Room for Improvement Down Below

Our kitchen is pretty efficient for the most part, well except that I don't really know the best way to organize it. I'm starting to figure out what really works for us and know there are a few places that could use some improvement on the bottom level.

The rough sketch above shows our kitchen's layout (the arrow is indicative of the two cabinet pieces linking together with a lazy susan inside).

Here are my plans:

1. These are 2 drawer front facades. I'd like to get the little kits that allow me to pull these out in order to store sponges, etc right below the sink.

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2. I'd love for this skinny little cabinet to have a pull-out shelving system so I can store the non-stick sprays, spices and sauces that are currently taking up precious cabinet space. I know it would be by the sink rather than the stove but spices aren't supposed to get hot anyways and its not like its a long walk for us to reach the other side.

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3. This giant cabinet holds our appliances because we would have zero counterspace to work on if we left these out all of the time. I need a more efficient way to get to them though so some pull-out heavy duty drawer inserts would be fabulous.

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4 & 5. I need drawer organizers for these drawers and some pull-out drawers for the cabinets below to store my pots & pans more efficiently.

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6. The drawer above this cabinet also needs some organization but mainly this is where my baking sheets go. I need some dividers to keep them from crashing down all of the time.

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7. Once again the drawer needs some organization but I'm kind of at a loss as to what I need to do with the cabinet below. Right now it holds all of my serving pieces and in the future I hope that I will have a storage piece in the dining room but for now everything is just slammed in there for now. Oh well!

Organization Station

I'm constantly looking for a new way to keep Tim & I on the same page as far as what we have to do each week, what dinner will be and what he needs to contribute to assist with keeping the house. I'm also crazy OCD (apparently I developed that as a coping mechanism for my ADHD, spectacular!) so I have lists EVERYWHERE. I saw the organizer below at one of the blogs I follow but genius as I am I didn't write down what blog that was, so if anyone runs across this somewhere & knows where it came from please let me know so I can give credit where its due!

There were a couple of changes I needed to make:

1. We work on a weekly basis so a monthly calendar does nothing for us.
2. Our To-Do list is always long & continually growing (we both procrastinate) so that needed to be extended. I actually separated it into 2 columns so we each have our own responsibilities.
3. I wanted that title box to be personalized for us. (OCD comes back to haunt everyone)

Here a more generic version, feel free to copy & use as it fits your life! I'll put it as large as I can on here because I have no clue how to upload a file that is able to be downloaded (although if someone shares that knowledge I'll be happy to do that as well!). You can also leave a comment with your email address and I'll shoot it over to you that way!