Crafty Over the Door Hanging Organizers to Maximize your Kitchen Space

An organized home is essential. It helps you control your stuff and doesn't allow your things to control you. However, you must be creative in smaller houses or apartments when organizing to maximize your spaces. I suggest that my clients use the backs of wooden entry doors to hang and store small items. It gives the homeowner additional space to store my smaller items so as to support those with smaller homes. In this post, I will share over-the-door (Affiliate Link) organizers for your kitchen space. You can easily add these items to the entryway door to your kitchen, your pantry (Affiliate Link) door, or even doors near your smaller kitchen.

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• Spices or cans are in my kitchen pantry or kitchen cabinet.
• Cork boards and Whiteboards to write notes as reminders.
• Wrapping Paper Station
• Hats and Bags
• Shoe Storage
• Cookbooks and CDs storage
• Pet Storage Stuff

Spices or cans are in my kitchen pantry or kitchen cabinet.

Attaching items inside the door works nicely for lightweight items like spices (Affiliate Link). Magnet strips can hold loose tea and spices (Affiliate Link) in little stainless steel containers with screwtop lids.

Over The Door Organizer, for spices and herbs containers

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Over the Door Pantry Spice Rack Organizer -6 Tier -Holds up to 54 Spices

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Cork boards and Whiteboards to write notes as reminders.

If you have a flat door in your kitchen, you can easily add cork squares(affiliate) with double-stick tape (usually comes with it) and hang them from the inside of the door to hold important papers. You can also use a whiteboard wallpaper with dry-erase markers(affiliate) to give you a surface to write notes or create a to-do list or grocery list. Add at least ½ inch around the door's perimeter to ensure it closes properly. 

Wrapping Paper Station

Years ago, and I still use it today, my wrapping paper station saved so much space when organizing my home. I created this station by modifying something I saw (Affiliate Link) online to keep everything organized all year long and be able to grab things and birthday cards quickly. The image below is what I created at home to store my wrapping paper. Feel free to visit this Wrapping Paper Station post.

Hats and Bags

Hats (Affiliate Link) and bags in hallway closets for a quick place to put your bags and hats (Affiliate Link). Larger 3M Command hooks (Affiliate Link) work best for closets. Ensure you purchase sturdy hooks that can hold over 25 lbs to ensure they don't break off. If you are worried about the weight, purchase hooks that screw into wood doors. There are hat-over-the-door organizers on Amazon.

If you have grocery bags that you want to hang over the door, you can buy an over the door organizer that holds just bags.

Over-The-Door Handbag and Purse Organizer for 18 Handbags or Purses. Black.

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Shoe Storage

Shoes (Affiliate Link) are stored in a hallway closet or bedroom closet. There are many over-the-door (Affiliate Link) organizers that can hold a lot more than shoes (Affiliate Link). There are ones that can hold purses and bottles, too. Check out these that I found on Amazon (Affiliate Link) (affiliate).

Shoe Organizer 36 Pair Over the Door White by Whitmor

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Shoe Organizer, Hanging Shoe Organizers with Large Pocket Shoe Holder Hanging Shoe Rack 15 Grey

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Cookbooks and CDs storage

If you need a lot of extra storage, consider buying wider over-the-door (Affiliate Link) organizers to help store these heavier items. Books can be particularly heavy, so getting an actual over-the-door (Affiliate Link) organizer would be better than screwing holes into the door. No one wants to replace a door because it has holes in it. But, if you have magazines or smaller cookbooks that are light and you want to store them, you can store them on a deep shelf over the door organizer. Pick one with a metal frame but with narrow gaps for the books.

Pet Storage Stuff

Pet items may include leashes, food, and snacks. These items can easily be stored in an over-the-door (Affiliate Link) organizer.

Dog Supplies & Accessories Over-the-Door Storage Organizer

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I personally, like the over-the-door organizers, hooks that attach to the top and bottom of the door like in the wrapping paper station above (found at The Container Store) instead of making holes in the door. However, if you want to hang items directly on the door, I recommend large 3M Command Strips hooks (as mentioned above). They peel off nicely and you can find various sizes and styles.

Using over-the-door hanging organizers (Affiliate Link) will organize your home and apartment and free up space on the floor in your rooms. Plus, it will keep your smaller items more organized.  I hope I have shown you creative ways to use over-the-door hanging organizers (Affiliate Link).

What do you use for your small space?  Do you use over the door hanging organizers (Affiliate Link)?  I would love to hear from you.

If you need help planning your space, contact me via my virtual organizing services.

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