33 Kitchen Cabinet Organization Ideas

Streamline your kitchen cabinets to serve your needs with these top organization and storage ideas.

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How to Organize Your Kitchen Cabinets Like a Pro

Kitchen cabinets can go from feeling manageable to overwhelming in the blink of an eye without the proper organization solutions. And sometimes it can be challenging to determine where to begin when overhauling your kitchen cabinets and drawers. The good news? We come baring storage solutions that will transform your kitchen cabinets. Between your cramped corner cabinet where pot lids go to die, mismatched spice jars and the junk drawer that manages to eat your partner’s car keys weekly — we’re tackling all the chaos. Click ahead to read the best 33 kitchen cabinet organization ideas to bring order into your cook space.

First up? Assigned seating. Or, in this case, assigned shelving. Make this sophisticated kitchen hutch your muse for organizing open-air or glass-door cabinets. Arrange your glassware and ceramic serveware on alternating shelves and stack items for a tidy, store-like appeal. This technique yields results that appear put together and elegant while also giving off a casual, approachable quality ideal for daily use.

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Create Cabinet Cliques

One failproof way to keep your kitchen cabinets well-organized is by sorting related items on one shelf. Take cues from this setup and create designated sections within shelves using storage container sets. Airtight canisters, metal baskets or glass spice jars lend a polished look and are much easier to navigate than the items’ original packaging.

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Sharp Solutions

Whether you’re aiming for clutter-free counters to maximize food prep space or hope to keep sharpened blades far, far away from your curious kiddos, a neat-and-tidy knife drawer is the storage solution you need in your life. Swap your knife block for an in-drawer organizer near your go-to chopping spot or cooktop. Bonus points if your organizer includes extra compartments for corralling extra tools like the beauty pictured here.

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Transparency is Key

Fancy yourself as a professional baker? Treat your cabinets to bakery-level organization and ease using transparent canisters and baskets. Using acrylic or glass organizers is our go-to because the transparent material minimizes visual clutter and makes it easy to locate and take stock of the items on hand. The upper cabinet shelves feature cohesive clear containers and color-coordinated mixing bowls to create a makeshift baking station in this contemporary kitchen.

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Create a Kids' Cutlery Caddy

Pint-sized pink forks bring a certain out-of-place, chaotic energy to your regular silverware drawer. Our solution? Create an out-of-sight cutlery caddy for your kids’ colorful, shrunken utensils. Attach a plastic drawer organizer to the inside of a lower cabinet to give your littles easy access to their tools.

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Organize Table Linens + Accessories

Make this Pinterest-worthy set-up your motivation to purge your junk drawer once and for all. Transform your newly cleansed drawer into easy-access linen and table accessory storage with a few wood dividers. Use the compartments to store seasonal fabric napkins, tapered candles, napkin rings and more.

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Tidy Up With Trays

Under-the-sink kitchen cabinets are the black hole of many homes. Avoid losing another sponge to the abyss by using serving trays to create a sense of order. A large acrylic tray provides sleek parking for paper towel rolls under this kitchen sink while coordinating acrylic containers provide orderly sponge and dishtowel storage to the left. Achieve similar results under your kitchen sink using clear trays for the same items, bottled cleaning supplies or dishwashing essentials.

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File Your Baking Pans + Cookie Sheets

Skip the frustration of sifting through eight to 10 baking pans to locate the one you need. Install vertical organizers to one of your lower kitchen cabinets and use the slots as a baking pan filing system. Organize your cookie sheets and cake pans by size and then slide them into the adjustable rack for a neat, navigable cabinet that caters to your needs.

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Or, Slip Them Into Your Pull-Out Drawer

If you need baking pan storage but don’t have the cabinet space to spare, do not despair! Take over a drawer instead. This pull-out drawer features vertical dividers that hold the pans upright, allowing easy access and visibility. Bonus: This technique works well with gliding cabinet drawers or inside a stationary tall lower cabinet.

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Install a Mess-Free Cutting Board Drawer

This cutting board drawer is the perfect example of working smarter, not harder. Install a pull-out cutting board drawer with an integrated food opening directly above your pull-out trashcan cabinet to create a mess-free prep space for every meal.

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Group Your Utensils

Floating utensils are a recipe for a messy kitchen drawer. Wrangle your cooking tools and streamline your space with simple wood or plastic drawer organizers. Take cues from this tidy drawer and group your tools and utensils with like items to make finding what you need a breeze.

