A handy kitchen cart

Choosing to have a handy cart was one of  good solutions to maximize space in our little small kitchen. I believe that the kitchen cart  must be functional enough to help you when you are cooking a tasty dinner.

In the past my kitchen cart was full of grocery plastic bags and some clutters. It was a shame to have pictures that time. In fact, I wasn't expecting it to turned out beautifully like that .

So, I am so excited to share my kitchen cart I tackled a few weeks ago. I aimed to make it handy for me while cooking, and because I am dying for more little work space in the kitchen, the cart is sooo thankful to hold my cooking tools I use everyday rather than having them on my counter top.  

In addition to put my cooking tools I use on a daily basis, I loved to make it decorative and have a little of my touch. You may noticed I attached a tray to act as a shelf there and it so shiny and looks fabulous.

The cart is taking a place beside my kitchen lower cabinets and it is exactly facing the stove. So I decided to put my cute utensils' jars I shared last week on top. They help me to get things done as quickly as possible.

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I am dividing  my utensils into three categories (prepare, cook and serve). Each jar is specified to category. I also added my kitchen towels that I use in holding hot pots and trays or to dry some dishes.

I love to keep my kitchen hand towels in reach. So for me, this is the best place to keep them on hand. I  used a small tray holding them. I also have our tangy juice and a beautiful flower wooden jar to add a decoration to my kitchen cart.

Last but not least. I added extra kitchen towels In the bottom in case I am running out of the towels on the roll above.

What do you have in your kitchen cart? Do you have your daily pots and pans, mugs and bawls? I like to hear from you so please leave a comment below. See you in the up-coming posts.

Organizing kitchen utensils

Although I do not have that much of kitchen utensils, they were jam packed inside the kitchen drawer. It was hard to find one of them in there without getting a little hurt because of a gadget somewhere in the drawer.

They had unknown place with the other kitchen tools in the drawer until I found those cute holders for kitchen utensils in "Carrefour". They were pretty cheap and really useful for my everyday use utensils.

They act as a very convenient home for the kitchen utensils that I use everyday. What is also nice about these holders that they can be hanged next to the stove or working table.

First of all purging is a must for utensils specially when they are duplicated or some of them are out of use for a long time.

Categorizing them was the next step, I was thinking about ( bake , cook , serve ) way to organize my utensils. But since I am not baking too much and I use only one whisk for only cooking sauces, I was thinking about preparing, cooking and serving food as categories. So I got my label papers and printed out some elegant labels to decorate the cups and add more functionality to them. 

The prepare cup holds all the utensils I use in preparing food. Silicon brush , spatulas, strainer, vegetable peeler , lemon squeezer, meat cutting knife and also kitchen scissors. I suggest also any utensils used in preparing, cutting and cleaning food such as fish peeler or potato masher.  In cook cup there are whisks, draining spoon and tongs. Last but not least in serve cup there are cake and pizza serving spoons and ladles. I also have a place there for spaghetti serving spoon and ice cream spoon .

I chose my kitchen cart as a home for these cute holders and they are so handy there. They really took few minutes to finish.  Do you have any other solutions for your everyday use utensils ? Looking to see you in the up-coming posts and looking more for your organizing projects to share.

Readers Corner : A fridge full of colors.

My sister is living outside the country and she is one of my permanent readers. It doesn't seem to be real reader corner because she is my sister it means someone who I know. But I still wait for you to send me your photos and projects. She is inspired by my fridge tour post and she liked to do the same for her fridge so let's get the tour started.

Actually I liked her fridge so much. It is full of colors of veggies and fruits in colanders. I also like how she put juice and milks she uses in breakfast for her kids every morning before they go to school in baskets so that she can pull them easily.  

I hope you liked her fridge as well. I am waiting for your comments and feedback. what do you think about the fridge? See you next post.

How to organize fridge - My fridge tour

This is one of the most excited posts I would like to share since sometime and many of you have been waiting for it. I will take you in a tour in my fridge.

First of all I like to label EVERYTHING. I know people will make some fun of me but I don't care. I just like to label because it feels awesome and very neat for me. It is easy for me to organize like this. If I have a family guest s/he will feel comfortable to open the fridge and pick whatever to help me cooking or to eat something.

Let us start by the very first shelf in the fridge. My fridge is neither too small nor too big. It's normal size.

The first shelf has all things we have in breakfast or simple light dinner, i.e all things we get from grocery like cheeses, olives, pickles, halvah, pastrami and luncheon. I like always to put them into boxes in order to not leak anywhere or dry or have a bad smell in the fridge.

For the second and third shelves, I really like them because I used to put fruits and veggies in colanders and wash them , leave them to dry whenever I came from the hyper market. It feels AWESOME picking fruits to eat without any offer to wash them. Or to make a salad on the spot with no wash. Everything is dried and clean I really like that.

