I gave up corner storage to make sure I got more drawers. 1 lazy susan is enough - and I have a pretty small kitchen, but it was worth it to me, and has made the space SO much more functional.
One thing I did do, though, was got the GC to build a tray slot/cutting board storage in the angle, because there were a few inches to play with. It's angled into the centre of the dead space, with a door made to match the rest of the Ikea cabinets. The whole arrangement has been just brilliant for us.

Sara,
Thanks, for a truly new idea! I think I may follow in your footsteps on this one.

We have an L but in that corner is the enclosed pumbing and stack (all in a 13x24 drywall enclosed outjut) - so with that loss of space and the pipes running to the sink and dishwasher on one side what we have to lose is less. But for my Mom the answer was always drawers, drawers, drawers. When I was complaining cause drawers cost more than cabs almost everyone from KD's to co-workers was leave the drawers. It comes down to convenience over space - do you really need the space and will it enhance the day to day more than the convenience of the drawers? It's your call but it sounds like you want those drawers.

I have an "L" and decided to make it a voided corner to get the large banks of drawers I wanted. I wanted 3 30" drawer stacks, not 1 30" and 2 18". I like my big drawers (snicker), and I think corner cabs don't store enough to make up the difference.

I don't care for lazy susans anyway. Stuff always seems to fall off of them! So yes....I would give up a corner space in favor of more drawers. In fact, I did just that!

I have a u-shaped kitchen, with a lazy susan in one corner, but the other corner has a drawer with a cabinet below it on the wall and the dead space was used by having a large appliance cabinet that opens from the other side of the pennisula. It's confusing and hard to explain, but I hope it makes sense, it was a great way for the builder to use all the available space.

If your Ushape is not wall-to-wall, then I agree with the poster above. If one end of the U is open to a peninsula, then have a cabinet that opens from the other side...as in these photos below (showroom photo).

We have a U shaped kitchen and were able to get in both corner cabinets and drawers. We have approx. 8" doors (x2) for the corners with lazy susans (couldn't live without & nothing falls off). Drawers around stove are in 15" cabinet and I still have a pot drawer cabinet of about 30". Good Luck!

I'm getting free-standing cabinets by a place called Greentea, they're an Asian furniture store near me.

With the way they do their freestanding cabinets there isn't anything the offer that easily accommodates using the space in a corner. I also prefer extra drawer space and don't have to worry about getting the maximum storage possible so I'm fine with it. I find a lot of corner cupboard storage solutions look a little weird as well, so I wasn't too sure what I was going to do when looking at other cabinets.

We have a "U" as well (with 2 peninsulas). One corner has a corner prep sink and the other, like keepingitsimple, has a cabinet that opens on the other side of the peninsula. This was done at my DH's request & is our Pet Center. However, if we did not also have a step-in pantry in the Kitchen I would have refused to do it and put a Lazy Susan in instead.

We had a Lazy Susan in our old kitchen and it held ALL our pots & pans. I think LS's hold a lot of space!

We are building a U-shaped kitchen & the KD called for 2 lazy susans in the corners. I called today & had her change one to just a cabinet and I am having 2 doors put on the back side of it so I can access it from the family room. There will be a wall behind the cabinet, but I am going to have them frame a big old access door for me. I will hide my computer & other electronics in there.

Thanks everyone! Actually, I have a lazy susan planned for in the peninsual corner already and want to eliminate the one that is in the corner abutting two walls, so there's no way to access this space from the other side if I give up this corner cabinet, so unless I get creative and rearrange everything, I think I'll just leave it as dead space and keep my drawer storage!

If it's an enclosed U-shape, I say do drawers in one or both corners. I have an enclosed U, with one lazy S and I don't get much use out of it. On one side, the unit meets the range (so I could have put a 12" cab for tray storage there) and on the other it meets a 36" drawer base (could have had two 24" drawer bases).

In my other corner, I prevailed because the cabinet run meets a 12" deep pantry run--and I wouldn't budge on the pantries--so I "only" lost 12 or so inches of "usable" space. The side of the pantry creates a little shelter, where I hide my coffeemaker. Much happier with this side.

That Lazy S and the spice pullout are my two nitpicks with the cabinet layout. Based on how I use a kitchen, they are totally wasted space.

Have you considered drawers in the corner itself? I know that Blum makes a unit for that purpose. It would require you to give up some of your adjacent drawer space, though, and there is still some dead space.

Here is a link that might be useful: Corner drawers

Glad to hear you've decided to go with what you chose for yourself for your kitchen that you work in.

Here's an interesting thread from "Woodweb" about the problem of corner cabinets. I favor the response of "Contributor L", and in our plan I have elected to have all drawers in the base cabs, except for a small vertical tray storage area.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen corner cabinets discussion

Another idea, though a little hard to describe-
If the remaining short counter after the corner is really just 23 inches, can you leave that out and put a rolling island/cart there? Then, you could have storage (drawers, if you prefer) all the way to the wall, with no lost space for fillers to avoid crashing drawers). It's easy to roll the cart (20-24 inches deep) away when you want to get to the end set of drawers (though you still might prefer to store less-frequently used things there). If you were also going to have upper cabinets over that 23 inches, I guess that might not work, (artwork, or shallow open shelving would work) but if not, I think you will end up with MORE storage space this way (no lost space, plus the addition of any shelves or cabinets on the rolling cart).

My DH gave me this from a wood web site.... I must give them and him all the credit.
From contributor L:
Here is my solution to the "wasted space" in the corner issue - forget about it! Here is why: Suppose you just make that space in the corner "dead." Now, compare that to a lazy susan - first I have to take away 12" of good, usable, direct access cabinetry from each side. Accounting for 2" fillers, that is a loss of 10" on each face, or 20" total. 20" times the interior depth of 23" is 460 sq.in. So that is a net loss of 3.19 sq.ft. of horizontal interior surface. Then I put a 32" pie-cut susan in there and gain back 603 sq.in* - a net gain of only 143 sq.in. or 1 sq.ft. Since you have 2 levels, that is a net gain of 2 sq.ft. so far - and then you lose 20"** of top drawers, since most of us leave the top drawers out to improve access to the lazy susan. That is an additional net loss of 20"x 22"= 440 sq.in. or 3 sq.ft. So, to sum it up, with a lazy susan you loose 1 sq.ft. of storage space compared to a dead corner. Plus you just spent a bunch of the customer's money for that lazy susan. from woodweb
I ditched the susans and put in 2 drawer banks. on the opposing "corner" we put a 15" cab with door/ drawer on top, a shelf in the "dreaded dead spot" to store the turkey pan, huge gumbo pot and such. I could put in "a pull out something" or other just as long as I could get to the seasonal stuff tucked back there. Makes it much more usable.

I'm so glad I'm not alone.

I've planned one corner unit with an LS and then I've planned drawers for the other coner - leaving the corner itself as dead space.

I'm off to IKEA tomorrow so today is the last day I can change my mind. This thread has reassured me I'm doing the right thing.