Storage of spices if no pull-out/spice drawer?
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Comments (16)What if you did a blind corner pullout instead of the 15" cabinet & super susan to the right of the range? (See link below) You could have the cabinet people make the cabinet front into a faux set of drawers to visually match the drawers on the left side of the range to get your symmetry. The door would be hinged on the right and open toward the sink wall. My Mom did this in almost the exact same scenario at the corner (- the faux drawer front) & it works great. Then you could also have a bigger spice pullout next to the sink. We have a large spice pullout (15" wide & 3 tiers) & it holds our salt, pepper, cooking oil, non-stick spray, flavorings, spices, sprinkles, etc. I don't think they called it a spice pullout though--maybe an undercounter pullout pantry? Ours does have a faux front with a drawer over cabinet look to make it symmetrical with the other side of the range. I would see about changing the exterior of the spice pullout to look like a cabinet vs. a column as there is no matching column on the other side of the sink which makes it look awkward & out of place to me. Unless you're going with a large D-shaped sink, I would be tempted to eliminate the cabinet on the end of the sink run, slide the DW down to the end & enlarge the sink to a 36" base that would allow for a very nice size double sink. Overall, I really like your plan. Hope this helps! Here is a link that might be useful: Blind Corner Pullout...See MoreSpice rack/pull out in lower cabinets?
Comments (20)I'm going to link the long thread about spice storage that Sayde was talking about. We have a small kitchen. But we were determined not to commit the mistakes of our past kitchens regarding spice storage. A previous home had the little plastic stair-step shelf (from BB&B) in an upper cabinet. It was OK, but while it made the spices slightly more visible than without the stair-step, it still was jumbled and hard to fumble through. It didn't really allow you to reach quickly in and grab a spice jar while cooking. Worse though, was our pre-reno kitchen with the vertical pull-out spice rack. DH swore that no matter what, that kind of spice pull-out would not be a part of our renovated kitchen. He hated bending to see the spices, the bottles moved around and shifted too much in the pull-out, you had to move from one side around to the other to find your spice, and when the rack was pulled out it impeded traffic in the kitchen. So we looked at Loves2cook4six's solution (see linked thread, 3rd post from the top), that Sayde also mentioned, of bottles in a drawer with labels on the top of the bottles. We also thought of something similar to what Northsong mentioned above. DH nixed that, cause he felt we'd never get around to transferring the spices we buy to the other bottles. So another requirement was that spices stay in their "OEM" bottles. Then we saw Cat_mom's. Eureka! An insert from Rev-a-shelf in a shallow drawer next to the range. The insert holds the bottles at a slant, and everything is instantly visible and accessible. No bending, no squinting, no walking around, no reaching, no moving a bottle to get to another. The insert is a nice wood. And we can keep the spices in their OEM bottles. Although our kitchen is small, we were able to spare a shallow wide drawer dedicated to spices. Eliminating the vertical spice pull-out we had before meant our drawers gained a few more inches. DH comments on how much he loves the spice drawer about once a week. Cat_mom's is pictured on the linked thread about 1/4 the way down. Then Mysterymachine discussed it with Cat_mom in that thread, and installed something similar too. Hers is pictured about a little more than 1/2 way down the thread. There are plenty of other ideas. It's a really great thread. Here is a link that might be useful: Really Great Kitchens Forum Thread about Spice Storage...See Morepull out spice rack where is yours?
Comments (8)The issue w/ the spice rack is this. We have a cooktop island. Next to the island is our walkway and then our Pantry. Hard to visualize I will try to get on later w/ pictures. The walkway between the island and the pantry by Code needs to be 36". My husband thoought he could get away w/ only have 30" told the KD to do it that way even though the KD said it could be a problem. Our GC found out before the cabinets arrived and said you need to fix it because it won't pass inspector and if you decide not to fix it now and the inspector doesn't pass it after you put countertops in etc you could have a serious problem and lots of extra $$$. So we lost the 6 inch pull out spice rack next to our cooktop. WE have 15 inch drawers and a cabinet under neath w/ pull outs for pots and pans and to the right of that is the baker's rack which cannot come out. The only choice was the spice rack- 6 inches lost , equaled 6 inches gained in the walkway. So we looked all over for extra room. I thought of making the trash bin smaller but we'd have to send it back to the cabinet makers and it will take forever, I don't think we could just cut it down since it's on sliders. The only space we had was next to our upper corner cabinet and yes it's very hard to reach. Like I said not the best solution but we hated to lose to it.. Just seeing if there is any other option. We've tried looking for space everywhere. WE donÂt' have much space for fillers or anything we utilized a lot of space for drawers and cabinets. J...See MoreCup pulls or knobs for stacked 5' spice drawers
Comments (6)I went with cup pulls for two reasons: (1) I used pulls on all the other drawers in my design (2) My spice drawers do not have the soft-close feature that my larger drawers do and I found it sturdier to open/close the drawer with a pull. I have a small kitchen and use these drawers everyday because they store cooking utensils next to my range, so I wanted them to be easy to manage....See Morewarmfridge
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