How to Organize a Coffee Cabinet

INSIDE : LEARN HOW TO ORGANIZE A COFFEE CABINET SO MORNINGS ARE LESS CHAOTIC AND MORE PRODUCTIVE.

Coffee central. The gateway to the morning. The keeper of dreams. The place that no mother, father, or coffee lover can be without! Now if I could just find what I want……….

Yesterday was part of my New Year reset and it felt so good to look in the cup cabinet to see exactly what I needed!!! Nothing was going to fall on my head when I reached for it. It feels really great to see progress. So today I tackle how to organize a coffee cabinet!

Current State:

Ummmmm……..I don’t even know what to say here…we drink a lot of coffee and tea…how does anyone find what they need?!?! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Usually, we push things around to find what we are looking for and it just makes a bigger mess. This MUST stop!

Always start here:

1 – Take everything out of the cabinet and PURGE!

I found expired tea, protein powder, and trail mix in there…why? Why would trail mix be in there? Probably explains why it wasn’t eaten.

There was an abundance of coffee cups. I couldn’t decide which ones I wanted to get rid of so I kept them all for now. But I have a feeling I will change my mind soon………..stay tuned for updates.

2 – Clean the shelves

Wiping everything down with Mrs. Meyers made me realize, yet again, that cleaning cabinet shelves needs to be done more than once every 5 years…

3 – Organize – keep like things together

While everything was still out on the counter, I gathered all like things together. Coffee and coffee creamer. All the tea. Cups. You get the idea.

I decided to put the some of the tea in glass jars and eliminate some of the boxes and clutter. Also, I was able to fit all of our koozies in a glass jar…avoiding drawer clutter!

***UPDATE: I found a better way to store Koozies. Remember when I said “I’m lucky enough to have a beer/soft drink fridge in my garage?” Well, I thought, why wouldn’t the koozie storage be out there too? DUH! I kept a few inside with this and the rest moved outside with this.

I decided to organize the K-cup pods with this rotating holder and display them on the counter. Mine was given to me, but this is similar.

4 – Replace your items in an orderly fashion

Keep the important things closest to you. Heavy cups need to be on the bottom shelf, not the top. Don’t drink a TON of tea? Put the tea up top.

***Update: I found a WAY better way to organize tea. The glass jars did the trick for a little while but I still had too many in the original boxes. Instead of the glass jars I used this container and what a game changer.

Do not put the things that didn’t belong in this cabinet back in there! Since this cabinet is a HUGE part of what I do every day, I found myself storing things in here that just did not make sense. Rubbing alcohol? Why would that be in this cabinet? I had to find it a new home!

Finished product:

5 – Decorations

Since my whole kitchen is themed around coffee, I decided while I was reorganizing the cabinet, I could give some love to the top too. I removed the wine carafe, washed it, and found it a new home. Gave the top a good dusting and found some ways to re-purpose old decorations. I also found this metal coffee tin online and bought it…..oops! I can’t find the same one to show you – but this is similar. This manual coffee grinder was found in an antique shop somewhere in the mountains of Georgia – but you can have your own here.