Corner Cabinets/Dead Corners - What Did U Do?
MichelleDT
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Dead corners-accessing space from another room
Comments (17)My parent's house had an amazing amount of wasted space in the laundry room where laundry, bath, and hall cabinets had been sheetrocked in. They all backed onto a dead space that was about 3x3. (not counting the cabinets). The bath had about 6 feet of cabinetry. We removed the laundry cabinet and the partition it was in, took out the hall cabinet entirely, and removed the box part of the bath cabinets, leaving their doors and facings so they opened directly into the laundry room. Then we sheetrocked over most of the bath/laundry wall, and installed extremely shallow shelving on the bath side, between the studs and behind the original doors. Just big enough for a 4 or 6-pack of toilet paper, or shampoo stocks. One bath cabinet remained open to the laundry, with its shelves in the laundry. Towels for that bath went straight to the shelves. :) Then we rigged a sliding "barn door" (this was late 1960s, before barn doors were trendy) for better access, and put adjustable shelving all around the new U-shaped pantry space. It turned into a 4x6 pantry area and was far more useful....See MoreWhat kind of corner cabinet - Blind corner/lazy susan/other
Comments (14)My lazy susan in my old kitchen was the most functional cabinet in the entire kitchen. Yes, lazy susan, it had a center pole. Like Marcolo's, it had the door attached to the shelves so it rotated inside the cabinet. No doors hitting cabinets on the side or to get in the way of accessing the items stored there. Nothing could fall off of it b/c the walls of the cabinet followed the contour of the shelves so closely that about all that would fit b/w them was air. 13 years old and it still rotated smoothly and was so easy to use! With a Blind Corner Unit, if something falls off a shelf, you cannot close it until someone crawls into the back to retrieve it. When I briefly toyed with one b/c it looked "cool", my KD strongly discouraged it b/c of the complaints she's had from clients who insisted on one and now regret it. So, what did I store in my lazy susan in my old kitchen? All my pots & pans (and I had more then than I do now), colanders, pie tins, cake pans, and various serving dishes/items. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures...I didn't realize how useful pics like that would be at the time and so only took very general "before" pictures. With my new kitchen, I was really looking forward to having one to hold all my small appliances, but instead I ended up w/a Pet Center cabinet that was turned 90o and faced outward (at my DH's request). I now store most of my small appliances in my pantry and still miss the Super Susan I almost had! Kodak1...I suggest you post a floor plan b/c it might help us to see what your options are in the various corners...including answering your question about your range location. Some options: Corner Susan, cabinet turned 90o to face the other side (assuming an open side), corner prep sink (or main sink), etc. Good luck!...See More"Blind" corner in upper wall cabinet - what do you keep in it??
Comments (7)In the last kitchen that I had a blind corner upper, that's where the giveaway vases went. I tend to buy them at thrift stores and garage sales, and when I have an event that dictates that I cut flowers for it, I grabbed one out of there to give to the recipient and no one ever needed to worry about returning it to me. My laundry room cabinet serves that purpose now that the blind corner is gone....See Moreloves2cook4six, ? about your Hafele Magic Corner II
Comments (6)Yes, it does, loves2cook4six, thank you! I just finished chatting with an operator at kitchensource at the suggestion of sjhockeyfan but she wasn't able to provide any info beyond the Hafele specs for the unit. If I understand you correctly, you can only store short items on the bottom shelf of the first unit but you can store taller items on the top shelf of the 1st and 2nd units. Would I be able to store something that is 14" tall on the top shelf? Oh, wait, it sounds like I can store items as tall as 11" on the bottom shelf of the 2nd unit, it's only the 2nd shelf of the 1st unit that is quite height challenged. Is that correct? My goal is to store my KA stand mixer, bread machine, juicer, and 2 slow cookers on the shelves. I know I can store them on 2 ROTs in a 19.5" wide cab but if I can get them and more on a Hafele Magic Corner II in a slightly wider cab, it would be worth the $$ to me. Thank you, thank you!!...See MoreJumpilotmdm
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