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Fire Up Your Label Maker

Labels are our secret weapon for turning a chaotic cabinet into a streamlined storage space. Not only do labels look lovely, but when every item in your kitchen has a designated landing spot at the end of the day, it makes cleaning up a breeze. Snag pre-made labels for your kitchen cabinets online or make custom options with a label maker to suit your ever-evolving organizing needs.

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Invest in Cohesive Storage Containers

The key to achieving kitchen cabinets that are so polished and put together your friends will think you splurged on a professional organizer is simple: strategic storage container shopping. Take cues from this farmhouse kitchen cabinet and invest in canisters, tubs and baskets in finishes that are a visual extension of your cabinets or kitchen design. The glass jar canisters feature airy wood lids that mirror the white oak cabinet interior, yielding a cohesive, calm storage space. A pair of grid wire baskets group varied goods on the shelves and complement the stainless-steel appliances beyond the cabinet doors.

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Put Pull Out Pan Storage Beside Your Stove

Put your perilous days of stacking clunky pans in your cupboard in the past. Install a pull-out pan organizer in a lower kitchen cabinet (bonus points if it’s directly beside your stove!), and you’ll be cooking in minutes. A gliding organizer is a must for novice cooks and home chefs alike because it provides easy access to the pans’ handles and avoids jeopardizing the surface of your non-stick pans.

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Maximize Your Storage Space With Under-Cabinet Shelves

When organizing kitchen cabinets, we live by one rule: Don’t let an inch go to waste. Follow our lead and maximize your upper cabinets by installing under-cabinet plate shelving. The inexpensive addition allows you to store bulkier items, like serving trays or bread bowls, alongside everyday dinner plates within the same shelf space.

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Streamline Your Cleaning Supplies

Not sure what to do with the awkward space between your refrigerator and the wall? Take notes from blogger Jessica D’Itri Marés and install a utility closet. Invest in a gliding organizer with shelves for all your cleaning gear for a quick-and-easy installation or take a stab at something a bit craftier and make this custom closet your muse. Build a stationary or sliding wood utility cabinet and paint it to match your existing kitchen cabinets for a cohesive, professional look. Empty your cleaning supplies from their colorful (read: loud and overwhelming) containers into a collection of sleek glass spray bottles with custom labels.

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Create a Stemware Drawer

Keep your stemware secure between soirees with a handy glass drawer a la this minty-fresh kitchen. We’re obsessed with this setup because it eliminates the risk of shattering fragile flutes when retrieving them from cabinets overhead. Plus, it makes putting them away post-cleaning a breeze.

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Invest in Pull-Out Drawers

Designing your kitchen from scratch? Consider installing gliding shelves inspired by this spacious cabinet. Unlike traditional stationary shelving, these custom shelves function as storage containers in their own right, with a drawer silhouette and bumpers along the front to accommodate tall pots and bulky appliances.

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Streamline Your Seasonings With Glass Jars

Raise your hand if you’ve run to the grocery store to grab a bag of brown sugar only to realize later that you already had one tucked out of sight in the back of your cabinet. Yep, we’ve all been there, but the good news? You can avoid spending unnecessary time and money from this point forward by organizing all your dry ingredients in airtight glass jars. Transparent glass or acrylic containers are our go-to's because they allow you to keep tabs on your goods and track what needs replacing on grocery day.

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Keep Plates in Place With Peg Board Drawer Storage

Create custom plate storage in a spare cabinet drawer with the help of a pegboard organizer. A pegboard allows you to create tidy plate stacks that won’t move (and subsequently chip) when you open and close your drawer. Pegboards are ultra-adaptable, enabling you to move and adjust custom layouts to suit varied plate dimensions. Best part? These pegged organizers are inexpensive to purchase and easy to DIY on the cheap.

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Turn a Serving Tray Into a Coffee Station

Transform one of the kitchen cabinets into a tidy coffee station you’ll look forward to frequenting throughout the day. To create your cabinet cafe, use a chic serving tray as the base for your beloved cream and sugar bowls. Layer in a glossy acrylic or mother-of-pearl box to store your coffee beans and espresso pods out of sight and add artful canisters for stir sticks and straws. Line shelves overhead with your tea and coffee mug collection to streamline the station and make brewing your cup of joe quick and easy in the morning.

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Cover Your Blind Spots

Never let your valuable lower cabinet storage space go to waste again with a pull-out blind corner shelf insert. Blind corner shelves provide unmatched storage for pots, pans and casserole dishes as they slide out of your lower cabinet so you can grab what you need in a flash.

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Install Toe-Kick Drawers

Don’t be afraid to think outside the box when creating kitchen storage solutions. Toe-kick drawers are a space-savvy option for storing your cutting boards, serving trays and cookie sheets. The clever addition looks like a continuation of your kitchen baseboards but pulls out to reveal a long drawer for flat serveware and bakeware.

