Having a smaller kitchen shouldn’t put the brakes on your culinary creativity, or mean you have to sacrifice owning the appliances you love to use.

We have designed plenty of products that are ideal for using and storing in areas where space is limited, like the Chefette Metal Bowl Hand Mixer, which is a hand and stand mixer combined that’s perfect for passionate cake bakers who may not have the space for one of our larger kitchen machines. Or there’s the HandMix Lite with Metal Bowl, which despite its compact size can take on pretty much any recipe, and has a bowl capacity big enough to make up to 18 cupcakes in a single load.

​​​​​​​If making soups or sauces is more your thing, our range of jug and hand blenders make light work of chopping, grating and mashing and so much more, while the sleek and stylish Blend-Xtract Sport Blender allows you to whizz up your smoothie ingredients straight into the sport bottle attachment, ready to grab and go.

All of these innovative products more than prove that when it comes to kitchen appliances, size certainly isn’t everything. But a lack of space shouldn’t necessarily put you off one of our larger stand mixers either. Our versatile Chef range of mixers is available in both standard and XL sizes, giving you the option of a smaller bowl capacity but the same design-led functionality. Your bowl tools can also be detached and hung on a rack or on the inside of cabinet doors when not in use.

And if you’re looking for a food processor that can meet all your food prep needs without taking over your worktop, the MultiPro Compact+ is our most compact 3 litre capacity model, with no sacrifice on multi-tasking functionality. While the MultiPro Express Weigh + MultiPro Excel and MultiPro Sense models come with specially designed handy storage, so all the attachments and bowl tools can be neatly stored away.

 

Shelf risers help you use every bit of available space in cupboards that are short on shelves, while pan stackers and vertical or tiered plate racks make sure everything is easily accessible, as well as preventing any non-stick cookware from getting scratched. Use wire baskets and plastic containers in bigger cupboards to create compartments and keep things neat and organised. Another way to create extra storage is to fix storage racks to the inside of cupboard doors-great for stashing away saucepan lids or chopping boards. 

In food cupboards, using a rotating turntable at the front of a cabinet for everyday essentials such as cooking oils and seasonings will help make it easier to grab what you need without having to reach over other jars and bottles. Another top tip is to label the lids of jars, so if you’re looking down  on them you can easily see the one you want-especially useful when you’re confronted with row upon row of identical spice jars!

You separate out your cutlery in drawers to make it easier to see and get what you need, so why not use the same approach with the rest of your cooking utensils and gadgets? Drawer dividers or cutlery trays will save you digging through cluttered drawers, while your most used utensils can be stored in an attractive jar on the worktop so they’re always close at hand. 

Shallow drawers are ideal for utensils, but if you only have deep pan drawers or cupboards use baskets or pull out shelves to help organise and ensure everything is easy to find. 

If your kitchen cupboards are fit to bursting, squeezing in some extra shelves somewhere is an inexpensive way to find that additional space. 

Small floating shelves for mugs, glassware and other small crockery items can be fitted in otherwise unused areas, such as on the side of a wall hung cabinet or integrated fridge/freezer, or in the space underneath a wall hung cabinet. You can even look to install a shelf above a door or window-perfect for storing decorative items like jugs and vases that aren't used everyday. 
 

The key to decluttering is to be ruthless. Empty a drawer or cupboard completely and ask yourself when you last used each item before you put it back in.

If you’re struggling to make a decision about whether to keep an item think about whether it makes your life easier-for instance a tool or appliance that speeds up a process. Also consider whether you have similar items that do the same job and that you would always reach to use first-how many garlic presses do you realistically need? Finally, do you love it? If it’s a decorative item that you wouldn’t buy today and it has no sentimental value, it would probably bring more joy to someone else. This isn’t about throwing functioning things away-offer your unwanted items to friends and family, donate to a charity shop or sell online. 

Similarly, do a stock take of your food cupboards and cleaning products. Throw away items that are past their use by date, and if you have multiple open bottles or jars of the same thing place the emptiest one at the front of a cupboard so you use it up first.

Finally, most of us have a dreaded junk drawer somewhere, where anything that doesn’t have an obvious place to live gets put- chargers, random batteries, sellotape, allen keys, torches, tea lights, string-the list goes on. Go through it and get rid of anything that’s not fit for purpose.

Once you’ve taken stock you’ll have a clearer idea of what storage you actually have available to you-you'll be surprised how much space you can free up after a good clear out.
 

If storage space is at a premium, go high. Using wooden pegs or metal hanging racks to hang pans, chopping boards or utensils on a wall is a practical, not to mention stylish, way to free up space in your drawers and cabinets and on worktops, and ensure everything you need is within easy reach. 

Having a magnetic knife rack above your food preparation area rather than a knife block saves precious worktop space and is much more convenient (and safer) than having knives stored loose in a drawer. You can also add hooks to the underside of wall cabinets or shelves to hang mugs. 
 

Bulk buy dry goods, baking ingredients, herbs and seasonings and decant them into glass storage jars and canisters. Not only will they look stylish enough to have on display, clear containers make it really easy to see where everything is, and check which supplies are running low before you do the weekly shop. Use chalkboard labels or invest in your own embossing label maker for some retro chic. 
 

With a wealth of recipes, video tutorials and apps available online to inspire your next cook off or show-stopping bake, now might be the time to consider whether you need dozens of recipe books on your kitchen shelves, some of which you may only dip into for one or two tried and tested favourites. 

There are some great online recipe organisers available which allow you to import digital recipes and synch them across all your devices, as well as add recipes manually and scan PDFs or photos of cook book recipes. No more marked up pages, dog-eared recipe cards or sauce-splatted recipes torn from magazines-just everything organised and at your fingertips. Some of these organising tools also allow you to create shopping lists and meal planners, share your own recipes with other users and even search for recipes based on your leftover ingredients. 

In need of some new foodie inspiration? Our Kenwood World app gives you free access to over 1000 step-by-step cooking and baking recipes. You can search and filter by product, food type, meal, occasion, preparation and cooking time, dietary requirement or how easy it is to make. Once you find something you love you can save it as one of your favourites for next time, and you can even send recipe commands direct to your connected appliance, leaving you more time to get creative in the kitchen.