The Genius Hidden Cabinet Feature That Will Revolutionize Your Kitchen Storage

Small kitchen with minimal storage space? No problem. While it may seem impossible to find extra space to store your items in a kitchen that feels a teensy bit too narrow, there are quite a few clever ways to optimize your small kitchen without having to tack on more cabinets, shelves, or — worse — throw it all in your pantry. For example, have you considered adding a slim drawer at the open space by your feet?

Tired of reaching under your cabinet to sweep the floor? With this genius hack you can avoid it altogether and score more storage — a win-win, if we're being honest. This slim drawer is a complete game changer for anyone desperate for more kitchen space, and a no-brainer solution for those oddly-shaped items you never know where to put. Tall cleaning supplies? Reusable bags? Bulky kitchen tools that are difficult to store in smaller cabinets? This drawer can serve as the solution. Here's an example of how this can be done, inspired by DIY home decor influencer @trezentosedois on Instagram.

This clever drawer is situated in the slim place between the bottom kitchen cabinets and the floor. It's long enough to take up the entire width of the side wall and deep enough to store a plethora of items. Thanks to the width, this drawer can fit items that tend to be trickier to store to begin with, such as brooms, mops, dustpans, detachable vacuums, and reusable shopping bags. If the drawer is close to the oven, this could also be a clever space to store larger cooking tools such as skillets, sheet pans, and tins for muffins and pastries.

This particular design works well for a kitchen with a wall oven, which has been designed to keep items stored nearby safe from the heat. A standalone oven will not work for this kind of contraption, but some standalone ovens have a storage drawer at the bottom already. Just be sure to not store anything plastic or flammable in that drawer, and stick to heat-proof items instead, like cast iron skillets.

If you're on the hunt for even more secret hacks to add storage to your kitchen, scan the entire room and consider the other open spaces around your cabinets that aren't getting used. Similar to the slim drawer by your feet, why not maximize the open space above your cabinet and make it double stacked? Not only does this minimize the amount of dusting you need to do, but a double-stacked cabinet can also serve as decor for your kitchen. Use glass doors and add a set of internal lights to transform your cabinets into display cases for the items you like to show off (and likely rarely use), like your fancy champagne glasses or that china tea set passed down by your grandmother.

Small appliances can stick out like a sore thumb on countertops, and also take up too much space, which is especially frustrating if you're working with a small space to begin with. Consider adding an appliance garage to easily store and hide those kitchen appliances you don't need all the time, like toasters and slow cookers and waffle makers. An appliance garage can either be a large drawer in your cabinet, or a special designated space on the counter that can be covered with a door or a curtain.