Ok, so I've been a grown-up now for a long time and had my own kitchens.  Lots of them, actually.  The first one was a tiny 30-year-old kitchen that wasn't terrible, but wasn't great.  When we moved to Memphis we lived (very briefly) in a 20ish year old townhouse with not so many cabinets, but a huge walk-in pantry, which gave us plenty of room for all the stuff and junk that ends up in the kitchen.  Then we moved to Missouri and bought our first home that had a small, but very nicely equipped and beautiful little kitchen.  See...

 

See those deep drawers on the left there and then the island had drawers and beside the fridge was another wide drawer- plenty of space for stuff.

And THEN we moved and bought another house.  My cabinets were not as high quality, but I still had plenty of storage space.

And, yeah, I even hung the same wallpaper.

 

THEN we moved AGAIN and into another 20-something year old townhouse in Ohio with another small kitchen that managed to be functional because of a pantry and quite alot of drawers.

And then guess what we did???  Yep, we moved again.  Into a house with a pretty big kitchen- not so high quality cabinetry and only THREE drawers in the whole thing.  It drove me a little crazy.  I used baskets for things I would normally have in drawers and our "junk drawer" was actually just a moving box that we never unpacked and stuck in a cabinet.  We had to dig through it when we wanted something out of it.  I guess I got used to my lack of drawer space because when we moved AGAIN (here), I immediately took the kitchen apart to refinish the cabinets and I took all the drawers to the basement for the project.

 

That was nine months ago.  Nine months without a drawer in the kitchen.  Nine months of my silverware organizer living on top of the microwave.  Nine months of stacking dishrags and towels on a shelf in the cabinet (the cabinet with no door since those were in the basement with the drawers).

 

Yesterday I finally finished re-staining the cabinets and today I started putting the kitchen back together.  I didn't even know how much I missed my drawers.  This kitchen is very small and ugly as sin (even with the refinished cabinets), but I now have seven drawers.  Seven drawers that I haven't had in NINE months.  Imagine taking everything out of every drawer you have in your kitchen and finding something else to do with it all.  For nine months I have bitched and complained about how much I hate this rental house and looked at my stripped bare cabinet frames in the kitchen- what a dummy I am!  It's still going to be FAR from my dream kitchen or even a kitchen I like to use a little bit- but I can tell you already that these drawers are going to go a long way toward making me less miserable about our current home!  I was nearly giddy taking things off the cabinet shelves and putting them in drawers- foil, Saran wrap, sandwich bags, phone books, batteries, pens, pencils, dishrags and towels, notepads, measuring cups... I could go on and on.

 

Now run into your kitchen and thank your drawers for all they do.  You'd be lost without them!