By Alex Hunt

Utensil storage is something that a lot of women tend to overlook in their kitchens, but I tell you it is every bit as important as the food itself. This is due to the fact that when foods are not properly protected, the homeowners and their entire household stand the risk of infection. When you remodel your kitchen, you want to ensure that you don't forget these little details. Whether you like it or not, they are the little details that will make or break your entire effort.

Some foods you keep at the pantry, some in a walk-in storeroom, and others in the kitchen itself. Storing foods or items in this manner suggests the lack of a sense of order. This may not be your fault since your kitchen has much space to store them; however, now that you are considering remaking the kitchen, and if I were you I would truly love to redesign my kitchen so that I have space for all of these and never have to scramble about to find stuff from one place to the other. If nothing else, that alone is worth all the time and effort that you are about to put into remodeling your kitchen.

When it comes to designing your kitchen space, understand that you need a special area in your kitchen that is simply for cooking and preparing food. I like to think of them as specialized food preparation areas. In redesigning your kitchen, there has got to be some arrangements made such that those parts are clearly distinguished from every other area.