I couldn't believe how much stuff was in my cabinets. The frames are staying but my GC recommended everything come out because of the dust, etc. To say the least. Everything gets dusty and dirty. I can't imagine leaving things inside during reno. Everything I don't use on a daily basis went out into the garage in boxes. No need to pack like you're moving. Some of that stuff may end up being given away or stored in the garage permanently. There were many things I haven't used in the 12 years I've been in this house, and I question why I'm hanging on to them. Food, utensils, everyday dishes, pots and pans are in boxes in my dining room. I peer into them from time to time and snag a granola bar or tin of smoked trout. My stove and fridge are still in place and work, but my sink and DW aren't connected. I've heated some soup and used the oven once, but prep and cooking really need water close by. My coffee maker and cleanup area is my guest bath. I allowed myself one of everything (plate, bowl, mug, glass, spatula, etc.). I have to remember to wipe all my dishes before washing so no particles of food go down the bathroom drain. My microwave is in my office and I rely on it to heat food for dinner. My cats think it's a great perch. I'm into my third week like this with at least another week to go before my kitchen can start being put back together. I'm surviving. People live their lives in far worse conditions. I think I'm most anxious to be able to get boxes off the floor and clean the place. Everything's dirty and sticky. Good luck with your kitchen! Take a lot of pics.

I will have one blind corner in my kitchen (new house build), and after reading the dialogue at the following link (see Contributor L response), I have decided to forget about using this space and just design around it. However, if you must use this space, there are several good suggestions here. I have copied/pasted it here because the URL keeps getting rejected by THS. The website is "WoodWeb" and includes a forum for cabinet makers to exchange info. http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Kitchen_Corner_Cabinets.html

For what it's worth, though, we splurged on the schmancy Hafele version---it works beautifully (we chose it over the Lee Valley after reading a lot of reports of the hardware being difficult to open/close over time on those, and our cabinetmaker said he had been called many times to fix the non-Hafele ones, though he didn't know who'd made the ones he'd worked on). BUT---the basic design is the same. Our cabinetmaker strongly advised us against having a drawer over ours because it would cut down clearance; I insisted on it anyway since I knew what I wanted to store there and for in our small kitchen the drawer was more important. We also have frameless cabinets, which helps considerably---you're losing at least 2-3" of clearance with framed cabinets here. Ours also does swivel close to 90 degrees, I think; I can't tell from the photo if it's actually different from yours or not in that regard. I think at the end of the day, all of the blind corner units work much better if they don't have drawers over them, and if the doors are as wide as possible (frameless or not). We didn't have a choice with our door size, but we ruled out the Hafele kidney bean shaped pullouts because the one that cleared our door size was tiny---it only took up a third of the space inside the cabinet! We didn't have the extra inch of door needed to jump to the next size. It's just tricky to find good ways to use this space, I think.

Thanks all. I guess I'm not quite ready yet, am I? Naturally, the 32" and 36" are in two different lines so I can't mix them, although I think one can be custom sized (or I could keep looking). If I do a custom size order, I can just go ahead and fill the wall. And...there are different depths. Would it be weird to have the one (ones?) in the middle be extra deep, breakfront style? I'd like the extra depth but I have a light switch to consider. :) It's very possible that they will be moved at some point. I've been told that I have a bad habit of rearranging furniture (and then telling the spouse to redo all the media hookups heh heh). Nosocc, I tried to make IKEA work for me. I really did! But it would have to be painted and I have too many unfinished projects. (I actually kinda enjoy the assembly part.) The wood species/colors on Billy just don't work with what we have. Psst, isn't that Billy and not Hemnes? See? I've been looking! The styling on Hemnes is too contemporary? Modern? Current? Pottery Barnish? Anyway, not neutral (like Billy) enough to slip in to my used furniture mix.