How Improve Your Kitchen's Functionality

Everyone wants their Greenville/Spartanburg kitchen to be an attractive and comfortable place. They also want it to work well without having to give up its attractiveness or its place as the welcoming center of the home. With this in mind, here are five ways to improve the functionality of your kitchen. 

1. Add more storage

Contractors like those at Kitchen Tune-up know that a kitchen can never have too much storage space. Ironically, the kitchen is probably the one room in the home that has a large amount of dead space, or areas that serve no purpose. This is because of the way most kitchens are laid out. 

You can overcome this by using that dead space for storage. This includes corner cabinets, “garages” with roll-down doors, corner cabinets with pull-out shelves, lazy susans, and pull-out spice and condiment racks that you can install between the fridge and the wall or even between the stove and a floor cabinet. 

2. Add drawer organizers

When you’ve installed a drawer organizer in one of your cabinet drawers, you won’t remember how you lived without it. You don’t even have to buy an expensive, high-end drawer organizer made of teak with places for jars of spices or its own knife block. Simply measure your drawer and buy colorful plastic trays at a dollar store to fit, and start storing forks, knives, spoons, and other needful things.

3. Set up a recycling/trash center

A regular garbage can takes up space that can be used for other kinds of storage, and more and more decorators recommend dedicating a deep drawer for your trash. Fill the drawer with bins for regular trash and recyclables. If you have a compost pile outside, dedicate a bin for this as well. Make sure to either label the bins at the top or cover them with different colored lids.

4. Use the walls and even the ceiling

A lot of dead spaces in the kitchen are areas of the walls. Add bars, hooks, or shelves for extra storage. These can also enhance the look of your kitchen. A pot rack hanging from a ceiling and filled with gleaming copper pots, pans, and utensils increases the kitchen’s functionality and is also a thing of beauty in itself. 

5. Add under cabinet lighting

A kitchen always benefits from lots of natural light and ceiling lights are a must when the sun goes down. Installing undercabinet lighting over the stove, sink, and counter is also a great help when you are cooking and preparing food. Lighting also adds to the safety factor. Installing undercabinet lights is easier than ever with the development of LED strips. They can even be installed inside your cabinets.

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