Let's organize! - The Kitchen -

I love organizing. For me, the activity itself is more of an expression of oneself. In my own little world, I strongly believe that if you have an organized house, you have an organized life. If you have an organized office, you have an organized life. If you have an organized purse (even the purse!), you have an organized life. And who wouldn't want to have an organized life?? Let's start organizing!

When it comes to organizing my clutter at home, 3 stores usually come into my mind: Homesense, Ikea, and Dollarama. If I want something fancy, I'd go to Ikea or Homesense. If I need to buy a lot and don't want to break the bank, Dollarama will be the first choice. Didn't have that luxurious look, but tolerable. Now, I will be posting some of the fancy ways of organizing your kitchen.This is what I usually do, I would go online, look for ideas and find cheaper alternatives.

Available in StacksandStacks for $48.99

If you're like me who loves to use herbs on cooking, this is like a dream come true.

photo credits : Scrapbooking

Don't forget the recipes! This is a nice way of stacking your favorite recipes. Print them in a small card then stack them in a nice scrapbook style portfolio like this. You can also use a photo album to preserve and showcase your most valued recipes.

Available in Organize-it $24.97

This is one of my favorite kitchen organization "gadgets". I just remembered once I attended a bridal shower, after dinner time, the hostess offered coffee and tea and she pulled this box from her cupboard. I was in awe! It's just nice to see the tea bags neatly arranged in a bamboo box like this rather than placed in a jar or a carton box. So if you have different kinds of teas, show them off!

photo credits from the domestic diva herself Martha Stewart.

photo credits : Wasserstrom

Don't you want to have a cereal dispenser that looks like this? fancy!

Renovating my kitchen

I've been planning to renovate my kitchen ever since we moved in this house. When we bought the house, the kitchen was painted all white, even the kitchen cabinets are white. It has a white, old laminate countertop with black specks to, i guess, to have a stone effect on it. It looks very cottage and old. In other words, it's U-G-L-Y. So this year, I told my husband we have to start planning on renovating this kitchen. I started searching for "the look" that I want in my kitchen, do I want to have a contemporary kitchen? do I want to go victorian? or should I stay on a cottage style? but to be honest with you, just the thought of cottage makes me puke. Not that I don't like the cottage style kitchen, It's just that I'm afraid that in the end I will just be reproducing an exact replica of what I have now. I've shopped around to have at least an idea of how much everything would cost. In my mind, I know that I'm getting all the kitchen cabinets, fixtures and some appliances in Ikea. One reason is because of the reasonable price that they're offering. Home Depot, Rona L'entrepot and Rona Depot have various collections of cabinets to choose from but with the budget that I'm going for, theirs look more plastic and cheap. So I'm sticking with Ikea. Anyway, I am not an interior designer, but I've always been fascinated with house decorations, furnitures, spicing the room with colors and the likes. I've downloaded the Ikea Decorator, I've done my searches, I even registered myself in ikeafans, I guess I am all set.

I know in my heart that I want a modern contemporary kitchen. So to start with, I looked for a kitchen inspiration. As I was browsing, I saw this..




Perfect, I want to have that kitchen! Then I went to Ikea to find cabinet doorstyles that would look like this. I fell in love with Abstrakt white, it's their white ultra glossy cabinet doors.




Then for the bottom cabinets, I would want to have Nexus Brown Black doors.




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