So I’m sure all of you have figured out a fix for this long ago…toast crumbs on the kitchen counter, toaster in the way of making dinner, toaster inaccessible during the morning rush. That’s been my kitchen…for a long time. But now, as part of my mini kitchen improvement, I decided to fix it. And it was actually easy.
Who knew? A tray, a jar, move the bread, done.
And now we have this cute little toast-making station that’s away from the rest of the kitchen busy-ness. It stays in the same place. All The Time. It’s easy to keep clean. Did I mention it was cute? Well, I helped it out a little bit with the cuteness because I saw this adorable sign on Pinterest. I don’t really do signs, but I do chalkboards and I just copied the idea.
I’m loving me a little upcycled distressed frame chalkboard. They really work for me…when I’m feeling creative it’s a blank slate. When I make a mistake, I can erase it and start over. When I’m fickle and change my mind, guess what? Erase it and start over.
But back to the toaster. So I had rediscovered this vintage silver tray. (A lot of stuff has seen the light of day since we’ve been renovating the basement, by the way.) And I love it and have used it in a few places, but now it’s found it’s home. Set it on the sideboard and moved the toaster there. Already brilliant.
Set out the butter in a butter dish and moved the butter knives there too. There’s a key concept of organizing right? Putting stuff together that gets used together.
Then remember that I had bought a set of three nesting seagrass baskets? The first one was used for the coffee station? Well here’s the largest of the three holding the bread right underneath the toaster tray. I made the same kind of fake, I mean faux, chalkboard tag with black cardstock, white paint marker and twine. In case anyone couldn’t figure out it was bread in there.
Now the bread, toaster, butter and knives all live together. The cream cheese and the peanut butter and jam live right next door in the fridge. I have had requests for the Nutella to live on the tray as well. Hmmm, well, maybe. If they would just package it in a prettier jar.
So if your toaster situation is causing you stress, this is something you can do. Any style tray that’s large enough to hold your toaster plus your extra toasting stuff would be fabulous. It has made the kitchen ridiculously more efficient, and so much easier to keep tidy. Well worth your time, I promise you.
Can you name this movie?