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Sunny Yellow Storage: Sunshine Canister Rack

Need a dose of sunshine? Looking for a way to organize your spices or loose-leaf tea during this last week of the Fall Kitchen Cure? This sunshine yellow canister rack should help you out on both coun...

Make A DIY Bar From A Vintage Trunk

Having lived in extra small spaces before, we've often run across the need to store some of our kitchen items, well, out of the kitchen. One of the easiest things to pawn off into another room is yo...

Reader Organization Tip: How To Store Cookie Cutters
The Fall 2009 Kitchen Cure

Are you busy deep-cleaning and fixing up your kitchen this week? What small project have you tackled? Here's one very small project that nevertheless can really make a difference in a small cupboard o...

Can a Julia Child-Style Peg Board Work In My Kitchen?
Good Questions

Q: Last week, Mark Bittman of the New York Times blogged about photographer Pedro Guerrero's experience shooting Julia Child's kitchen. I fell in LOVE with her peg board wall — it would be the m...

Turn Your Empty Cans into Storage for Kitchen Tools
HGTV

First things first: Find some canned goods with really cool labels......

Survey: Do You Have More than One Freezer?

As we talk about all things chilly and frozen this month, we're wondering how many of you have an extra freezer (maybe one of those big chests in the garage?) to store batches of homemade ice cream, b...

Two Ways To Freeze and Preserve Fresh Herbs

Our favorite garden blogger, Margaret Roach of A Way To Garden, is spearheading a fun summer event called Summer Fest 2009 — a celebration of summer gardening, cooking, and fresh food. One of ...

City Dish Rack and Stacking Canisters: Two Small Kitchen Solutions from Urban Kitchen

We get a lot of questions about two things that tend to take up excess room in the kitchen: storage canisters and dish racks. We've explored dish racks with small footprints, but here's one that looks...

Before and After: Dramatic Cupboard Makeover

We really wish we had seen this cupboard makeover during the first weeks of the Kitchen Cure; it's a very dramatic before and after! Read on to see the BEFORE photo and the secret weapon of this trans...

How To: Stay Scratch Free
When You Don't Have A Pot Rack

We've never been to big on the idea of pot racks. Although many people couldn't live without them, we're personally to clumsy to be wielding large heavy pans over our heads and when you have 20 ft c...

Tip: Store Your Standing Mixer Attachments in the Bowl

Do you do this? We've never known any other way of corralling all our mixer attachments. Our mother put hers in the bowl, and we've always done the same. Whether your mixer is a KitchenAid or somethin...

Kitchen Spotlight: Scott's Vintage Oven & Basement Pantry

This kitchen is a little different from most of the small urban kitchens we spotlight here; it's from a cabin in the country, first of all, and it also has a lot more storage than most of our homes. B...

How To Install a Cookware Pegboard

We're in the final stretch of the February Jumpstart - all the entries are in, and we have a few more to show you this week before the winners are decided. But there's still time for you to get that o...

Tip: Measure Your Cabinets Before You Buy New Dishes

Or, perhaps, measure your existing dishes before you buy cabinets for a new kitchen. We've noticed that, in all of the apartments we've lived in, the standard cabinetry is too shallow for our dinner ...

Food Science: The Best Place to Store Tomatoes...and Why

In our review of Creamy Creamless Tomato Soup last week, we accidentally divulged that we'd been storing our fresh tomatoes in the fridge - a big no-no that many of you were quick to point out! You w...

Thursday Giveaway: OXO Scoop and Store Combo

Giveaway: 3 sets of an OXO Ice Cream Spade and POP 1.5 Small Square Container Find it: POP 1.5 Small Square Container, $9.99 at Amazon; OXO Good Grips Ice Cream Spade, also $9.99 at Amazon Ice Cream ...

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Store Potatoes

Humble, versatile, and economical, potatoes are truly the workhorse vegetable of our kitchen. We also love them because they keep for a very long time and even improve with age. (Unlike certain other ...

Kitchen Tour Favorites: Five Creative Storage Solutions

Our tour yesterday of Biggie's well-organized and bento-optimized kitchen made us think back over some of our favorite creative storage solutions from past kitchen tours. Read on to see our top five.....

Shaker Boxes for Picnics
Seen, noted, and found delicious. 06.17.08

Delicious links - the pretty edition. Here are a few things we're admiring today....

Good Product: Spin N' Stor

When one has a small kitchen, one wants as little clutter as possible. This can be hard to do with so much necessary kitchen equipment, and when we find something that's practical and compact, we jum...

Survey: What's the Best Way to Store Leftovers?

We employ all kinds of methods when wrapping up leftovers. We save take-out containers and re-use them, we ball things up in aluminum foil, and we've been known to stick an entire stock pot half-fille...

Kitchen Spotlight: Holly and Sean's Hot Pink

It's the first day of May and the sun is shining! We're ready to throw open the windows and bring color into the kitchen. For inspiration we turned to a favorite house tour from San Francisco, a tour ...

Reader Tip: Store Greens in Recycled Salad Containers

We liked this tip from reader and Cure-taker RebeccaCT. She says that when she brings fresh greens home from the market, or when they arrive in the CSA box, she cuts off the stems and repacks them in ...

Kitchen Spotlight: The Beauty of Built-In Cabinets

As we work our way into the first-ever 8 Step Kitchen Cure, the first thing to confront us is the sheer amount of bags, packages, jars, shakers, boxes, and packets stuffed into the cupboards. As we po...

Entertaining Tip: Add Height to Buffet Tables With IKEA

It's one of the oldest entertaining tricks in the book - adding height to a display table by sticking shoeboxes or coffee cans under your tablecloth, then setting platters on top of them. The only p...

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