Use plastic bins or baskets to keep kitchen items. They’re also good as cleanup “cubbyholes” for some hasty kitchen tidying. Kids can also have their own cubby hole for school notices, so you won’t have a paper-covered refrigerator. You can also use bins and baskets as a pullout dish towel rack. You can store the bins in shallow drawers or into the toe-kick space between lower cabinets. Keep them beside a small folding step stool, a dustpan, and some newspaper for recycling.