Since my post on organizing my teaching materials, I’ve had a request for more posts on organization. So, here is our solution for kitchen overflow. Our kitchen is a good sized kitchen, but it does lack one major component: a pantry. We’ve managed to relegate most of the food to 4 cabinets, which leaves 5 cabinets for dishes, pots, pans, blender & mixer, Tupperware … in other words, it leaves the other five full. :) Just around the kitchen, we incorporated kitchen overflow storage in the living room bookcase and desk. The apartment does not have a linen closet where we could store table clothes, candles or table decorations, so these also got incorporated into the living room. Here’s how it turned out: