Congratulations on getting the heart of your home in order.  The kitchen is a lousy place for clutter. 

Martha’s co. does make decent products, but a recent purchase made me wonder something.  We bought 4 gallons of Martha Stewart paint.  It was hideously expensive.  (50% off sale was the only reason we bought it..) What I was wondering is, why brand paint?  Can you really copyright a shade of green?  Seems like they’re selling a name, rather than a product.  Although, I suppose that’s not all that uncommon.

The shelves look cool, though.  I’ve used similar ones in my home for years.  Quick to set up and perfectly functional. 

Kudos.
-D.

Thanks, Dave. I love having an orderly and convenient kitchen!

Maybe Martha’s colors are copyrighted. I do like many of her paint colors, but I don’t like the price, either. So.....

If you find a color you like, take the paint chip card, cut out the paint chip color you want and go to one of your hardware/paint stores that has that magical little machine that analyzes paint chips for color components. They’ll mix the color for you in any brand of paint they have on hand. I usually do the premium brand at True Value or something like that for indoor paint. I think most Benjamin Moore stores have one of those machines, too. Works for oil-based paint as well as latex.

I suppose that’s not very fair, but it has saved me a bundle. The guys doing the paint color analysis have never asked me where I got the paint chip. ;)

I feel for ya!
I moved from an apartment twice the size as the one I’m in now.  It had a HUGE attic (the entire building sized).  And it was known in the neighborhood for its gargantuan closets.  (When I first moved there an old woman on the bus remarked that everyone talked about the building’s huge closets, since “the old days”.)
And when I say there were huge closets… I mean I had one closet I used for my mountain bike - with plenty of room to spare!  That was the biggest one, but most of them were more than half the size of that one.  There were 5 closets altogether in a one-bedroom apartment. 
And my apartment looked VERY SPARSE.  Even when it was a mess.

So less space does not equal less clutter of course!

As for furniture… I really don’t have much in the ways of living room furniture… but that’s good, because my living room is packed as it is.
I haven’t bothered to bring a coffee table in here, because I like having wide open floor space… and there’s not much as it is. 
Now I realize why my friend who lived here before me - he made this long narrow coffee table when he lived here… It was really his only option, a narrow one, because he had a bigger sofa.
Plus, the heating baseboard is on the only wall that the sofa could fit right on, and so in the winter, the sofa has to be pulled out over a foot from the wall, or the sofa would just be heating up, not the room.

But I totally know what you mean about end tables with doors or drawers.  If I were to have a coffee table or end tables or whatnot - they’d definitley have storage space in them.  Anything else is nuts.  Unless of course you have tons of space for other furniture or tons of closets.

Bravo!  I dislike clutter and inconvenience in a big way and our little house never seems to have enough storage for the stuff that four people accumulate.  I have a standing rule that any furniture that enters my front door has to be able to store something.  It sometimes a challenge but we are doing a pretty good job in making everything meet that need.

So...what store do you go into to buy MS stuff?  I’ve seen the paint at KMart, but never rolling shelves.  I’m impressed!

Still cleaning and pitching. And making slow and steady progress. Being organized is not a native state for me. So, it’s going to be a long-term project. But the nice thing is...as more gets organized, the more I like it...which is great incentive to carry on to the next organizational project. I should have enough projects left to carry me into the next decade, I figure.

But I WISH I had a closet large enough, downstairs, to actually hold coats, jackets, and boots as well as the vacuum cleaner and other cleaning supplies. One lousy closet downstairs and I don’t think there is a way to organize the space efficiently enough to do it all.

Nevertheless, to borrow a motto...Excelsior! Sort of.