Mum-of-two shares her incredible baking and dry goods cupboard

‘I want to marry this drawer’: Mum-of-two shares her incredible $270 kitchen creation – and the genius method she uses to keep everything in place

  • Rachael Hallett from Mum’s Who Organise has shared kitchen drawers
  • The mum-of-two and her husband cut holes in the base of the drawers
  • They were then able to slot in a selection of IKEA tubs to hold ingredients
  • The fit out was completed with decadent labels from Lovely Label Co 

Trying to find what you’re looking for in a cluttered pantry is most mothers’ worst nightmare.

So Rachael Hallett, from Melbourne, decided to ditch the stacked shelves and invent her own kitchen drawers with an individual place for each baking and dry good ingredient.

The clever mother-of-two posted the result to the Mums Who Organise Facebook group, with many of the followers impressed by her ingenious trick.

 

The clever mother-of-two posted the result to the Mums Who Organise Facebook group, with many of the followers impressed by her ingenious trick

She used IKEA's tillsluta range of tubs, which are sold for $7 in various sizes, and a homemade insert to fit the containers in

She used IKEA’s tillsluta range of tubs, which are sold for $7 in various sizes, and a homemade insert to fit the containers in

‘This is my baking drawer. It is so much easier than having to sort in the pantry and super convenient,’ she said.

She used IKEA’s tillsluta range of tubs, which are sold for $7 in various sizes, and a homemade insert to fit the containers in – with the two drawers pictured costing $270 to build.

‘It’s so simple. It’s a sheet of melamine with square holes cut into it,’ she explained.

The decadent labels were purchased from Lovely Label Co for that extra pizzazz.

Inside the drawers she stores flour, cocoa, sugar, desiccated coconut, beef stock, coffee, milo, popcorn and even the KFC chicken herbs recipe.

Rachael’s top tips for staying organised 

Keep it simple: don’t create a complicated system that only you can use. Make sure the whole family can use it.

Think about how you want the area to function before you decide on anything else. Make the pretty things work in with function – that should be the priority.

When you’re overwhelmed find one area that annoys you most. Once you identify that area it’s much easier to come up with a plan.

Know yourself and your limits. I HATE folding so when I designed my wardrobe/drawers I made sure to not include folding – I know it won’t happen. 

Rachael has managed to transform each of the drawers in her kitchen, with a dry goods and spices one also helping to make life easier when she tries to cook each day.

One of the group’s followers questioned how she remembered the used by dates.

‘I don’t keep track, there isn’t anything here that worries me. If I really wanted to I would use white board or chalk marker on the bottom,’ she explained.

While more were simply happy to feast their eyes on the neatness – with one woman stating: ‘I want to marry this drawer.’

To stay organised, Rachael told FEMAIL she keeps things simple and creates things the whole family can use and chooses one area to focus on at a time.   

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