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Create Cohesion With Baskets

Put cohesive baskets or bins at the top of your shopping list if your kitchen cabinet works overtime as pantry storage. Here, a set of white baskets corral colorful food, spices and baking items to create one cohesive and clean visual when you open the pantry door. A streamlined set will cut out unnecessary visual clutter and lend your cabinet a polished look that won’t send you into a cleaning frenzy every time you grab a snack.

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Put a Lid on It

The organizing essential everyone needs? A pots and pans lid organizer. This dual-level organizer features a top row that neatly stores all your glass and metal lids in one compact space.

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Hang Out Spot

Avoid the loud clanging of pots and pans when you’re prepping for dinner. Install a pull-out rack system to dangle your pots and pans within your lower cabinet. We’re smitten with this setup because it makes locating specific saucepans and skillets easier and aids in them drying after a wash.

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Repurpose Your Magazine Rack

Get your pot lids in line and free up your cabinet space in one fell swoop with the help of a magazine rack. Install a metal magazine rack on the back of your cabinet door or inner cabinet, then slide your metal and glass lids into each slot. Organize the lids by size, placing the smallest at the top to the largest at the bottom of the rack to yield tidy results.

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Add Appliance Parking With Bi-Fold Doors

Replace traditional cabinet doors with bi-folding doors that kiss your counters a la this kitchen by Interior Archaeology. The switch maximizes storage space by creating a seamless, out-of-sight appliance garage for your stand mixer or coffee maker on the countertop. Take notes from this swoon-worthy set up and organize the upper shelves behind the bi-fold doors with like items to achieve an orderly inventory. And don’t forget to deck out your interior cabinet with leaning artwork or textural backing (grasscloth or paneling) for a designer-worthy setup.

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Turn Your Junk Drawer Into a Tech Charging Station

Clean out your junk drawer (no judgment, we’ve all got one) and install a tech drawer in its place. Invest in an in-drawer outlet with USB ports to create an organized spot to charge your family’s iPad, phones, e-reader and more.

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Create a Spice Drawer

No cabinet space to spare for spices? No problem — make a spice drawer instead. Give your spice drawer a clean look by re-jarring all your mismatched spices and seasonings into matching glass shakers with custom contemporary labels.

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Fill the Gaps

Put the gap between your upper cabinet and kitchen counters to work and create an appliance garage. Measure the distance between the base of your upper cabinet and the top of your counter, then invest in a custom bifold door that matches your existing cabinets to create a seamless look.

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Install Out of Sight Utensil Bins

Keep your kitchen counters clear and utensils within reach with pull-out bins. This pull-out cabinet drawer offers ample inspiration with three metal bins for wooden spoons, spatulas and more, with two tiers of folded dishtowels. Our advice? Install your pull-out utensil bins near your stove or sink for quick and easy food prep and cleaning.

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Put a Pin in It

Put down the hammer, put your hands where we can see them and slowly step away from your cabinet door. You don’t need to add unnecessary holes to your cabinet doors to maximize storage. All you need are a few clothespins, a label maker and superglue gel to create storage for your rubber gloves, fly swatter and just about anything else you can think of under your kitchen sink.

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33 Kitchen Cabinet Organization Ideas

Related To:

Shop This Look

How to Organize Your Kitchen Cabinets Like a Pro

Create Cabinet Cliques

Sharp Solutions

Transparency is Key

Create a Kids' Cutlery Caddy

Organize Table Linens + Accessories

Tidy Up With Trays

File Your Baking Pans + Cookie Sheets

Or, Slip Them Into Your Pull-Out Drawer

Install a Mess-Free Cutting Board Drawer

Group Your Utensils

Fire Up Your Label Maker

Invest in Cohesive Storage Containers

Put Pull Out Pan Storage Beside Your Stove

Maximize Your Storage Space With Under-Cabinet Shelves

Streamline Your Cleaning Supplies

Create a Stemware Drawer

Invest in Pull-Out Drawers

Streamline Your Seasonings With Glass Jars

Keep Plates in Place With Peg Board Drawer Storage

Turn a Serving Tray Into a Coffee Station

Cover Your Blind Spots

Install Toe-Kick Drawers

Create Cohesion With Baskets

Put a Lid on It

Hang Out Spot

Repurpose Your Magazine Rack

Add Appliance Parking With Bi-Fold Doors

Turn Your Junk Drawer Into a Tech Charging Station

Create a Spice Drawer

Fill the Gaps

Install Out of Sight Utensil Bins

Put a Pin in It

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