Packing and Moving a Kitchen – All Tips in One List

By Pamela Smith

When moving to another house or apartment one of the most boring things to do is packing. In this respect an important room to observe additionally is the kitchen – it contains a lot of small and fragile items that you need to take with you to your new place. All the pans, pots, cutlery, utensils, dishes, appliances, chairs, table etc. have to to be carefully dealt with when packing a kitchen. This makes moving a kitchen more time consuming compared to the other rooms in your house so the kitchen may require your special attention.

What can you do and where can you start packing a kitchen? Here below follows an easy to use checklist. It will give you some tips and guidelines on packing and moving a kitchen. Examining this guide will provide you with easy to follow peaces of advice. We have summed up for you the most important precise tips on this topic starting with what materials you will need to provide yourself with to how proceed exactly during the packing process.

Packing a kitchen

Moving to a new home is a good opportunity to dispose of old, worn out or unwanted items. Once you leave behind everything you don’t need, check what not to pack when moving. After this you are ready to start preparing your kitchen to be moved. First of all in order to pack and relocate your kitchen you need to decide in advance on the things you may need to supply yourself with:

Bubble wrap – to pack the fragile items

Moving blankets

Towels – for packing appliances

Small and medium-sized moving boxes

Packing paper or alternatively, old newspapers

Dark-coloured markers to label your kitchen boxes

Packing tape

If you want to have a list of all the packing supplies you’ll need for your home when moving read more here.

Packing the large items in your kitchen

The kitchen table

Use bubble wrap for the kitchen table as this is one of the heavy items to move. If the kitchen table is dismountable taking it apart in pieces will make moving a kitchen easier for you. This is probably the biggest object in the room so once you start packing your kitchen with it after it you will have more space when you start putting in boxes the smaller items from the cupboards and the appliances. This is one of the ways in which you can make your packing and moving even more efficient.

Packing a kitchen – the chairs

Use bubble wrap again. As the legs are easy to break you should take special care of them while relocating your kitchen.

Carefully dissemble and wrap the kitchen appliances in order to preserve them from damage while moving your kitchen.

Moving the appliances

Turn the power off of all of them. Dissemble the mounted items as stated in the user manuals and put them back to their original boxes. This will preserve the entirety of the appliances when moving a kitchen. If you don’t keep the original boxes, use the once that you have supplied yourself with specifically for the relocation of your kitchen. Empty the fridge of all the food inside and clean all the ice. Tape the doors well and wrap the fridge with the blankets to prevent scratches or other damages while moving a kitchen. You can use towels to secure the safe transportation of the smaller appliances. In addition, you may also wish to read more on how to pack and move electronics. These precautions will ensure that all electronics is going to be transferred safely when moving a kitchen. For the heavy items, we recommend contacting professional moving companies and movers with experience.

Packing small items in your kitchen

Preparing the boxes

Start by taping the boxes outside to strengthen them. Remember you are going to be putting some heavy items inside like pots, pans and dishes so you need to make sure that your utensils are going to be safe when you start moving your kitchen.

Start with heavy items

Place heaviest items at the bottom. Packing pots and pans should be your initial step. Put the biggest one in first. Pack them together with their lids to avoid losing time finding each match of each pot once you have moved to your new kitchen and you start unloading. Tape the paper to the item that is wrapped with it. This is the optimum way to wrap heavy stuff once you start packing a kitchen.

Take special care of breakable objects

All breakable items in your kitchen will be safe during moving if you wrap them well.

Put the breakable items like cups and dishes at the top in the boxes to prevent them from being smashed. When packing you kitchen, wrap separately each cup and dish with packing paper or old newspapers. Again, tape the paper to the items you are wrapping. After this fill in the empty space left inside the boxes with crumpled paper – this will cushion all breakable items while they are being carried. Another option when packing your kitchen is to put bubble wrap inside the corners of the boxes for the same purpose.

Describe the content of your boxes

When moving a kitchen, mark each box with a dark-coloured marker. Write what it contains on the top of the box and on the sides. In this way once you have packed and moved your kitchen you will easily recognize what the content of each box is. Put a “NB” mark on each box that has breakable items like coffee cups and glass plates. This sign will show you that you have to be careful while moving the box that has it on and will remind you to be careful when moving a kitchen.

Special and/ or expensive items

If you have in your kitchen valuable items you are going to move like expensive art – pictures, paintings, small statuettes or other, you need to pay special attention to them. After you have packed the rest of your kitchen, put around each of these objects very carefully bubble wrap. You may decide to inform yourself on the common moving insurance options as well. Do not hesitate to take special precautions for your valuables once you start packing a kitchen.