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Maximize Your Cabinet Doors
Stick a few adhesive hooks to the inside of each one to hang measuring cups, oven mitts or stand-mixer attachments, like Coordinately Yours blogger Julie Blanner did. You could also add a few adhesive plastic folders—the same kind you'd find at an office-supply store—to hold Tupperware lids, or attach a file organizer to keep cutting boards upright and orderly.

— Candace Braun Davison

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Think Vertically
Tension rods aren't just useful for hanging curtains in a flash or doubling your under-sink storage—they can also streamline your kitchen cupboards. Install them vertically on a shelf to create custom dividers for storing your baking sheets, muffin tins and cutting boards, as Brette Sember recommends in The Organized Kitchen, and you can avoid dealing with an avalanche of trays any time you try to wriggle one out. It could shave a minute or two off your fridge-to-table cooking record.

— Candace Braun Davison

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Upgrade Your Cabinets
Constantly forgetting what's hidden in the deep, dark backs of your cabinets? Pull-out shelves make the most of this tricky space, so you can avoid knocking over five pans before reaching the one you want. These custom gliding shelves from This Old House magazine can hold up to 100 pounds and will give your kitchen a more complete look. Follow the publication's straightforward building plan here.

— Pamela Masin

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Focus Your Fridge
Organizing guru Peter Walsh uses clear plastic trays (Fridge Binz; Organize.com) to separate cheese from condiments from baking supplies. When he's grilling outside, he simply grabs the entire condiments tray (ditto the cheese tray most evenings). Bonus: No need to scrub dried maple syrup from the far corners of his fridge.

— Meredith Bryan

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Divide and Conquer Your Drawers
Store small implements in drawers closest to where they'll get used. Chef Cat Cora corrals all of the prep items (lemon press, measuring spoons) into a drawer in her kitchen island and all the cooking items (spatulas, tongs, basting brush) into one by the stove. Bamboo dividers keep things organized.

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Make Cleanup Easier
Blanner recommends taking half an hour to sort your supplies into labeled bins: everyday cleaners, dishwashing goods, specialty cleaners and miscellaneous. You can easily pull out the bin you need for the task at hand—saving time—and keep tabs on what you actually have, avoiding that whole three-half-empty-bottles-of-Windex thing (and thus saving you money).

— Candace Braun Davison

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Load Your Dishwasher a Better Way
Clean Mama blogger Becky Rapinchuk, who is author of The Organically Clean Home, loads items in groups to make it easier for her 8-year-old daughter to unload the washer later (e.g., all drinking glasses go in the same row, all kids' plastic cups are together, all large dinner plates are near each other). If you used any utensils that separate from their handles, such as rubber spatulas, pull the pieces apart before loading, or dirty water may collect inside. And just before you turn the machine on, follow this advice from the experts at Mr. Appliance: Run the hot water in the kitchen sink so the cycle will begin with hot water.

—Lynn Andriani