A Real Simple editor answered your questions about organizing kitchens.

(Simone Noronha for The Washington Post)

Erica Finamore, the Home Director for Real Simple, answered your questions on Thursday about kitchen organization. She oversees coverage of home design, cleaning, organizing, decorating, entertaining and gift-giving. Before joining Real Simple in 2021, she was the features editor at Food Network Magazine. She has written for numerous publications including HGTV Magazine, The Pioneer Woman Magazine and InStyle. Here are some of the questions she answered:

• How can I make my refrigerator and freezer more functional?
• How can we better organize corner cabinets?
• How can I keep clutter off my counter?

Every Thursday at 11 a.m. Eastern time, Jura Koncius helps you in your quest to achieve domestic bliss. She and weekly guests — whether it’s Martha Stewart, Marie Kondo, Jasmine Roth of HGTV, Paula Sutton of Hill House Vintage or TikTok’s Folding Lady, Sophie Liard — answer your decorating, decluttering, design, entertaining and home-keeping questions. For more than 20 years, our Q&A has hosted conversations about how to make your home comfortable, stylish, organized and fun.

Recent Q&As have covered whether it’s okay to replace a tub with a stand-alone shower, how to keep mice out of your house, what to do with a collection of costume jewelry and how to use the steam settings on your washer and dryer.

Read the Q&A below, or check out some of our past discussions. If you have suggestions for Q&A topics, please email me at jura.koncius@washpost.com.

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• Get a more organized kitchen in 10 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour

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Helen Carefoot, writer and editorial aide for the Lifestyle section, produced this Q&A.