A efficient and tidy kitchen!

[Lynday]

Good afternoon everyone :D

So, we will soon be planning our brand new kitchen, which I am very excited about. I've never had a proper kitchen before, my last one was three cupboards in a flat and the one I have now came with the house and is grotty, old and clearly not put together very well at all! Bleurgh!

Anyways, I love coming on here and reading up on handy housekeeping tips - I am not ashamed! And I was wondering if anyone could help me design the most practical kitchen ever, by telling me what they do in theirs to keep if efficient and tidy!

At the moment I am pondering over:
-Where do you keep your dish cloth that is in use once the washing up is done?

• How do you store and sort your recycling?
• How have you organised your cupboards?
• What do you keep on the counters/tidy away?

I'm sure there are more questions but I can't think of any at the moment.

Please share your tips and enlighten me! :)

An efficient. Grrrr

Bins ( regular and recycling) inside a cupboard. Preferably in built in bins

Dish cloth - we use a dishmatic, stands in a wooden storage cup next to sink

We have boiling water tap built in so no kettle needed on side, and microwave built in so not on side.

Spice racks built inside cupboard doors ( ie on backs of doors)

We are in the process of getting quotes for our new kitchen and one of the idea I am pinching from a friend is to put a couple of stick on hooks on the inside of the sink cupboard door. She has tied a clothes peg to a piece of string - elastic band or ribbon is also fine. She then clips the tea towel and cleaning cloth to a peg each and hangs them from the hook so they are out of site but easy to reach.

We are also getting one of those metal bars put up to hold slotted spoons, fish slice etc as I hate rummaging through a drawer for them.

My old kitchen had a very handy thin drawer underneath the oven where you could store foil, greaseproof, cling film etc. underneath my oven in the current place, there is the same space, but it's just the cabinet material (no drawer/won't open) and it seems like such a waste.

• Where do you keep your dish cloth that is in use once the washing up is done? On the drainer.
• How do you store and sort your recycling? Carrier bag on a hook that is on the inside of a cupboard door (for plastics, paper and cardboard), taken out and emptied when I do other rubbish.
• How have you organised your cupboards? Hmm, not really organised. Two drawers so one is for everyday stuff and the other for stuff that isn't used much, all cutlery type items. Other cupboards fairly random.
• What do you keep on the counters/tidy away - On counters: kettle and tea making stuff, toaster, bread board, chopping board, bread bin, timer, mugs on a mug tree. Pens and sellotape on top of fridge. Everything else in cupboards/drawers. I keep spice jars on a rack in a cupboard as they used to get dusty on a counter.