Weekend Cleanup: Kitchen Cabinets 1

The day I finally got over my sickness I came downstairs to a pretty clean kitchen! Dev swept and mopped and all that jazz. I went to get a drink and a cup flew out at me. Que organization overload. I had purchased a couple cabinet things so I went to work. My kids have their own cupboard and had a whole shelf in yet another one. This is how it went. Cupboard 1- bottom shelf- Adult plates/bowls; middle shelf- mugs, random items that belong to others or old sets; then mixing bowls and some pitchers on the top. Cupboard 2- bottom shelf- kids cups and adult plastic cups; middle shelf- glass cups and water bottles; top shelf- pitchers and water bottles. Cupboard 3- bottom shelf- kids snacks; middle shelf- kids plates and bowls; top shelf- baby bowls, old baby cereal (gross right?), and other CRAP.
Here it is now.




Cupboard 1- bottom=same, middle= Mixing bowls, etc. top= platters and plasticware



Cupboard 2- bottom= Plastic cups, mugs, frequently used water bottles, middle= glass cups and less frequent water bottles, top= pitchers.



Cupboard 3- botom= same (but cleaned up), middle= right-plates/bowls/cups, left- water bottles/sippys, top= snack bowls/ less frequent cups/candy.

 I am SOO happy with the way this looks. Trust me it was a horrible mess before pitchers with bowls and cups in random places platters on the TOP of the cupboards. HORRIBLE. Now all cups are in the same spot and all of the kids stuff is in the same spot. NICE.

I didn't tackle other cupboards, but I thought I would take before pictures of those ones as usually this tornado come through unexpectedly!

Cereal/Breakfast/Junk food cupboard

Tupperware/? cupboard

Pot/Pans cupboard

Under the kitchen sink

Also I found a little stacker for my spices so I can see and reach them better.



Spice rack/stacker



Weekend Clean up: Pantry

This past weekend I was doing something mundane like grabbing some TP to restock the bathrooms and the look of my pantry gave me a headache. Who knew something so small and everyday would turn into such a huge project. I ended up pretty much gutting my pantry and re-organizing everything. I threw out so much food it makes me sick. The way it was before was everything was just shoved in there willy nilly so I never knew what I had. I have TEN packs of Chedder Broccoli noodles because of this. So this is the end result. It is downstairs in my family room on the play area side so the bottom 4 shelves hold my kids toys etc.

The 2 shelves where the cans are were chock full of crap. I didn't even have cans down here before. They were all in the lazy susan pictured below. 

We went to IKEA and got these cute little spice jars. I will for sure be needing more, but I think I'm off to a good start!

These were both sitting in their torn bags inside of plastic bags, getting EVERYWHERE.

Up in the cabinet, in the back you can see that I need more jars!

The other side. Not so sure how to make this side look cute!