Kitchen Organisation - taking ideas from my parents' kitchen into mine
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- Mid-Century Modern
- HDB (Resale)
- ~900 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living
YAY! We're exploring the insides of our kitchen this week!! We spent a really long time figuring out how we wanted our kitchen to work, and the placement of our "kitchen system". I think I personally took reference to how my parents' kitchen was like, how they kept and organised their things that best suited the workflow when cooking; and I took the things I liked + disliked and created OUR kitchen :) Our first drawer features a separate pull-out to hold our cutlery. Our cutlery organisers are a mix from both IKEA and Shopee. The one from IKEA is definitely sturdier, and this is where we keep our utensils. We have 3 sets of WMF cutlery, and they were all gifted by our dearest family and friends as housewarming gifts. Our organiser from shopee holds other knick knacks like saucers and chopstick holders. We also keep candles, lighters, placemats and a pair of scissors for easy access in this drawer too. My parents' previous kitchen design featured cabinets and more cabinets. And when they renovated it post-covid, the best addition they had to their kitchen was more storage solutions with DRAWERS!! Drawers were definitely more expensive but they make our lives so much easier to see and access everything that we need. Our IDs also provided us with BLUM hinges, and they have been absolutely wonderful in ensuring we have soft-closing drawers/cabinets. This side of the kitchen houses the clean things like utensils, crockery and cups, and containers - things we would need to plate our food. The other side of the kitchen houses things we would need to cook the food like our pots and pans, cooking utensils and our spice rack. Below our utensils drawer houses our cups. Half of our cups are from IKEA, and the other half are part of a set gifted by my parents. My parents had this entire set of white with green rimmed crockery that was from my grandparents', and it was never used. They are extremely sturdy and look cutely vintage and classy especially when we have guests. Some of our other random cups are gifts or freebies when we get some of our groceries. Our house is an amalgamation of crockery from our beloved family, really. In this drawer, we have our crockery - the bowls. Our blue bowls are from BYKURAHOME. We got them during a sale way before we had our house, and it was stored in my parents' place until our home was ready to house them. Do you spot the white crockery with green rims? That belongs to the same set as the cups from my parents!! All the other white bowls here are from Corelle, and it was from my grandmothers' house. And the brightest small bowls with funkiest patterns are actually door gifts from our wedding at Conrad Centennial Singapore in March this year. (Can't believe we've been married for 6 months now!!!) Continuing with our crockeries, we continue seeing the medium sized plates. We have SO MANY of them haha. But I'm not complaining. It is great especially when we host our big groups of family and friends. We also see more of our BYKURAHOME and Corelle set here. The rectangular Japanese plate is gifted by B's uncle & aunt as our housewarming gift. They travelled to Japan and brought this home for us. It comes as a set of 2. I LOVE how our crockery and things that we have in the kitchen have so much story to tell!! This is our last drawer of crockery, and we see the large white plates with green rims. We also have some long rectangular plates that my mum insisted I have in my home in case I decide to steam a long fish (but I have no steamer that will be able to hold this odd shape plate haha). We also have one more unused Modori cutting board that we keep in here. Ours was all bought during a sale and we are only using 3 of them at the moment. This is a chapalang (anyhow anything goes) drawer that houses a thermos pot (which we don't use very often but my mum insisted for me to take one since she has an extra one), stainless steel mixing bowls (these are great for marinating meat) and our other deep dish baking trays and ninja foodi accessories. On the other side of the kitchen, we kept our pots and pans directly below the hob so that we can easily reach for another if needed in the middle of cooking. It also made the most sense because this area can get hot and we did not want to store snacks or food items here. We intentionally placed our spice rack right beside our hob for easy access while cooking. We were able to customise and let our IDs know what height we wanted each section to be for shorter and taller condiments. This growing spice rack collection makes me very happy hehe These drawers were purposely designed to be deeper to store bigger utensils like a ladle, sieve and whisk. And we have them right beside the spice rack to keep our cooking utensils close to us while cooking. This tall tower of our ovens take reference from my parents' kitchen. My parents purposely did not have their built-in oven below the cooker hob for 2 reasons 1. It gets hot when you stand there and cook 2. If you're taking something out or putting something into the oven while someone is standing there cooking, you interfere with their cooking space. So we stole this idea from my parents, had our built-in oven and created a space for the microwave, and still had extra storage space. It is also really functional in terms of how everything has been placed - our coasters, kitchen mittens, baking paper, aluminium foil and baking trays are all kept in the cabinet and drawers above and below for easy access. We hope you've enjoyed exploring more of our kitchen and how we've organised everything. And we hope you get the chance to think before planning how you want your kitchen to be used before renovation. Or if you're already living in your home, you can consider some of our pointers to make it even better and more intuitive for you to use your space. Happy almost weekend everyone!! Catch you on our final post for this season real soon!! Byeee :)
- 26 September
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