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Comments (10)Personally, I wouldn't want my silverware (or anything) in a drawer above the trash pullout. Will this be where your main trash sits? If you have a huge recycling center/trash center then you'll have items under there for a week or so. Will you have a compost bin under there as well? I may be wrong, but wouldn't odor and/or fruit flies find there way up into the drawer? We change our trash constantly, but there are those days when we open the trash in the morning and get hit by the odor of last night's dinner scraps that someone threw in the night before. Out goes the trash of course. But to have the silverware or anything above all night? Is that okay?? Our main garbage is a Simple Human trash can with foot pedal (this is the trash can that on occasion can get smelly). And then we also have a trash pull out. There is no drawer above our pull out on purpose. The pull out has two bins. One is used for compost scraps and the other is for light garbage (wrappers, paper, etc. No food scraps). Above the bins, inside the pull out, there is a shelf. We use this shelf for our fly swatter and feather duster....See MoreDumb question about pull-out trash cans!!
Comments (12)I considered moving the trash to a different cabinet that is smaller, but I really want to keep it near the sink. (although it is currently located under my cooktop and I actually really like it there!) And I can't deduct 3" from that cabinet and add it to another because of where it's located (between supersusan corner cabinet and sink cabinet) The space will be completely divided by a wood partition from top to bottom, front to back, so I hope that garbage doesn't get in there!! However, I really only wanted to keep serving trays in there, which I don't use all that often and would probably rinse off before use anyway. Badgergal, that's exactly what I was thinking!! Was it difficult to get the trash hardware placed on the door exactly where it needed to be so that the door would fit into place correctly? That's my concern...especially since the doors are inset. I'll probably leave this for my contractor but I kind of need a plan in place to know if I should order an unattached door for that cabinet (to attach to garbage) or a regular door that opens to the side....See MoreAdvice on cabinet layout, trash under sink?
Comments (15)Hi folks, thanks for the feedback! I think I'm going with the trash under sink. I was deciding between one of the Kohler cast iron sinks, so I’ll go with the Kohler Riverby that has an offset drain. That should give room for a double trash pull out on the left. I’m leaning towards doing a pull-out on the right as well, even if not as amazing as Walt’s set up (wow!). I like that the storage will be accessible, even if I lose some space from the pull-outs and face frames. I also like that I could center both pulls on the top of the door, though it’s helpful to see that badgergal’s configuration could be an option. I'm planning to do inset doors and partial overlay drawers. My house is a 1915 craftsman bungalow, and this matches my dining room built-in. My cabinetmaker warns that inset doors tend to rub with the corner piano hinge, so thought I’d avoid that with an overlay in the corner, which won’t be very conspicuous. Now that all the lowers are drawers/corner cabinet except these undersink pull-outs—would you do the sink cabinet with partial overlay (matching drawers and corner cab in the other lowers) or inset (matching doors on the uppers/tall)? The lowers will be cherry and uppers/tall will be white. Here's a pic of what I mean (sorry for the quality, it's literally a photo of my Bungalow Kitchens book): And here's my dining room built-in. I'm not trying to replicate it in the kitchen; it just illustrates the inset/overlay mix: AnnKH, are your cabinets face-framed or frameless? Mine will be face-framed, so I was thinking about sticking with the 3 door stack so I lose less vertical space with the rails but am curious how yours is set up....See MoreAdvice please.KitchenTrash pull out troubles- pic provide
Comments (21)"...do you think I should put the sink across from the fridge?" I wouldn't because you'd lose counter space directly across from the fridge and pantry. That's where I set groceries down to put them away and where I set items I've just taken out of the fridge and pantry. Plus that aisle is less generous because of the fridge so you could be doing more butt bumping when you're at the sink and someone wants something from the fridge. And yes, definitely consider a single bowl sink for your clean-up sink. I went from a double bowl to a single bowl and I love it! I'd never go back to a double bowl again. I have a very large sheet pan soaking in my sink right now (roasted veggies for dinner last night). It would never have fit inside one side of my double bowl so I'd have to soak it on the counter. Since you prep at your island, it makes sense to have your trash at the island, too, unless that means that you're giving up much needed cabinet space in your island. If you got a single bowl with an offset drain for your clean-up sink, you'd have more than enough room for a larger trash bin under your clean-up sink. Something to consider: put your trash on the left and your sink on the right. That moves your sink away from the edge and moves the trash closer to the clean-up sink. You'd still have quite a bit of room to prep at your island, plus someone could prep on the short end, too. I needed 4 bins: trash, glass recycling, mixed recycling and returnables. My trash and glass recycling is under my sink and my mixed recycling and returnables are in a pull-out in my island across from my sink (my sink is diagonally across the aisle to the right). I prep between sink and cook top (to the right of my island) and at the island. These trash pull-outs are convenient to prep in both locations. Hope the above makes sense. Still fighting this bloody cold....See MoreBuehl
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