Kitchen!

We thought we were going to move out the
table but now we actually eat at it
every chance we get! And yes we are using
a short durable coffee table as a bench (which I am
making a cushion for)
Its nice having a clean place reserved to
sit down for lunch break...

I'm pretty happy with our current kitchen layout! When it came down to it all the tips and advice I found helped but it mainly inspired us to figure out what would work best for us.

There is really no specific home for the
highchair, but because its a table top
seat its easy to move around in a small
apartment.

The white furniture piece (which we salvaged and refinished) was actually where the grey shelves are now
but with just moving furniture around the house we
found better uses for them.

The frame that is supposed to resemble a little cottage window is a little chalkboard that my fiance and I designed. Underneath there is a shallow shelf for smaller spices so theres more room on the larger spice rack for storing baby food because the different store bought and homemade purees fit so perfectly.

A simple overview of what works for us <3

Some little tips that made things easier for us:
~ Trash Can beside the sink counterspace; another really useful place at our old place was beside the oven.
~ Catch all basket on the grey shelves: for papers that we are working on or other things that may clutter the kitchen table
~ We love having our A/C in the kitchen; the kicthen is considered the hearth/heart of the home for us the center. It keeps the kitchen the coolest room so it helps perserve foods you typically don't refridgerate but can sour in heat: bananas, chocolate, and other produce. And we have found that funny enough our fridge has kept cooler as well.
~ Shelf in corner. We have fun china and silver we haven't had the chance to use so we love displaying our pretties on tops of shelves or above the cabinetry. When our son is older to toddle into things and climb on furniture we were most defintely have to change our layout a bit ;) Having a thin piece in the corner is also convienent because it doesn't get cluttered and we are less likely to bump into them.
~ Baskets, jars, and boxes: Anything you can use to reduce clutter in the cabinets, counter space, shelves (or even the fridgerator) can often be found in things you can repurpose. We reuse ALL of our baby food jars and even the thin boxes we buy them in. The boxes are perfect for his little feeding and bottle accessories. We organize everything from jewerly to screws and bolts with jars from canned goods, and we love the useful totes and wire baskets you can find at the dollar tree!

I'm sure theres more things I could elaborate on but those are the ones that came to mind!
Let me know if your curious on other things I discovered about a busy working families kitchen ;)