College Apartment Kitchen Ideas 

My daughter and her friends moved into their first college apartment last week. I was overjoyed to help them with some college apartment kitchen ideas. We worked to set up and organize their pantry and their refrigerator. We also styled a bar cart as an adorable coffee bar.

You can find all of the details, cool things for a college apartment, and the steps we took to organize their college apartment kitchen.

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College Apartment Kitchen Ideas

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COLLEGE APARTMENT KITCHEN IDEAS TO ORGANIZE YOUR REFRIGERATOR

A shared refrigerator can turn into a big jumbled mess pretty quickly, so we worked to give each girl a spot to store their food. We started with 4 – 8″ Fridge Binz Caddies from Zulily – one for each girl. I made labels for each bin with their names. It is nice for each person to have their own space in the refrigerator in a shared college apartment kitchen.

Their refrigerator is organized and super functional thanks to these bins from Zulily. They have now spent 8 months in their apartment and my daughter told me they LOVE the bins and do use them to keep their food separated.

They decided they wanted to organize the pantry by category. We used food storage bins from Zulily. I made labels for categories like pasta, breakfast, baking, and snacks.

We had an extra bin and decided to use it for cleaning supplies under the sink. Creating a spot for dishwashing and other cleaning supplies is a necessity in any apartment kitchen.

College apartments often have very little counter space. A bar cart is the perfect solution. It can be added to the living area of the apartment and set up as a coffee bar.

We had the best time styling the cart with their coffee maker, syrups, Perrier, and some mugs.

By the end of the day four college students with the help of their parents had moved into the apartment. They are all set to go for the year with these college apartment kitchen ideas and items from Zulily. I found the cute mug rack on Amazon and the white mugs at Target.