Still rolling thru the kitchen

Before -

After -

Everything came from Bed Bath Beyond.
This was the most expensive drawer.
The plastic in the old knife drawer had massive cracks and was discolored.
  I had 20% off every item at BBB. All these drawers will now probably last the rest of my life. Many other drawers were free, so I felt free to get what I actually wanted.

I have no before picture. Just visualize wraps and boxes spilling out the top in a wadded up mess.

Yes, those are two US post office boxes. I looked at several stores and could not find plastic bins the correct size. I dug through my box stash and these worked perfectly. Free.

I have no before picture. Just imagine small plastic ware in a big mess. Lids, containers, so many small pieces. I sorted everything. If it was Tupperware brand, I kept it. But I moved it to my large Tupperware containers in the cupboard above our microwave. And they are sorted. One size and the corresponding lids in one large container. There are 3-4 large containers will small sets in them. So yes, if I want to use the big container, I have to dump the little ones in something else. I am okay with that. The big ones do not get used very often. I have several of each.

This is a giant, empty drawer. My second empty drawer. 

Yes, those are also ten empty shelves.

Drawer envy.

This is what started it.
I was looking for a pair of scissors at our neighbor's, the dog's house. Her kitchen drawers were lovely. I thought they were custom, built with the cupboards, because I have a couple drawers like that. But when I asked - Bed Bath and Beyond.





Both our girls were home for spring break. And on Saturday/yesterday, we all made a trip to BBB.

I was smart, the girls cut pieces of paper to fit exactly in the two drawers getting a makeover. So then we had a visible grid to figure sizing/placement. Middle was smart, she took the before pictures (below) so we had an idea of what was being stored in those drawers.





The second most used drawer in the house. second to the flatware drawer.
We have lived here over 15 years.
And I think it has been cleared out 2-4 times.
Each time it looks great and then falls to the wayside.

Drawer one BEFORE -

AFTER -

Drawer two BEFORE -

AFTER-

I debated for about 12 hours on what to do with this drawer. We got the tool bin of the garage and picked out these items. There are duplicates of things still in the tool bin. So if you open this drawer, you do not have to look in the garage. And if you get out the tool bin in the garage, you do not have to come in the house and open the drawer. Two full sets. And by the way, when we were done, you could not tell I had taken one thing out of the garage tool bin. It is still very full. 

If you are wondering where all the batteries went, they moved down one drawer and are now here -

This is a deeper drawer. If we had taken a before picture, it was full of paper. FULL. Of all the paper, a few things were saved - the instructions for the snowblower, the instructions for my bike, three cookbooks. Those all moved to new homes. The tape rolls from all over the house now live in this drawer. And the angel box, which was sitting empty in the kitchen from another clean out, is full of batteries. 

These next three drawers did not get new furnishings, instead they got sorted and scrubbed. Before pictures would have looked pretty much the same. These drawers were already pretty good. I think the key might be dividers. The more sections, the better. Maybe.

These drawer dividers are built ins. 

These drawer dividers are built ins. 

I have one drawer (below) left to sort. It is the knife drawer. BBB has several options made specifically for knives. There are also many different kinds of dividers. It is a big drawer. I taped the two pieces of paper from the other drawers together to make a template for this drawer. And it is in the car. So the next time I am near BBB, I am ready.

My potholder drawer by the stove was left as was. It is just a drawer full of potholders, no dividers.

Ditto with the kitchen towel drawer. Intact.

And the drawer that holds table knives, napkins and a Kleenex box is untouched also. If we moved any of those items, people would be forever confused. So those things stayed where they were.

One other drawer held rolls (plastic, aluminum, baking). And birthday candles that have rarely been used (we usually have pie for birthdays). Those items moved to a very deep, large drawer full of paper bags and zip-lock bags and that sort of thing. That drawer is a jumble and one simply digs for what they want. Adding 3-4 rolls made no impact on the jumble.


And this is my last drawer -

Gretchen has her empty shelf, and I have my empty drawer, at least for now.