User Friendly Kitchen

Our mini remodel in the kitchen has made more progress in making the kitchen  more user friendly.    This past week H did some painting and construction work in the cabinets under the stove.

I almost didn't show you the before photos because the area really looked much worse than I thought after we took everything off the shelves.....lol!  
 The first thing H did was remove the center shelf....why you ask....because I didn't have a shelf anywhere in the kitchen that had enough "head room" to put the mixer on.     For all these years,  we had to go to the garage to get the mixer.    I think that we will use the big mixer a lot more now that it is handy.    The pretty red mixer was a Christmas gift from H and I to my mother about ten years ago 

H also plugged a strip into the electric outlet at the back of the cabinet....which we could never use.... and hung the strip right at the front where it will be really handy.

Since the mixer will be stored there now,   I decided to put some of my "baking needs" in the same area too.    I put some big mixing bowls by the mixer.   The aqua set of 4 bowls  are ones that H and I got over 40 years ago in our wedding shower.   We still use them all the time.   

I have a chicken wire basket to hold all my cupcake supplies.....

The colored mixing bowls are ones that my mother collected over the years.   I had another complete set that I gave to our daughter to use.     The glass rolling pin belonged to my grand mother and the rest I have collected over the years.

I have my measuring spoons and cups handy     You can see my French cutting board behind them.

Can you see how the basket of cupcake supplies fits nicely over the bowls when the door is shut?

The cupcake picture on the door and the one inside the cabinet are from an outdated calender that I had.   H just stapled them to the wood.  
My pink measuring cups are hung on cup hooks and have a fabric bow tied to the hook that matches the other fabric I have used in the kitchen.
  I think H is going to start painting the inside of the cabinets on each side of these Monday,  so I will be back soon with more photos of our mini kitchen remodel


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