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  • I am living in an apartment with a kitchen that is driving me batty. Can you help me organize it better? The main problem is that my kitchen has almost no storage space. We don't have any kitchen cabinets. We have one horrible stand-alone cupboard from IKEA that takes up a lot of space but doesn't actually provide a lot of storage, and a silverware drawer. That's it. The pots live in a heap under the sink, and everything else lives on our (small) counter and on the kitchen table. My kitchen is small and narrow. I can't add kitchen cabinets (I'm renting and it's probably too expensive anyway), but I've got enough space to add one more piece of furniture. I'm thinking of just buying a set of shelves. Do you have a suggestion for which kind of shelves would be best? Or for a different piece of furniture that would be better, storage-space wise? If you live in a kitchen with open shelving, do you like it or do you wish you had doors to close? We don't have any fancy pots or dishes, so it's hard to tell from looking at blogs if in real-life open shelving just looks chaotic and messy. Also, do you have suggestions for how to take advantage of empty wall space without adding cupboards (I could probably add a single shelf though, like this one from http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/S79870350/#/S59870351)? And for optimizing counter-top space? And for organizing the blank space under the sink? Thanks for your help. I know there are a lot of questions about kitchens on AskMe already.

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    darling that is a massively huge kitchen if you're living in a city. you have a ton of veritcal space over that table, though my first suggestion would be to get rid of that table. get hooks and those bar/rail things that you can hang things from. put an expedit or two where the table is. get slidy storage things to go where it looks like you have your detergent and your trash/compost. and please, get a better/safer light fixture.

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Command Adhesive hooks will hang pots, spoons, pot holders, mugs, towels ... if you can't permanently install things and you want a cheap solution, command adhesive hooks will hang ALL KINDS of things. Very popular in apartment kitchens.

Eyebrows McGee

Can you take a photo of the kitchen, and of the open storage cupboard?

DarlingBri

I use http://www.ikea.com/de/de/search/?query=omar IKEA product in my tiny kitchen. I hang all sorts of things from the sides on hooks. IIRC there's even a wire drawer you can mount on the bottom of the shelves. (though I would advise some sort of liner on the shelves used to store smaller objects. The mesh is pretty open, and small things don't sit well on it.)

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Ness

I'd get http://ask.metafilter.com/245286/kitchen-with-no-storage-space#3561951. I got http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7374/9356056215_3cbcf40f77_z.jpg at Home Depot or Lowe's, I keep my plates, glasses, and pots in cabinets, but they could go on this. I don't have any drawers. I keep all towels and napkins in basket, my silverware in a organizer, and put all my vinegars/sauces on here instead of on the counter, tho I put some in the fridge even tho they don't need to be cold. I keep pantry stuff on one shelf and then try to keep big appliances on this to save on counter space. I sort of love your kitchen, pretty!

katinka-katinka

Another idea would be to go smaller with the table, or to get a kitchen island-type thing that has an eating area on it as well. You can use it for workspace and storage at the same time, and eat at it (especially if you only ever have two people eating at that table).

EmpressCallipygos

Thank you all SO much for your suggestions! You've given me lots of new ideas and things to think about!

colfax

We have one horrible stand-alone cupboard from IKEA that takes up a lot of space but doesn't actually provide a lot of storage Can you get rid of this and buy a new one to put in its place which DOES add a lot of storage? In my old flat, the kitchen had these Ikea http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00011428/ mounted above the kitchen sink. They were useful because of the gaps which allowed you to hang tea towels from them and also allowed you to put the pots on upside down when wet (they drip dried into the sink below). You can also get hooks to hang things off them.

Ziggy500

Metro shelves are a great use of space. Solve the problem of too widely spaced mesh by lining them with a piece of fome-cor cut to shelf size for smaller items. It looks clean, can be cleaned, and lasts a lot longer than you think. We use it in a retail environment all the time. There seems to be plenty of space over the hob for a wall hung pot rack. For what it's worth, that kitchen is about three times the size of mine (counting the tiles on the floor for measurement) so you have plenty to work with.

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