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1. Use a low-key constant odor neutralizer 24/7 in both your kitchen AND adjacent areas. Plus, close the doors to other rooms to avoid stinking up the whole joint.
2. Be prepared for a smoke alarm to go off because it will happen. Crack a window -- but keep out the bugs -- with an adjustable window screen.
3. Safely work the oven with these oven-rack guards -- despite the weird yoga required of you to actually put something in there.
4. Swap out space-hogging appliances you can't live without for smaller versions, like this mini George Foreman grill that stores upright in a teensy bit of space.
5. And if you must seek out countertop appliances, choose tall ones you'll use often, like this compact food steamer.
6. But make room for multi-tasking appliances like the Instant Pot, a Pinterest-famous programmable pressure cooker with 18K+ Amazon reviews.
7. Put your Kitchenaid mixer fund toward a budget-friendly immersion blender set that's easy to clean and store.
8. Arrange spice bottles on the inside of a cabinet beside your stovetop for easy access with these cheap-but-handy clips.
9. Peel and stick on this magnetic knife rack to put your sharpest tools within reach of y-o-u (not kids!)—it'll also free up drawer space for other things.
10. Make use of the underside of your cabinets with a wine rack so you have more room to work your culinary magic.
11. And put your current drink on your kitchen backsplash instead of your countertop with this suction-cup drink caddy that you can use in the shower, too.
12. Get some kitchen essentials that can do both, like this over-the-sink cutting board that's also a colander.
13. Clean as you go (it truly helps!), and make a roll-up dish-drying rack your new personal assistant.
14. Or, make every vertical inch count with this two-tier drying rack befitting a family.
15. Eke out some more food prep room with this tempered-glass counter that you can set over some (cool) burners or a sink.
16. Expand the range of your, well, range, with this portable induction cooktop.
17. Kick the garbage bowl habit -- sorry, Rachael Ray -- and toss your in-progress trash below the counter thanks to a kitchen-cabinet trash clip.
18. Mount a paper towel holder underneath your cabinet so you won't risk knocking a roll over and causing spills on the countertop.
19. Let a hand-powered chopper the size of a small bowl stand in for your food processing needs, (unless you need a food processor for like, feeding an army).
20. Let everything reach room temp with this three-tier cooling rack that has plenty of room to allow for air flow.
21. Invest in a set of nesting mixing bowls that are, wait for it....taller than they are wide, so they're big enough for mixing but take up a wee bit of countertop space.
22. Rely on a rolling, collapsible kitchen cart in desperate times that you can store away when you don't need it.
23. And a baby gate to keep teetering tots and curious pets out from underneath your feet while you get to work.
Now you're ready to work it like Julia, except in a tenth of the space.
