A clean and nice looking modern kitchen always adds an wow factor in our cozy home. If you have a open concept floor plan for living space, dinning area and kitchen, and kitchen remains messy and dirty, the entire house will earn some bad impression from your visitors. Even if the layout is not open, still we need to keep our kitchen clean and organized for our own convenience and satisfaction. The following is a list of factors that are very important for me to keep my kitchen clean, organized and beautiful:
An organized kitchen: If you do not have an organized kitchen, you or the person who cooks for the family needs to spend some extra time, effort and energy to find stuffs that he needs for cooking. Often it costs patience too. With an organized kitchen you can reduce the amount of time you spend in the kitchen. See more...
Dirty dish free kitchen sink: Kitchen sink should be free from dirty dishes. Instead of cleaning a single dish, we often keep building up the number of dirty dishes in the sink so that we do not need to wash dishes several times a day. But cleaning those dishes take a long time which can be reduced by cleaning those immediately after each use. Also, try to clean kitchen sink at least once a day.
However, if you have a dishwasher and if you usually use that, in that case, instead of accumulating dishes in the sink, keep putting those in dishwasher, sink will remain dish free.
However, if you have a dishwasher and if you usually use that, in that case, instead of accumulating dishes in the sink, keep putting those in dishwasher, sink will remain dish free.
Clean countertops: A kitchen does not look good if you have too many stuffs on countertops. With clean countertops, a kitchen look nicer and bigger. Make use of kitchen cabinets and drawers and keep the countertops free from stuffs. Having a pantry is a good idea too. If you do not have any of those, try to use shelves and some nice storage boxes. In order to get rid of dirty residue and to add some shine in your kitchen, wipe off countertops as often as you feel like cleaning is required.
Clean backsplash: Kitchen backspash get dirty with oils spills and spices very quickly if you prepare fried food regularly. It is a good idea to wipe off backsplash immediately after frying something so that oils and spices do not build up over there. Tiled backspash is lot easier to clean. However, if yours one is not tiled, try to protect it by putting a fire resistant cover.
Clean floor: Try to broom your kitchen floor immediately after cooking. Mopping should be done at least every second day.
Clean kitchen appliances: Maintaining clean appliances (e.g. stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave oven) not too easy. Its costs a lot of time. However, by cleaning the exterior with damp cloth, paper towel/ wipes every day and cleaning the interior with a certain interval will make the kitchen look sparkly from inside and out.
However, it is very difficult for a single person to do and maintain all the work in a kitchen all by himself. On the other hand, keeping the kitchen beautiful will become lot easier when other family members will get involved to help and share the workload. Thus, everyone in the home will be able to share the pride for their beautiful kitchen.
I agree about "Kitchen sink should be free from dirty dishes" which is very rare at Bachelor apartment. In subcontinent, if you have a maid servant you might have pile of dishes in every kitchen.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. I know, keeping the sink free from dirty dishes is not a fun thing to do. So, this is not only a rare picture at bachelor apartment but also rare at most of the family apartment too. With family, each day, we get hundreds of other work to do. And we want to avoid this boring work of washing dishes for as long as possible. However, with everyone's effort, we can keep practicing this good habit at home. Lastly, whoever has got a maid servant at home, with proper guidance and support, he can easily get rid of that pile of dishes from kitchen sink.
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