Kitchen Utensils & How to Organize them

love your posts – and these pictures are especially nice! where can i find the credits for them??

Haha – we don't have ANY drawers in our kitchen, so everything is in cups/holders on the windowsill.

My DH and I have quite a few utensils since we do a lot of cooking. Keeping them organized is a bit of work and while we have given away a lot of things we didn't use, there are still A LOT of things that we DO use and regularly. In fact, our kitchen collection is the one area where we actually have MORE stuff since becoming minimalists (which is fine since we now eat a lot better than we used to and spend less overall on food by eating at home much more).

Most of our utensils are in drawers. We have separate drawers for tableware, cooking utensils, and serving utensils — plus another drawer for supplies that we don't use super often but still find useful enough not to get rid of.

However, we also have a few on the counter. We have two very nice stainless steel pitchers that we sometimes use for tea, lemonade, orange juice, carrot juice, etc. — stuff we tend to make ourselves and then need to store. We rarely need both, though, so when they're not in use we leave one or both on the counter with our wooden/bamboo utensils in them. That way we also have easy access to some utensils like when we're doing stir-fries. And, while it's not stunningly attractive, I think they actually look pretty decent since they're not overloaded and the utensils in them are all fairly similar.

Our chopsticks and the two bamboo holders for glass straws are all on a shelf in a square glass flower vase. Now that actually looks pretty nice, I think. It's just one of the many things we have on display on two bookcases in the kitchen. Bookcases are VERY handy for extra storage space and they're very well "decorated" with things like fruit bowls, a fruit basket, a wok, bamboo steamers, etc.

We also have a knife block on the counter. Those magnetic knife holders creep me out.