I did it in a former life and am seriously thinking of adding the susan to my corner cabinets now. And I might move my pots and pans there, too. I wonder if I'll ever get stuff organized to suit me.

We didn't put drawers in our kitchen like most people on here. we like the ROTs, I know they're not for everyone and they're not really the populer thing to do around here, but oh well.
The lazy susan is the perfect place for us to store these things.

I really love the 2 UPPER & lower Lazy Susans in this 1949 space-saving kitchen video. I would never have thought to put them on top but it makes perfect sense here. Link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://retrorenovation.com/2010/11/04/how-to-design-a-mid-century-kitchen-instructions-straight-from-1949/

melaska, I know, right?!?! I saw that video and I LOVE the idea of the upper lazy susan going down to the couner for dish storage. I REALLY wish I saw this video before the renovation as I might've serisouly considered that.
I do have an upper lazy susan for all my baking stuff. That's working out really well for me too.

I saw that video -- her upper lazy susan looked fantastic. I have an upper lazy susan that is absolutely horrible. flimsy thing. pia. I took out one of the circles and it is SLIGHTLY more helpful now than it had been.

I've poured over specs of cabinet makers in my kitchen obsession, and I haven't seen anything that resembled the 1949 footage. (although I probably haven't looked too closely at the upper susans cuz I hate mine so much)

craftlady...bummer...I don't have any real corner in my kitchen. It's an L-shape but the corner of the L is diagonal for about 4 feet. We're building this Spring...I wonder if you can have a Lazy Susan without a corner? :) The design we have now is pretty tight so I don't know how it would work.

In order to put in a peninsula to get more counter space in our small u-shape we had to move the refrigerator down the right side of the U slightly and thus eliminated the only real spot that we had to put in drawers for the pots and pans. We had a blind corner on the right so we put in a lazy susan and the pots and pans go in there. Not as convenient as the base cab with the 4 ROTS that we had previously but not bad. For the couple of times a day (at most) that we need to go in there it works out.

We put a lazy Susan in my son's remodeled kitchen, and he was amazed at how many of his large pans fit in it--he loves it! I have a couple of crock pots, my food processor storage container of blades, and quite a few large pans--stir fry, dutch oven, stock pots, etc.--in ours. Wouldn't be without it!

Anne

In our old kitchen, we stored all our pots & pans, colanders, and various serving pieces in our 36" corner lazy susan (the one with the center pole). It was very efficient storage in that we were able to rotate the susan and bring whatever we needed to the front where it was easy to get to (or to put away).

Corner susans hold a lot of stuff!

I have 2 of those and almost never use them. I am worried about them not holding up to the weight of the pots and pans. Do they hold up well? If they do I will start using them; it would definitely make it easier to find the pot I need without having to dig through other pots in front of and inside them.

When we demolished our old kitchen, the corner susan was the only cabinet that was in as good a shape and worked as well as the day we moved in almost 13 years before. It still rotated smoothly and both shelves were level. We had inexpensive builder-grade cabinets (Aristokraft) w/pretty cheap hardware (we had replace the door hinges on two cabinets over those 13 years.)

You shouldn't have any problems with your corner susan. Some people here store their small appliances in their susans. If you have two corner susans, you might consider using one for pots & pans and the other for small appliances.

When we redid our kitchen, I was torn about whether to put a lazy susan in the corner. I'm so glad I did. That is where I also keep all my pots and pans. I wasn't sure I was going to like it, but I works out really well. I remember growing up my mom had a blind corner cabinet that had all our pots and pans and it was quite inconvenient. That is why I wasn't sure about a corner cabinet for pots and pans. Obviously whoever built their house did not have access to that 1949 film about the most functional kitchen layout!

the LS I have has the center pole in it and so far it seems very surdy. I have my P&Ps sort of spread out around the trays so hopefully the weight is evenly distributed. It glides smoothly and really makes accessing the stacked pots and pans really easy.

The kitchen I thought I wanted was one without any corner cabinets. The corner cabinet in our old kitchen was such a dark hole I was scared to try anything else. My kd convinced me otherwise and we ended up with 2 super susans (the kind where the turntable sits on a shelf rather than having a center pole.)

I love them. We don't store pots and pans on them but we do store a lot of the stuff that I had really not planned spots for. It's one of the few places in the kitchen where I feel like I can fit oversized items.

I'm constantly looking for ways to tweak the organization of our kitchen. Someone here posted a photo a year or 2 ago of the way s/he used all the space in the super susan. I now take advantage of the space between the shelf and susan turntable by slipping extra toaster oven pans and an extra glass mw turntable in the gap. I store extra cutting boards on end along the sides of the cabinet and I store large bottles of beverages in the bigger gaps in the corners.

Whoever posted those ideas, thank you!

craftlady--I'm with you about roll outs. It's too bad the pro-drawer, anti-roll out contingent is so vocal. I think it scares a lot of people away from something that might be perfect for their kitchen. It's unfortunate that most times people mention they have roll outs on this forum they feel like they have to qualify it and defend it. We have 2 large pots and pans drawers. I wish I had put in roll out shelves instead. I love the drawer with the pots and pans but I don't love the lower drawer that holds all of my heavy cast iron frying pans. There is a lot of weight in the drawer and a lot of wasted vertical space above the pans. I wish I could replace it with 2 roll outs so that I could distribute the weight--and only have to pull out half our frying pans at a time. I would exchange the "inconvenience" of going through the 2 motions of opening the door and then pulling out the shelf to get at a frying for the flexibility I would gain in the ability to reconfigure the cabinet as often as I wish over the next 25 years. Plus, with the roll outs that we do have, I find I organize them so that the most used stuff is in front. Most of the time I just have to open the door and grab and not pull any shelves out. I'm not a fan of heavy drawers. I don't like feeling the drag on the slides every time I open a heavy drawer (and yes, I have quality glides.)

We have a super susan in the new kitchen (the one like zelmar describes) and I absolutely love it. It's where I store all the small appliances and toaster.

I thought I'd include a picture of the LS now that I finally found my camera cord :)