For week 26 of the 52 Weeks of Organizing, I took care of another shelf. This time it was one of the shelves in the upper corner cabinet in our kitchen. When I first moved our tea and coffee to that space, I put in one of those stepped risers. Can you see it in the back right side of the photo…empty? This clearly wasn’t working.
First I took everything out of the cabinet:
A couple of things migrated into the space that didn’t belong. There was also too much in the space since we have received a lot of tea as gifts. I added some of the unopened tea to our donation box. (Yes, we’re down to a single box! We finally had another garage sale in May and then donated everything that was left and started a new donate box.)
I moved around the “keeper” teas so that they would take up less space. (Eg, some of the loose tea went from short and wide containers to tall and thin glass jars that I saved and the few bags that were left in the large tin (bottom left of photo above) were moved into a small box.
Next I borrowed a lazy susan from the dining room where it was underutilized.
Finally I added everything to the lazy susan. The only thing that isn’t on the tray is coffee filters, which I plan to replace with a reusable filter once they run out. (It seems like I never buy coffee filters but also never run out of them though?)
Your cupboard looks good…look all your tea…yum!
We have two corner cabinets in our kitchen and I hate them because they’re glass fronted but I can’t keep them organized – I never thought of using a lazy Susan…guess what I’m on the lookout for now!
Thanks! I’ve always thought the glass-front cabinets were beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with yours!
I need to do some serious reorganizing of my entire apt this week!!! I’ve been living here about a month and I feel like when we moved in, we just put things places. There isn’t a lot of storage in our kitchen, but I def could be making better use of what we have.
Thanks for the inspiration
Glad you like the idea!
Oh my gosh, I had no idea you could get a reusable coffee filter!! We try to live a zero waste life (no trash and limited recycling), and this is one step closer! Just looked on Amazon and there it is, $3. Thank you so much for mentioning this!
Yay for zero waste! That’s what we’re striving for too. (For now the coffee filters go in the compost.)
I love the lazy susan idea. I have a difficult corner cupboard and a tea addiction (I’m British). So I’m going to see if this will work for me. However, I NEVER have any tea I want to get rid of!
I love your site and already have bookmarked another of your ideas, the decorated drawer dividers.
Thanks Stella! I know what you mean about the tea addiction. One of my roommates was from London and lived in NY for a couple years. I really learned to appreciate tea when I lived with her!
I definitely need to tackle our tea cabinet. It is completely overflowing. I’m pretty sure that will be an “after the move” project since we’ll only be here for about another month. I love the lazy susan idea and they seem to be an easy find at thrift stores.