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Article snippet: With the school year in full swing and holidays quickly approaching, it’s time to organize your kitchen. No more fumbling for the spices behind the tortilla chips or bumping into your partner while trying to get breakfast for the family on the table. To get started, here are some tricks professional organizers use to keep their own kitchens clutter-free. GET IN THE ZONE After cooking in dozens of Manhattan apartments, Faith Roberson, a personal chef turned professional organizer, realized the best way to limit the amount of time she spent trying to find things was to create kitchen zones by task. “Every kitchen that I worked in varied in size and utility,” said Ms. Roberson, whose company is called Organize with Faith. “I found that even if the person that came in after me didn’t put an item back where they found it, I could easily find it somewhere in that zone.” Cooking tools and condiments — pots, utensils, spices, oils, cutting boards, knives — live near the stove, or cooking zone. Colanders, salad spinners and plastic containers are stored in lower cabinets around the sink, or washing zone. Plates, bowls, cups and glasses are arranged according to size in the upper cabinets, also near the sink. Similarly, she continued, “All of your food doesn’t have to go together — it can be separated and stored near its appropriate zone,” making it possible for multiple people to be in the kitchen without getting in the way of one another. “I had a client who loved making... Link to the full article to read more