The last shelf is for juice and soda as well as for leftovers from dinner. I managed to put fridge coasters for all shelves but I felt I will not see the beauty of my fridge in fruits and veggies colors and stuff. So I put one coaster in the last shelf because I believe it will prevent soda bottles from moving around :) .

In the bottom drawer I have snacks in extra colanders and dry goods that I believe that they last longer in the fridge.Let's have a look inside

Some chocolate bars and my home-made lazy cake. I like to make lazy cakes for breakfast when my baby cries all day long I need something to give me power and at the same time ready to eat. On the right I have tamarind, wheat germs etc..Let's move to the door.

We have water in the fridge because we live in a hot weather country specially in summer,  so we need cold fresh water everyday.

the first shelf of the door I have medicine that need to be cold and eggs. I know the door is the warmest place in the fridge. But I don't have the problem of the door cooling issue specially with eggs just because I bought the fridge with already a place here for the egg, so I believe this is the right place for it. The second shelf has my baby ready-made and home-made food. Anyway I use this food during four days maximum, so I am not worry about the door cooling issue.

Next shelf has all condiments we use while cooking or eating. just a quick tip here if you have your Romano cheese dried for any reason just put it in the food processor and you can add it on salad, pasta, pizza and any other kind of food. They are tasty. There is a small transparent box in the right that I use for ketchup small bags that we collect when order deliveries but it is empty now.

In the last shelf I have dairy. We don't buy more than this amount weekly and some fresh cold water. I know these beautiful bottles are made for milk, but I like them because they look so nice, they are easy to pour water from it without getting the cover off, and because I didn't like the water bottles in the markets.


This was my fridge  tour I hope you liked it. If you like to share any organizing project I will be glad to share it here on my blog. I am waiting for your comments, feedback and responses. See you next post.

How to organize pots and pans

Hey. It's the middle night here trying to spend this time usefully and organize my pots and pans cabinet. Actually I used to hate to grab pots from it because it was messy and I had to carry heavy things to get what I want. But after I organize it, I keep opening it as I go :D . I did organize this cabinet while my baby is sleeping. Can you imagine how hardly to play with pots while your baby is sleeping a even a mile away? It was late at  night, so sorry for the little darkness.

This was my pots and pans cabinet before organization. It was messy and each time I try to get a pot I had to carry heavy pots before I reach to what I wanted with unknown lid. In addition, there are too many pots I rarely use and they take much space. As a result, I put my daily two or three pots and pans in a separated kitchen island to avoid using the cabinet. The pots I ALWAYS use EVERY SINGLE DAY. I will show you it in a separated post. So this cabinet has my rest of pots.

Add contact paper instead of plastic covers

As you see the cabinet was messy and I used to add any cover like ugly plastic cover. What I did is to clear everything out, wipe the cabinet and add CLEAR contact paper which I think is gorgeous because it is clear.It seems that you don't put anything under things, no folds created when you pull a pot, it is shiny and easy to clean. Also baskets and containers are sliding nicely over it. You can see the difference between the two shelves after wiping and adding the contact paper.

Put what you rarely use away

I figured out which pots that I rarely use like when I have too many guests or have party which of-course happens once or twice a year. No one has a party everyday. Anyway I got all of these pots I rarely use and put them inside each other and put all of them in one of the lower corner. This works often for the biggest pot of each pots set you have, because they are very large, or for the pots you only use in big meals, parties, barbecue, dish parties... etc .For the Tefal pot I added some tissue paper in order not to be scratched by anything I will put inside.

Organize according to usage

I organized the pots from what I use daily to what i use rarely. I tried to make them all to be easy to grab without carrying any heavy things. Also I put the baking trays vertically which maximized the space and easier to pull. You can see how shiny is the clear contact paper and easy to clean.

Try to maximize space or add double shelves

To maximize the space, I used this serving dish which I don't use any more for serving and put inside to give a height and also kind of adding space or an additional shelf inside the cabinet.

I know it didn't save much space but it worked. It may shows how it works better if I have a larger pot above it. But if you have one that is taller and bigger it will work amazingly. I may put the pots over it and grab something in-front of it so I can easily grab everything. If you can see when it is behind I can easily grab what's behind and what's in front.

Or you can use something similar to this. this is a part from a basket tower used usually for storing onions and potatoes. You can add pots under it and above it.

 But unfortunately it didn't work for me. It seems like it is very hard to reach the above basket. So I didn't use it. Any suggestions? 

 If you have something similar it will work for you perfectly without going to the store and buy an expensive double shelves right?

Finally, this is the result and honestly, I am seriously thinking about put back my daily pots to the cabinet as well as I planned to organize my food storage containers. I promise to keep you up to date with these ideas.

I hope these tips were helpful. I am waiting for your feedback, comments, questions and responses. Your responses will be the next talking center of-course.