Kitchen Command Center 2.0

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Family Kitchen Command Center

A little over a year ago, I shared our kitchen command center with you on the blog… it was great and got a LOT of use. And then…we moved leaving that specific space behind. This new house poses different organizational needs and I’ve also learned what aspects of that old command center were GREAT and what aspects weren’t as important ultimately. As a result, our Command Center 2.0 is OFF THE HOOK! I love seeing it every time I come into the kitchen and I’m SO excited to share it with you today!!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

I decided to use this one long wall right when you walk into our kitchen. Similar to the old command center, it’s easily accessible and big enough to hold some storage.

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Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Must haves? A place to collect papers. So SO many papers come through the door. A place to store scissors and pens. There is clearly a tiny family of hoarding elves who specialize in grown up pens and scissors that live with us. I always end up with a ‘junk bowl’ on the counter… a smallish bowl that catches spare change, ear buds, rogue paper clips… that sort of thing. And finally… I never really used the dry erase board that was part of our old command center, but I love having a cork board for business cards, receipts, notes from school, etc. Bonus if I could find a way to make it all look cool and stylish!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Care to have a tour of Command Center 2.0? Get your popcorn (extra butter…) and settle in for a looksie. I started by adding a little pattern to the wall itself. I used 1/4″ floral tape so the lines aren’t as crisp as I would like. But from a few feet back, you can’t tell. I wanted the wood grain to shine through a clean neutral wall vs. just using a white paint pen as the pattern on top of the wood grain. And that’s the pattern from my old blog background so there’s a subtle nod to the former site! Thank goodness we were able to adios that yellow wall color and the white makes almost as much of a difference as the command center!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

 

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

I had an old cork board that I covered with some fabric from my scrap pile. This is a simple way to add a little fun to plain Jane cork. I used spray adhesive to hold the fabric on the cork, then went around the inside edge of the frame with brass thumbtacks. (I’m terrible at putting these in straight so I added a faint pencil line to help guide me… I should have gone so far as to actually measure out where each thumbtack should go!) I finished it by wrapping the fabric around to the back and securing with my hot glue gun.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Right below the cork board (and out of reach from wandering little kid fingers) is pen/ scissor storage. These are wooden cheese boxes I saw at the flea market. I used a pair of screw eyes to attach each box to the wall. Aren’t they so fun?

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Below my pen storage are these two Ikea baskets. I’ve had them for a jillion years and I think maybe they’re meant for bathroom storage? I mention only so you don’t get fixated on ‘office’ storage when looking for organization solutions! These are sturdy enough to hold my junk bowl if need be!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

I saw these magnetic storage containers at Homegoods for $4 or something and brought them home. Orginally they were gray, so I hit them with some white spray paint. Better.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

These white wooden pockets are great and were integral for the function of the first command center. They were from Homegoods.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Last but certainly not least… I got the idea of storing a roll of paper using plumbing supplies from Susan at Living Rich on Less, but there was no obvious way to remove the paper without unscrewing the entire rig on hers. I used 2 floor flanges and 2 elbow joints and then a small tension rod between the elbows to hold the roll of paper!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

And that’s all she wrote! Loving. It. So far it’s helping combat the clutter that naturally collects on the counters in our kitchen and it’s crackalackin to look at too!!

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Want some glamour shots? Me too…

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

Organize your family with this creative use of one small kitchen wall.

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What a great way to organize an entire family using only one small wall in our kitchen!

 

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20 Comments

    1. Girl, you need to come and Connecticut and take in the wonder that is this paint color in person. It’s like an ochre. Probably big at some point, but it changes the color of EVERYthing in this room. Impossible to photograph and generally driving my bonkers. 🙂

  1. I like the version in your first house way better! when i opened this post, i thought the first pic was a “before” showing how things looked before you got it all organized

    1. Not a particularly kind comment, but I guess I appreciate the feedback? Seems like you could simply have said how much you enjoyed the first post without insulting the second but that’s just me.

    2. well I love IT TOOT! And I agree with Charlotte.

      Did you really think when you clicked on a link somewhere on the internet to take you to a “kitchen Command CENTER” that you were going to see a blank wall with a fern hanging on IT AS the after photo? Save your negativity for chat rooms and online FORUMS.

      Great job CHARLOTTE, I bet it really helps you stay organized!