If you ask the typical homeowner “which room within your house is the most important”, you are sure to get some variety in answers. Some would say the bedroom, as you spend more time in your bedroom compared to any other room, although a majority of that time is asleep.

Some say the bathroom is most important because it needs to function properly each and every day. Others would tell you the living room because it is the hub of the daily activity within the house. Yet, a majority of people would undoubtedly tell you the kitchen is the most important room in the house.

Others would suggest the living room since it is the hub of the daily activity within the house. However, a majority of people would undoubtedly tell you the kitchen is the most important room in the house.

Even though the kitchen is the most important for a majority of people, we tend to leave our kitchens poorly organized. More times than not, you will have a refrigerator and a stove, along with some cabinets. Yet, these are not always laid out in an optimal solution. Moving them would cost a lot of money, which may not be in your budget.

In addition, you may not even own your living space; this means you cannot make the necessary changes even if you have the money. No matter how your kitchen is laid out, you can still make it more functional for a very inexpensive price. We have some great ideas for you to consider:

Utilize all of your Wall Space

When you maximize kitchen space, you should always look at the wall space first. You’ll typically find some empty wall space within the kitchen; either a full wall or space between the counter and cabinets. Let’s explore the plethora of ideas on what you can do with your wall:

Build floating shelves where you can put some decorative and functional items. You can also put up some of your bigger bowls or other big cooking pieces like a crockpot or rice cooker.

If you have smaller wall space, you can still put up a shelf that can hold certain things, even if they are smaller. This shelf can also have a rod underneath which can act as your Paper towel holder, so you can take that off the possible limited counter space you have.

Pots and Pans

One of the things that eats up space in a kitchen is pots and pans, along with your steak knives. They are big, unwieldy, and take up much more space than you imagine. Hang the pots and pans and knives from a mounted rack, where they are still accessible but are out of the way. By mounting them and clustering them closer together you’ll be able ot maximize kitchen space.

Lastly, put up some hooks in order to hold up pot holders or oven mitts. Not only do they serve as a good decoration, they are very functional for grabbing these items.

Using the wall space you have is a great way to make your kitchen much more functional and appealing.

Creating an Island

When you think of an island, you might be thinking of a 6’ or longer piece of furniture that could take up a lot of room. However, many different sizes of islands exist. Not only that, but you’ll find islands which have caster wheels on the bottom of them, where it makes it portable at times where you might need more open space within the kitchen.

Within an island, you can have one or multiple shelves and/or drawers. You can use the island in whatever function you need the most. Portable islands can be as narrow as 12” and can be as wide as 36” depending on the size of your kitchen. Even if you do not have room within your kitchen, you can have this island right outside of your kitchen. This allows you to have an extension of your kitchen in a non-intrusive way.

The island serves as a great way to hold extra bowls, wine bottles, wine glasses, paper towels, dish rags, paper plates or kitchen gadgets. Things you use the most need to be in your kitchen. If you have items that you use not very often, then have an area to store those where they will still stay organized. This is a great way to help you maximize kitchen space you need to utilize on a day to day basis. The portable kitchen island helps provide this solution.

Install a better Corner Cabinet

More than likely, if you have a 90-degree turn in your kitchen somewhere, then you will have a cabinet that is the corner. And although that cabinet can offer you a lot of room, a lot of the room is hard to reach. When you store things in that corner cabinet, the items in that area get lost, or they fall, and things can end up not ever being used. Instead of having space that is under-utilized in your kitchen, why don’t you install a new cabinet which can help you better use the corner room?

There are other accessories out in the market, including a Lazy Susan. With those options, you still have wasted space within your corners. However, when you use a corner cabinet, you can a more organized space. The remaining space can be used in a greater variety of ways. This will allow you to better organize your kitchen in a more functional way.

Sometimes you can’t afford to put in a corner cabinet, or you are not allowed to make changes. Then, you’ll have to become more creative on how to maximize kitchen space. Find other storage solutions for that corner area that fit the mold of the space you have.

Utilizing Your Cabinet and Pantry Space in Uncommon Ways

While you often think of your cabinets and pantry, explore other ways to use both of these features in new and exciting ways.

Create some under shelf drawers with dead space within your cabinet. You can have another storage solution for some other items you have, including silverware or cookbooks.

You can also look for different inserts that will fit in different cabinets. This allows you to use a cabinet in a new way. For example, you can have an insert where you can put all of your wooden spoons, spatulas and rolling pins. So, you don’t have to have a cumbersome container on your counter that just takes up valuable counter space.

Maximize Kitchen Space

Create some custom dividers within each drawer in order to give you more organization within a drawer. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a good spot for all of your notepads, batteries, and pens?

Use the inside of the doors of either your pantry or cabinets. You can put up a large chalkboard within your pantry doors, which can keep track of what you need on a daily or weekly basis. You can then utilize that wall space for something else in order to maximize your kitchen.

Explore creative solutions for you to maximize kitchen space.