The Organised Housewife » Tips, ideas, inspiration and motivation to help keep you and your household clean and organised

Masthead header
Jul 20 2011

{Declutter} Around your kitchen sink

Category: Declutter • Kitchen


Join me in a week of decluttering. Please comment below if your able to part with today’s suggestion, I would love to hear from you. Are you following the Declutter 52 things in 52 weeks challenge, more info HERE, it’s never to late to start!

#20 Around the kitchen sink

Today’s quick decluttering task is to declutter around your kitchen sink.  Consider keeping those cleaners that you don’t use often under the kitchen sink.  Store all your sponges and plugs neatly in a dish.  Try and keep around your window sill clutter free.

I keep all my utensils in this IKEA ceramic pot, easy to access and less clutter in the drawers

Using a smaller IKEA ceramic post I keep a non scratch scourer, sponge, plug and bottle brush handy

Clutter free sink areas

image

image 

image

image

 

Love these ideas? Sign up for updates....It's FREE!
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

  • Linderic

    Hello Katrina
    Thanks for the tips and encouragement Just the push I need some days.I am a procrastinator.I would like to know where you got your lovely orchid in the bathroom pic.I would like to get one, maybe not a real one.Makes the room look great.I’m going to look at Ikea for some bits n pieces they may have something .
    Kind Regards Linda

    • http://www.theorganisedhousewife.com.au Katrina

      Hi Linda, I got the orchid from Adairs, pretty isn’t it.

  • Becci Sundberg

    I only keep a thing of soap on tap in my window sill. The dish cloth is hung over the tap and the plug just sits there. Other than that everything else is kept under the sink.

    • http://www.theorganisedhousewife.com.au Katrina

      Beautifully organised!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=745433092 Renee Franks

    At the moment I keep my sink-stuff in a basket so it’s all in one place. My handsoap, dish soap plugs and sponge go in there so they don’t fall off of the bench – ours is in the “peninsula” (rather than an island. lol) and things were constantly falling off. Eventually I’d love to get something a bit more fashionable than blue plastic though! :)

    • http://www.theorganisedhousewife.com.au Katrina

      baskets are great for keeping things organised, great work!

  • http://twitter.com/StuffWithThing Marita

    I try to get around the sink area and kitchen benches cleaned every day. have a bit more clutter on my window ledge than you do because I have some special things sitting there that I like to see everyday. But I find that I need my bench as clutter free as possible. Really helps when all else is chaos to have just that one space always tidy and ready for use.

  • Olwyn

    So now i am confused …what DO you keep under yr kitchen sink then? Great site Katrina. Inspiration is priceless! best Regards, Olwyn

  • Mel Hortin

    I don’t have a lot of clutter around the kitchen sink but I love your idea of putting the sponge and plugs in a small ceramic pot. Will definitely be doing this. Thank you. I love all the ideas on the blog. Mel xxx

  • Peta

    I only have a double hand wash/hand cream dispenser. I have a 3.4 mt long white Caesarstone island bench top and like it clear. Occasionally I have a vase of flowers, but that’s all. I HATE CLUTTER!! A house is so much easier to keep clean without clutter and as I work full time I don’t have a lot of time to do housework.

  • Elle

    yummy kitchens!

  • Tab

    In the unit we rent, the owner had installed 1 of the ikea kitchen hanging bars. Since we knew we going to be here for a while (2 years), we popped into ikea and got some hooks and a basket. Basket holds cutley drainer, sponges, and washing up liquid. Hooks hold brushes and allow us to hang up our dish drainer so it’s off the sink but easily accessible.

    • Tab

      Forgot to add, the hanging bar is right above the sink :)

  • KJ

    Grrr…. Why did you have to chose the kitchen sink??? Mine’s a disaster. I appreciate the optimism of your “quick” cleaning task phrase though!

  • Suzanne

    IKEA has these ergonomic and inexpensive long-handled scrubbers that come in 4 colours.There is a suction at the end of the handle so you can either lay the scrubber down or stand it up. (I stand mine up so the air gets at it from the window) These cost about $1 and last for ages. They are safe on glass and Teflon. The bristles rinse easily of grease and grime (I put them in the dishwasher once a week). I use them every day and often. After about 3 months they get sent to the workshop where hubby puts them to use. I use a SHARPIE marker and draw a ring around the base when the scrubber is old and being used for super grungy work so it does not get mixed up with the others.

    Suzanne in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    • http://www.theorganisedhousewife.com.au Katrina

      that scrubber sounds very handy Suzanne, I haven’t seen it here in the Aussie Ikea stores, but I do use a very cheap kitchen brush from Ikea, love it!