Sage

Those are good Ideas...

How much cabnet space are you working with? Do you *really* need everything that you have? How old are all these different things?

I'd say- start with a purge of your pantry. Throw out everything that is out of date or that you won't ever eat. That usually clears up a lot of room. Take all the baking stuff- flour, rice, whatever, and put it into containers- like the stainless steel ones you mentioned, but tupperware would probably be cheaper (that's what all my flour, rice, etc is in). The pics above are nice solutions towards the teas.

Also, keep in mind that if you just put stuff in bins and stack it all, you'll have to take it alll back out in order to get at whatever is in the back. The sliding drawer thingee as shown above would make it super easy to get to what you need when you need it and keep things clutter free and easily accessible.

As to the magnetic thingee- make sure that the magnet is strong enough to hold your knives. Sounds simple, I know, but it's important- you want those suckers to be *stuck* to the wall and not easily jarred off. Falling knives = not good! Do you have a block of knives of a specific brand or just a bunch of random ones you've picked up along the way? If you've got a specific brand, look for the knife holder that is sold by that brand. The magnet will be gaurenteed to be strong enough.

Look upon cleaning up your kitchen as an oppurtunity to really clean out everything- chipped glassware, old stained dishtowels, some of those fifty thousand coffee cups lurking in the back of the cabnet... that kinda thing. I did the same thing about three months ago and it was great! One more thing- practally every kitchen gadget (zester, peeler, handheld can opener, juicer, measuring spoons, etc) can be hung on the wall. There's the pegboard option like shown above- hell, I just have nails in teh wall and all that stuff is hung on the wall- makes for super easy access and frees up my (very limited) drawer space!

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