I love this clever little video.
It reminds me to look beyond the obvious, think outside the kitchen cupboard, as it were…
We have limited space here in our new apartment-world and I was flummoxed as to how to fit all the mugs in the cupboard, a cupboard that was sorely needed for things like canned salmon and other essential things like, you know, FOOD.
I had just purchased eight of these matching mugs and a dozen dessert plates for an upcoming little afternoon party and it was looking like they’d have to live in a box under the bed, a very un-feng-shui choice…And then it occurred to me.
The drawer beneath the cutlery drawer was empty. I lined it with an extra tea towel, carefully placed the extra mugs upside down on the cloth, adding the small plates to the side, and howdy-doody, there we were – a thing of beauty.
And if you must know? I get a real kick out of opening that drawer full of mugs and plates. It just looks like there’s a little party waiting to happen. Very Martha of me…
I like the challenge of constraints. Finding a home for those little party plates was kind of like haiku for the kitchen.
Or perhaps like working with iambic pentameter. Now there’s a mouthful you don’t get to throw around too often…
Too funny. When I remodelled my new kitchen, all my plates, bowls, pots, pans, platters, etc. went into drawers of various heights made to measure my “stuff.” It’s so much easier to open a drawer and see it all at a glance rather than packing it into cupboards. No longer do I have to reach up or bend down to empty out a cupboard to get something from the back. Glad to see you’ve had an ahaa moment.
Martha, I gotta say, my epiphanies aren’t always that earth-shattering. It seems that there is nothing really new except what is new to us đŸ™‚
I love the idea of all the drawers being used like that…what a fabulous idea for an entire kitchen.