"...corner susans...don't quite look like the rest of the kitchen..." Huh???? They looked just fine in our old kitchen w/partial overlay doors. Our lazy susan was the only thing in our kitchen that looked and performed as well at demo as it did at installation 13 years earlier. I wholeheartedly recommend corner susans. As to stuff falling off, if your cabinets are made so the back and side walls closely follow the contour of the round shelves, there are no problems. However, I don't know if all cabinetmakers, especially small custom shops, are able to (or willing to) make them that way. We had that kind (curved walls) in our old kitchen w/builder-grade cabinets...and that susan was great! It held all our pots & pans, colanders, cake & pie tins, and various serving pieces. Everything was in front...you simply rotated the susan, the doors rotated inside, and you stopped where the item you wanted was...and it was right in front of you...no digging around for things. Nothing ever fell off. The hardware worked smoothly the entire 13 years. No taking up aisle space in front of the cabinet when open. No door-banging b/c the door was attached to the susan (like Marcolo's picture). Be aware that if you store smaller items on a blind corner pullout and something falls off, you will have to crawl inside to retrieve the item b/f you will be able to close it. My KD strongly discourages blind corner cabinets b/c of all the complaints she's gotten from customers who insisted on them and then later regreted them. (I thought they looked "cool" the first time I saw them and asked about them. After she showed me how they work, told me about the pitfalls, and told me about all the complaints she's gotten, we decided not to get one.) Other good uses of corners: Drawers (Plllog's kitchen) Corner sink bases (b/c under sink storage is usually poor so you combine them to give you better storage everywhere else.) Installing a 27" or 30" cabinet and turning it 90 degrees to face the back side of the corner...but this only works if the back side is open, like in a peninsula. Yes, some people love their blind corner units, but, to me, they're a "last resort" option...only if absolutely nothing else works. YMMV

The 33-inch lazy susan does have a smaller opening, so depending on how much clearance and what you want to store in the lazy susan, I'd give it some thought. You may be able to take the three inches off the ajoining run of cabinets. I believe the piano hinged door on the asymmetrical 33-inch lazy susan is 12 inches wide on one door and 9 inches wide on the other door, thus it's "asymmetrical". I am in a similar situation in my layout and I'm thinking I'd rather have more clearance for the pots that I'm going to store in the lazy susan and cut my sink base from 36 inches to 33 inches, so I can have the full 36-inch lazy susan in the corner. You have to decide what is more important to you in your kitchen. It's a trade-off. In my case, since I will have two 36-inch lazy susans in my U-shaped kitchen, I think I'd also prefer the symmetry.

Another advantage to the V cut out is that it is significantly easier to remove heavy items. The rotated shelf protrudes OUTSIDE the cabinet and lifting heavy items up through that clearance is much easier, especially with items on the bottom shelf. i just measured. The rotated shelf protrudes nearly six inches beyond the inside corner of the cabinet top. A big help when lifting a food processor. A susan built for a single door, (D shaped) will also protrude when rotated, but much less. Suggestion: Take some newspapers, tape them together to make large enough sheets, and make mock-ups of the shelf space you can have. Then compare what you gain or lose with the two kinds of doors. If your cabinet maker will custom build the susans, you can usually make them significantly larger than the ready-made ones which sometimes leave way too much dead space. You don't need more than an inch between the edge of the susan and the cabinet walls.

Awhile ago I was in an arithmetic mood and did some calculations about corner cabinets. A full circle lazy susan gives you about 20% more storage surface area than a true blind corner (i.e., with the corner blocked off and empty). Lazy susans with the corner cut out give you 5% more, up to maybe 10%, depending on the size of the wedge out. Corner drawers work for full overlay (which a true blind doesn't because the doors/drawers run into each other), but only have a negligibly tiny bit more storage. I'm getting corner drawers because I just don't like lazy susans. The swing out things (there are several kinds) might actually reduce the storage area, from what I can tell without being able to make precise measurements. They not only fill a lot less of the space in a corner than a lazy susan, they also cut down the space available in the cupboard next to the blind corner. My cabinet maker won't touch them! In a place where you have a necessary blind corner there's also the "Arlosmom solution". She put sideways pullouts in the blind area which slide into the adjacent cabinet. Obviously, if you're going to use it a lot you'll want to only store big, easily moved things in front of them. I have two of these corners going into my new kitchen. One upper that has open shelves butting into it, and one next to the laundry sink. My cabinet maker is mounting the pullouts on adjustable shelves so that they can move with the shelves. I figure that up near the ceiling, I will only put the very least used things. Perhaps the lightweight roaster in the actual cupboard, and things like my extra teakettles, which I don't need and don't want to be rid of, in the blind. In the laundry room I'm thinking I'll get baskets for sorting laundry so I won't have piles on the floor, and put them in the cupboard in front of the pull outs, so they'll be really easy to take out for access. I decided against built in sorters (which were on the list for quite awhile) because it worked better for other things, so I really like how this ended up working out.