Kitchen Organization: How to Organize Your Kitchen and Streamline Meal Prep

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somewhere, it can be trickier here to carve out additional storage space—especially if you have a small kitchen.) Plus, you’re dealing with a massive quantity of daily-use items that need to be easy-access but that also have very specific storage needs: delicate glassware, bulky gadgets, heavy cookware, clanky baking sheets, bulky cutting boards, and an always-unruly hodgepodge of cooking utensils and silverware.With all of this in mind—and in the interest of starting the new year off in the most sane way possible—we asked some of our favorite professional organizers to serve up some of their best kitchen-organization ideas and hacks.

Start those dishtowels and sorting through that junk drawer, because your transformative kitchen-organization makeover starts now.First things first: Pause and really think about what raw features your kitchen has, and what you need to get out of it.

Do you currently have things set up to flow logically and easily, or might there be a better big-picture way to use the space?

Are your dishes and pots and tools stowed near the area where you’ll use them? “When it comes to kitchen organization, you really want to think about the items you have, the space each item would best fit in, and where in the kitchen you use it,” says professional organizer Corinne Monahan of . “It helps to think about your kitchen in terms of zones.