Kitchen Storage Does Not Require Major Renovations, You Can Double The Space By Cleverly Using Gaps And Walls

After living there for a long time, I discovered that whether the kitchen is useful or not really does not depend on how much money was spent on the original decoration.

Those things that are definitely used every day, such as spatulas, seasoning bottles, and plastic wrap, are piled up on the countertop, which makes people feel bored. To make a meal, you must first make room, and your mood is suddenly taken away by half.

During the Chinese New Year, I went to see the kitchens of several neighbors. They neither demolished the walls nor replaced the cabinets. They only relied on a few poles and boards to make the originally messy corners flexible.

Faced with storage problems, these methods can be completed in half a day on the weekend without the need for a lot of effort. Just follow them and you will achieve the corresponding results.

01 Hand-rubbing shelves for refrigerator gaps

My neighbor's eldest sister, there is a narrow gap of more than ten centimeters wide between the cabinet and the refrigerator in her house. It used to be stuffed with plastic bags and waste paper boxes. It not only looks messy, but also accumulates dust.

Instead of asking anyone to dismantle the cabinet, she measured the dimensions herself, went to the building materials market, cut a piece of multi-layered solid wood, put a silent anti-collision pad on the back, pushed it into the gap, and it fit tightly.

Now, this narrow cabinet is specially used to store fruits, potatoes and onions, as well as regular snacks. Compared with the original stacking on the countertop, the access line is shortened by half.

If the gap in your home is relatively deep, you can add a universal wheel to the bottom of the board to make it smoother to pull out.

02 The outside of the flue becomes an invisible seasoning wall

Another neighbor in the same apartment type did something even more extreme.

There is a protruding penis in the middle of her kitchen flue , originally ugly and taking up space.

During the renovation, about ten centimeters of extra space was used to enclose the flue in the thin high cabinet. When the cabinet door is closed, the flue will be completely invisible.

Opening the cabinet door reveals an orderly wall of condiments. Soy sauce, oyster sauce, and cooking wine are all arranged in a vertical manner. You can tell how much is left at a glance.

Compared with the exposed flue pipe in my house, the appearance and practicality are both crushed.

I would like to inform you that when making a cabinet like this, you must determine the location of the adjustable shelves in advance so that bottles and cans of various heights can be placed flexibly.

03 Double-layer inclined wall cabinet without head collision

If the flue cannot be modified, or there is excess space above the wall cabinets, then a set of wall cabinets with slopes can be connected below the traditional wall cabinets.

The advantage of the bevel design is that you don’t bump your head when holding things, and your line of sight is not suppressed.

The neighbor made this set of cabinets sliding door , which saves more space than ordinary opening doors.

Layered in between are low-gluten flour for baking, cocoa powder, various molds and plastic wrap, each with its own grid.

First, the tiny tools that were originally piled on the countertop were then placed on the walls and cabinets, and then the kitchen looked much more spacious.

04 Wall cabinet lower panel + hook combination

For small kitchens with no extra walls, you can use the bottom of the wall cabinets.

The person who lived next door installed a nail-free storage board at the bottom of the wall cabinet. On it were placed frequently used oil and vinegar bottles and spice jars. Below the board, a row of S-shaped hooks were hung. Rags for wiping, clips for holding things in place, and cutting boards for cutting side dishes were all hung on those hooks.

She specially selected a sliding shelf, and then added a large bottle of olive oil. She only needed to move the shelf and did not need to drill holes again.

At this moment, nothing was placed on the kitchen countertop in her home, and not even a rag could be found. It looked as fresh as a sample room.

05 Telescopic rod activates window sill sink

The telescopic pole is really a storage artifact and costs only a dozen yuan.

The house next to the neighbor installed a telescopic pole on the walls on both sides of the window sill, and used hooks to hang scissors, spoons and spatulas in a straight line. This allowed for good ventilation and did not take up space.

There are also two horizontal bars on the inside of the cabinet door under the cabinet, placed at a slight inclination. Four small baskets are hung on them, each containing scouring pads, steel wool balls, dishwashing blocks and spare garbage bags.

The corner that used to hold only two bottles of dish soap now has an entire row of storage spaces.

Pay attention when choosing a telescopic pole Stainless steel material Yes, the kitchen is humid and will not rust easily.

06 Invisible warehouse behind the base cabinet door

The blank space on the back of the base cabinet door panel is something that many people ignore after decorating it.

The neighbor next door used nail-free glue hooks and transparent storage boxes with adhesive backing to hide the plastic wrap, plastic bags, baking paper, and dishwashing cubes, all behind the door panel.

You can see things clearly when you open the door, but you can't see anything when you close the door.

This method is especially suitable for small apartments. Those scattered small boxes that should be placed on the countertop are all missing, thus improving the visual neatness to a new level.

Be careful not to hang anything too heavy. Lightweight items such as plastic wrap are most suitable.

07 The divider allows the pot to stand upright

The more pots I buy, the more pots I buy. It’s easy to scratch the coating when stacked, and they take up space when laid flat.

The neighbor spent less than ten yuan to solve this problem. He nailed a wooden strip to the bottom drawer of the cabinet, and screwed several S-shaped hooks at equal intervals on the wooden strip. Pots of all sizes were stuck vertically between the hooks, and the pot lids also had their own places for hanging.

When you grab one of the pots, the other pots stand still. There is no need to move the whole pile of pots out to search for them as before.

This method also applies to cutting boards and baking sheets.

08 Cream White Appliance High Cabinet

If space allows at home, make a whole side Floor-to-ceiling tall cabinets is the ultimate solution.

The neighbor's house built a cream-white cabinet over two meters high against one wall, and installed a door panel with a handleless rebounder. Once the door panel is closed, the kitchen transforms into a minimalist style showroom in an instant.

Open the cabinet door, the juicer is where it should be, the coffee machine is also where it should be, the wall breaker is also in the right place, as is the air fryer, even the dry goods cans are neatly stacked inside, and the grain buckets are also placed in them.

When friends came to take photos at her home, they thought her home had a high-end customization worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Reserve in advance Switched socket , small electrical appliances can be powered off without pulling out the plug.

Good storage can never be bought by spending money.

With a telescopic rod, a nail-free board, and a few hooks, as long as they are placed in the right places, a messy corner can be transformed into an efficient storage area.

Give it a try on the weekend and pick one or two areas that give you the most headaches and start changing them.

When the kitchen becomes easier to handle and store, the mood of cooking will really be different.