Anyone Can Cook

A great debate has been going on in our household as of late. The great canister debate, in fact. We managed to furnish our entire apartment with giftcards to Macy*s and Target, and we still have a copious amount of cash stored up on those giftcards. Too many gift cards, and no room to put anything.

Our tiny kitchen:

One of the items I have been considering purchasing with our leftover money (and while the crazy sales go on) are canisters. 

I was raised in the camp that says canisters are for flour, sugar and some other miscellaneous substance. Perhaps granola. They are quite useful and pretty to boot. I am also under the belief that they should be wide mouthed enough for you to fit your measuring cup into. Or a sifter into the flour.

My husband could care less about canisters.

That is, until I proposed that we buy these:

Apparently I missed the memo that he has some sort of moral opposition to polka dots. This came as quite a shock to me, who has a very strong affinity for the dot look. These come in black and red, our kitchen colors (+ Tiffany blue), are wide mouthed enough to accommodate a measuring cup and are just plain freaking adorable.

I also like these:

And they would go quite nicely in the kitchen as well. We have a collection of vintage French advertising hung on the walls and scattered about the living room/kitchen, so these would blend in nicely. He doesn’t mind these ones, but my main concern is their narrowness. The smallest one is only about 4.5-5 inches wide. That won’t do!

I kind of like these too:

But I’m afraid finding cute canisters is the least of my problems. Where do I put them in my tiny kitchen!? So, I need your help.

Do you have a favorite kind of canister? Any suggestions for ones that would work in my kitchen?

Also, where (in my kitchen) would you put them? How do you solve kitchen space dilemmas?