I would probably go with the half moon. I would also block out the corners, making sure the pull out clears, so things don't fall in the back corner.

I have two of the Ikea Lazy Susan cabinets. I had to use those because the half moon cabinet dimensions are quite different and would not have worked.

Yes, there is some wasted space in the corners, you can store some things back there if you want. I have my panini press back in one corner. Our new kitchen is so space efficient with the drawers, that wasted space is not a problem for me right now.

I'm pretty happy with them so far. One is holding all my small appliances, like a crock pot and has a decent amount of weight on it. It is working well.

I don't think I would like storing food in there though, because it would be hard to clean if there was a spill. I would rather use some drawers in a base cabinet or a wall cabinet for food.

Good point about the corners, palimpsest. Do you prefer the half moon for any particular reason? My concern is that it only swings out halfway, so anything in the back would have to be lifted up and out and might be inconvenient compared to the lazy susan. I do really prefer the kitchen layout I can achieve with the half moon version, I just don't want to waste space. I hope to get my layout posted soon and ask for feedback.

Lisa, yes, the two corner options are very different shapes. Did you see both corner cabs in person? Did you like the half moon, if it would have worked in your layout? I haven't made the three hour trip to IKEA yet, I'm just using the software, but right now, the long half moon works best. Storing bulky kitchen appliances in there might be a good idea; I wouldn't need them often, but they take up a lot of space. Maybe some large mixing bowls and such right at the front for easy access, too.

Thanks , scrappy. That's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. I'm wanted to make sure one wasn't significantly better than the other; if they are pretty similar in functionality and space management, then I would go with the half moon. The IKEA one doesn't have a drawer option, but using the half moon lets me put a much wider drawer stack right where I want one, which is really important to me.

Ikea is very hackable and if you wanted to, I would bet that you could put an upper drawer in the half moon corner cabinet, as long as the half moons can be adjusted in height appropriately. You could start a separate thread asking about that if the kitchen people at Ikea do not know. You would just need a wood support placed in the middle of the cabinet at the right width to mount the drawer, and buy an extra drawer and drawer front. Ikea sells all those thiings individually. The older Akurum system used 21 inch wide door and drawer fronts to leave a few inches clearance for the corner. All that said, it seems like you might prefer it without the upper drawer anyhow, for your large items.

I did see both and I like the Susan better, since it completely spins around. The corners of the Susan cabinet are also easier to access since the cabinet is not as long as the half-moon cabinet.

But if the half-moon lets you use the drawers you want, I would go with that. Drawers can store so much!

In fact, I'll throw out a possibly crazy idea and say depending on what you need to store you might want to consider just letting the corner space be dead and use 24" base cabinet on the door side that you fill with drawers. You probably need to use a little bit of filler in the corner, but it might be the more efficient way to use that space. It really depends on what you decide to store there. Certainly if you wanted to store food, I think a 24" cabinets with a combo of low and medium drawers could store a lot.

just letting the corner space be dead and use 24" base cabinet on the door side that you fill with drawers.

Yes, I'm currently helping a friend figure out a micro kitchen space and we decided a 24" drawer base gave better storage than either of the official corner cabinets.

I am doing drawer stacks almost everywhere else, so this would be one of the only "cupboards". I'll see if I can get my IKEA kitchen plan posted and request feedback.

Interesting thread. I am also planning an IKEA kitchen and plan to use the half moon corner cabinet . My choice was also driven by the fact that I wanted a large 36" drawer bank on one side for my pots. I never really considered that I could add a 21" drawer - it would require a side piece to hold the drawer pull on one side but maybe that's not big deal. And it would have to be an internal drawer since the new line does not have a 21" external drawer front (what were they thinking???). Definitely something to think abut even though it would reduce the available height of the top shelf.

I'm still trying to understand how you would put the middle support piece in to add a drawer. The back of the cabinet is certainly not capable of holding weight--it's really mostly there just to keep it a true square. And with Sektion there's nothing across the front but that little metal brace. So how would this work?

It sure seems to me that you would totally lose the use of the top pullout for anything higher than a cup or small jar of peanut butter.

I don't have Ikea, but I have two corners in my kitchen. One has a super susan, which holds all my small appliances. The other is blocked off, as Lisa suggested, with drawers on both sides. Since that corner is between the sink and the range, I really needed the drawer storage there, for cooking utensils, pots and pans, canisters of sugar, flour, noodles, etc.

The perfect corner solution is going to be completely driven by storage needs.

@equest17, in that case, using the half-moon cabinet is probably your best bet. It is really nice to be able to store some bigger bulky things in those cabinets. And you can set it up so the lesser used items are in the back part of the cabinet.

@writersblock that back connector on the cabinet is particle board and not the metal brace like on most of the cabinets. (At least it is on the susan cabinet, and it looks like it on the half-moon.) You could possibly connect a 1x6 to that and the front of the cabinet and use that for the drawer glide. We ended up removing the backs on all our peninsula cabinets and essentially building a little half-wall inside the cabinet so that we could install support brackets for the countertop. Doing something like that would also work.

Thanks, Lisa.

I also have one of each in a different brand, and I love them! My super Susan hold all my pots and pans and my 1/2 Susan holds my Pyrex. I agree with the poster above, get the one that works best with your design, you can't go wrong either way.

Thanks so much, everyone! It's very helpful to know both options work well. Since I'm doing lots of base drawers everywhere else, using this one cabinet option to take advantage of the corner is my best bet, I think. Again, I'll post my overall layout soon and see what the advice is then.

As a former full time kitchen designer, the option would depend on what was going on in the rest of the room. There have been times where I "killed" the corner completely, as that option would have been expensive and very difficult to use. This question cannot be answered without seeing the entire kitchen layout.

Thanks, Rachiele. I've posted a new thread asking for feedback on the kitchen plan as a whole, but I haven't gotten many responses. It's at http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/4078728/please-critique-my-layout?n=5