Whether it’s under the guise of spring cleaning, or simply a new-year-new-you approach to minimalism, a good deep purge doesn’t always have to be a chore. Enter, A Good Home, a Shoreline Connecticut-based soup-to-nuts home organization company (doing everything from decluttering, to organizing, to creating stylized-but-functional spaces), founded by Chelsea Wade.

Kitchens are where form and function collide—

—and since it’s one of the places we spend the most time in our everyday lives, it’s important to find the perfect balance between the two. In our eyes, a well-organized kitchen is a beautiful kitchen. As the heart of the home, an organized kitchen can make or break the experience of cooking and eating and doing homework and paying bills and all the other things that go down on the bar stools. There is a lot that happens in the kitchen, and let’s face it, it’s easy to get unorganized quickly without the right tools and systems in place. And with them, it’s key to maintain.

As we enter into the season for entertaining, baking treats, and spending more and more time in our kitchens, we’re thinking about how to give them an organized refresh and hitting “reset” in the room we all tend to gather in. Here are a few of our favorite kitchen organization tips, plus we share some of the best organizational practices and essentials for creating a kitchen space that’s just as beautiful as it is functional.