The Kitchen Drawer Mistake That Is Making It Harder To Stay Organized

There is always one trend or the other surfacing online, claiming to revolutionize kitchen storage. Some of them try, but others fall short. As a trendy kitchen storage design, deep drawers are popular with anyone who hates fumbling around cabinets, matching lids to pots and pans. However, replacing all or most of your cabinets with these drawers might not be the storage hack you expect it to be. Very deep drawers, while ideal for pots and pans, make organizing a lot of other common kitchen items and supplies much more difficult. It's possible to utilize deep drawer space for maximum storage, but having too many of them can lead to a frustrating kitchen layout. 

The main problem with a deep drawer is that you are limited in how you can organize everything. Stacking items is inevitable, but you cannot see what is at the bottom if there are items stacked on top of each other. If you store pantry items in these drawers, you also run into everything sliding and toppling over as you slide them open and close. It's especially true if you try to stack a variety of shapes and sizes of pantry items together. Deep drawers might be one of the best ways to store and organize pots and pans for a clutter-free kitchen, but to organize other items, you might find them less user-friendly. Even if you organize them expertly, you are often left with wasted space.

Along with giving you more work to organize your kitchen items, deep drawers can have an unexpected, negative impact. Unfortunately, it is very easy to accidentally squash smaller items beneath larger, heavier ones. If your kitchen storage is predominantly deep drawers, you have limited areas to organize ceramic serving dishes, delicate porcelain plates, and other similar items, unless they stack nicely. But add in the difficulty of organizing such deep storage spaces, and you still have a recipe for trouble. You might find that it's all too easy to accidentally place something breakable at the bottom or find your dish pile toppled one day, unless you also invest in specific drawer organizers for specific dishware.

Another possibility with deep, hard-to-organize drawers is that you can store too much in them at one time. Weight distribution can be tricky. If you are not very careful about what you store and how you store it, you can damage your items or even damage the drawer itself. So you might want to think deeply before replacing all your cabinets with this type of drawer. If you have very heavy items, you need to have proper storage, like robust shelving, instead. Alternatively, be prepared to learn how to maximize organization for deep drawers if you still want to go for them.