Have a well organized baking space
Here I share with you my baking supplies organizing tips so that you can create a stress-free evironment that maximize your productivity, let’s get organized! Also, you can watch how I organize my baking room in action here.
Top 10 organising tips for baking supplies Part 2 – 5 more tips
Following on from my last post about my top 10 baking supplies organizing tips for your – here is Part 2: tips 6 to 10 for the MOST organised baking room you could ever want!
“Organising is a practice, NOT a project!”
Watch this video tutorial
Here are the baking supplies organizing tips no. 6 – no. 10
Tip six: Make good use of the wall space
If you have a plain wall, try to see it as a storage opportunity. I would highly recommend using pegboards to hang things out. I use the pegboard from IKEA. The boards come in two different sizes, you can mix and match according to your needs but think in that vertical dimension as I mentioned earlier – vertical gives great opportunities that most people miss.
There are different accessories that come with the IKEA pegboard. There are containers, hooks, boxes, clips and elastic. If you think outside the box, you can store all sorts of things away from your drawers where they lie unseen and hard to find. An example of this is my rolling pins – they are a pain to store in a drawer, who’d have thought the walls were the dream place to keep them?
The final great thing about using a pegboard is its flexibility. You can easily arrange and rearrange your accessories on the pegboard to suit your needs, it becomes a dynamic storage space.
I just LOVE it! You shouldn’t have storage favourites but if I did…
Tip Seven: Keep your countertop clear
This is probably the most challenging one for everybody. Sound familiar to you? Hahaha …
Trying your VERY VERY best to keep your countertop clear is one of the most important factors to help you stay organised. However, it is just TOO easy to put things onto it, especially when you are multitasking. Here is the thing that you need to remember …
‘Always put things AWAY instead of just putting them down!’
It makes sense, doesn’t it?
If you follow this simple rule, I am 100% sure that your countertop will be clear all the time. Having a clear countertop or work surface always calms me down – then I can start my project right away with a clear mind and I don’t need to waste my time clearing it up before I actually start. It helps me stay focused and work more efficiently.
Tip Eight: Categorise the items
This tip can apply to everything, no matter if it is large items, such as baking pans, or small items, like rubber bands.
Categorise things and store them in storage bins or on a shelf. By doing this, you can find them without any stress.
As a baker, I totally understand the number of tools or materials that I need when creating a project. So, categorising the different items or tools is a ‘MUST’, so that when I need that particular tool, I know where to find it.
There is a slight downside of this as it may take up a little bit more space. For example, I only have 4 forks in my baking kit but I don’t want to mix with the knives, so I separate them into two containers. If I need a fork in a hurry, I know I just need to go to that particular container to grab one.
Although it sounds like a small thing, it does make a difference during the baking process.
Tip Nine: Use the same style of dishware
Imagine when you open the cupboard, every single bowl is different in colour, shape and size … (maybe you don’t need to imagine) what does it look like? One thing you can’t do, when you stack them together, is to do it neatly and efficiently.
That’s why this tip is to use the same style of dishware.
I totally understand when you see beautiful cute bowls or stylish mason jars, you would think of thousands of reasons why you should buy them but … hang on … before you decide you have to buy it … think carefully first …
If you have the SAME style of dishware …
- It can save you a huge amount of space. Because they are in the same style so they come in the same shape. It makes it easy to stack them up from the smallest to the biggest. As a result, you can have 10 bowls or may be more in one stack: super efficient!
- Because they are in the same style and same shape, when you store them in the cabinets or on the shelves, they look uniform and they are easy to find … that means it helps you look and feel organised. No more messy, multi coloured, nightmare cupboard. No more chipping things as you are sorting through them. No more stress because you can’t find things.
So … when you see a ‘MUST BUY’ bowl or jar… STOP…THINK first … do I want it or do I need it? Pretty or useful? Today’s impulse can be tomorrow’s unused junk at the back of the cupboard.
Tip Ten: A place for everything, everything in its place
Last but not least, this is a very famous idiom for storing and organising things. It means you need to find a designated ‘home’ for an object and make sure it is returned to that particular place after it has been used every time so that you can easily find it next time you need it. This is probably the MOST important tip for being organised.
I hope these tips can inspire or help you to apply them in your own spaces. Your kitchen is your domain….make it yours, know where everything is, make it look good so that you feel good working in it. Remember – functional and stylish is the aim. You spend a lot of time in this space, make it work for you, not against you.
5 more organizing tips for your baking supplies
Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you find these 5 tips useful! I’d really appreciate it, if you have tried at least one of the tips, if you’d let me know if it helped or not. Please make sure you check out my another post – part one for 5 top tips of organising your baking supplies.
If you’ve any tips or tricks how to stay organised, please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know what you thought. I’ll be excited to learn and we bakers must stick together.
Happy organising!
