a skill these designers all share. Find out how they’ve brought order to these rooms with ideas small and large.
1. Create a Family Hub
The kitchen is often the heart of a busy family home, and all kinds of unrelated items can drift onto surfaces and the floor.
Designer Mia Spencer of House by Mia had the perfect solution for this family kitchen redesign: a slim storage unit topped with a cork noticeboard. “The corkboard is for paintings, the family calendar, messages from school and stuff so they’re available to them but tucked away. You can’t see it from the dining table and don’t have to have bits on the fridge,” Spencer says.
Below this, she designed a custom cabinet with a basket for each member of the family to store their items. The idea is that things like swimming goggles, keys and pens can go into the baskets instead of cluttering the countertops, she says.
This storage unit, only 10 inches deep, also made great use of otherwise unused space.
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