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Comments (12)I did not want to spend a lot of money on my garage, so I bought a nice USED kitchen from someone doing a remodel on their kitchen. Love all those cabinets for storage and counter tops for a work area. I hired two laborers to move the units... and had a carpenter install all the cabinets and counter tops in the garage with a new Formica sort of wood-look top. I might change out the doors later for a wood look. My laundry room shares a garage wall and I had a plumber connect a pipe into the garage and install the kitchen sink that came with the kitchen. :) Nice to have running water in the garage for my garden clean up... washing out my old pots or paint brushes I don't want to wash inside my home. I put rubber mats in the old stainless steel sink too. With all the counter space, I can do a lot of different things. It is fun to go to garage sales or thrift stores looking for the perfect old stool or high chair for the garage. :) A friend bought two of those big metal garage cabinets at Sam's (I forget the price) and installed in their garage to take care of a lot of things like tools. They also bought those big heavy garage mats at Sam's for one area of their garage if that is your taste. I have always done the "install old kitchen units" in my garages over the years, as most of these can be fixed up with cheap wood looking Formica tops from Home Depot or inexpensive new cabinet doors. Those old kitchen counters are a lot stronger than any of these units sold by companies. It will cost under $500. if you find the right kitchen to put in. One time I got a unit for free to haul away. No one realizes my garage storage was once a kitchen. They think I had the upper and lower cabinets built in etc. I use hooks on the wall for certain things and I have this medium size brown antique barrel where I put things like rakes and other long handled items upside down. We have 95 degree humid summers here but no really cold weather. I think kitchens are built for all kinds of weather. Anyway... that is what I do in a garage for storage and counter space....See Moreeasy reach wall cabinet design without hinged doors?
Comments (6)When we remodeled our kitchen in 1992, we got easy reach cabinets. I LOVE mine. They are made the way you describe: I close the left side first and then the right. The right door is slightly smaller so that it crosses over. They are Schrock cabinets, but my most recent Schrock catalogs show them hinged. They may be available as a special order. The shelves stagger according to need and crisscross. You don't get L-shaped shelves. I do sometimes wish a one-touch door--maybe it would get in the way. BTW, it's a 24 x 24 corner upper, 12" deep. One door is 10 13/16" and the other is 10 1/8"....See Moresize of cabinet door for magic corner cabinet?
Comments (7)@flseadog, that is exactly the situation we have. If you do a magic corner, you need to reserve some of the 21" for filler at the corner to allow the door/drawer on the opposite side of the corner to open, so you're right, you need a solution that takes a door size of 19" or less (maybe you could swing 19.5" but I'd worry about clearances there). We're using an 18" door + drawer with 3" of wiggle room. I believe Magic Corner I will work (checked the specs again after this thread!) and Magic Corner II will not work. There are also a bunch of other solutions that will fit, but that don't take very good advantage of the blind space. (Most require a 36" cabinet with 15" door, so if, say, you're us and you have room for an 18" door with a 45" cabinet---you don't use most of that space with any of the gadget solutions.) Without knowing your daughter's layout, I'd still say it's probably worth it to do a blind corner of some variety over a susan and preserve space for the drawer banks. That's the reason we didn't look at any susan solutions---it wasn't worth it to lose the drawers. Any corner solution is going to be inferior to drawers as a storage space, in my view. The last option is to ignore the corner completely and just use a bank of drawers on each side with empty space in the corner---most useful if you have an option of accessing that space from the other side (another room, etc.)...See MorePlease help Lazy Susan corner cabinet or Blind Corner Cabinet
Comments (69)Lisa - two KD people that I have spoken to said that the voided corner does not provide wider drawers on either side. What am I missing? Nothing as far as I can tell because what they are telling you makes no sense to me at all. If you don't give up 12" of linear space to a Susan, you gain 9" of drawer width (3" goes to spacer at corner). I considered adding a BCC to my sink corner (didn't have space on sink side to do corner Susan) but opted not to because a) it wasn't the right kind of storage for that corner and b) a drawer base was cheaper storage than a BCC. Here's my corner. Drawers & trash pull-outs open. If I had done a BCC, I would have lost the bank of drawers on the right. If I'd had room for a corner Susan, I would have lost 27" of much needed drawer storage. The few items that I would have been able to store in a BCC (ditto for a corner Susan) ended up in a a single drawer in a much roomier cab next to my wall oven. I use the items in the drawers in my prep zone much more regularly than the items I use in the drawer by my oven. A few extra steps now and then is a much better option than extra steps several times a day, IMO. Look at the whole picture when it comes to storage. What you decide for one area affects storage in another. It's a domino effect, IME....See Moregranada222
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