When cooking long, bitty meals, I am often struck by the muse of organization. While the timer ticks down to dinner, I set to work rearranging a corner of the kitchen that just hasn’t been sitting right or smoothly in my cooking process. Most recently, as my potatoes roasted, my messy drawers took the hit. They have always been haphazard: this one for cutlery, this one for a smattering of utensils that roll back and forth every time I open and close them, this one for chopping boards and… letters apparently? Plus, birthday candles, a few random bowls, oh, and a phone charger.
What I really need is some proper guidance on how to organize kitchen drawers. In my search, I found this new IKEA VARIERA Drawer Divider, and I think it's a pretty solid solution. Simple but deceptively transformative, this slim bamboo divider slots into your drawer and, in moments, turns an amorphous storage space into a series of purposeful sections. Better still, it adjusts to fit the drawer you already have, rather than asking you to reorganize your kitchen around it.
