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09.09.2024 - 14:34 / thespruce.com / Nishaa Sharma
Let's be honest: staying on top of cleaning and organizing every room in your home can get overwhelming—and before you know it, piles of junk on countertops and crammed-full kitchen cabinets can feel unmanageable.
Major decluttering sessions take up a lot of precious time, so your kitchen is starting to become cramped and chaotic instead of open and inviting, it might be time to try building some new daily and weekly habits.
To help, we spoke to three professional organizers, who shared the top tips they give their clients looking for low-effort ways to keep their kitchen clutter-free.
Britt Design Studio
All of our organizing experts agree that the countertop is one of the most important spots to keep decluttered in a kitchen.
While keeping some must-haves out and styling them on trays and risers ensures the kitchen stays functional, having as clear a surface as possible leaves plenty of room for food prep and makes counters and kitchen islands much easier to clean.
«Try paring your countertop back to the essentials, then monitor what type of things end there over a week,» Amelié Saint-Jacques of Amelie Organizes suggests.
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Ashley Montgomery Design
Maintaining a clean, organized kitchen is much easier when you break things down into small, bite-sized habits to build each day, instead of waiting for a Sunday reset and letting messes and clutter accumulate throughout the week.
This is why Saint-Jacques recommends that all of her clients try the 'closing shift' method, which involves working through a 5-10 minute list of tasks each evening after dinner.
«Do a nightly reset by making sure
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