Family Organization Part 1

I am going to steer away from my favorite blogger topic: Avery to bring a 5 part series on home organziation. We are a two income, two person working family of 3. My daughter goes to a local school 3x a week on the days that I work, my husband works away from the home 5x a week. I feel we've made it work pretty well so far. We eat well, our place is clean/tidy, we manage play w/ work (at least enough for Avery). The only area we are still working on is finding the time to workout! But that's a work in progress for sure. One of my favorite people, Kristin, did a recent post on I Heart Ikea. I loved the grundtal stuff she had installed and decided to do the same for my own kitchen. Let me preface by saying I love the square footage in our home. I wouldn't actually go any higher for our next place. Being that we have 4 floors I would say the layout is the most challenging. We actually have a galley kitchen which is really small & narrow so space: storage, counterspace, cabinet space is an ever evolving issue. The space above our kitchen island we really needed to maximize. Especially since Avery is now into everything that is eye level or below. You really can't "babyproof" enough. My favorite is the paper towel holders that I use for aluminium foil & wax paper - 2 all time cooking & baking pieces for me. It was easy to install and yes the first time was the charm (oddly for us). Though it's tiny, the kitchen is really my 2nd office and thank goodness it now resides next to our office. Tomorrow we'll review the pantry I created over many months!