chuckling at the name of your cabinet area... Bermuda Triangle.

The lower shelf of my pantry is the BT in our house. Great inspiration Martha!

Too funny. Don't we all have parts of our house that end up "miscellaneous?" It's maddening.

Good for you! My kitchen cupboards are 90degrees and have that despised 'black hole' where it's so far back and everything gets lost. I just throw plastic take-out containers etc back there, as I use them so little. But what a waste. I absolutely despise them.

I had an aha moment one time too. My old wall unit has a drop down door that housed the liquor at that time. That's where I have my waffle iron and grill/griddle. Handy when I need them.

Martha do have any spare time? My husband's entire workshop is a Bermuda Triangle!

that despised 'black hole' where it's so far back and everything gets lost.

I have 1 cabinet w/ doors and couldn't reach in the back of the 2 shelves.

on the top one I put 2 plastic bins - they contain my plastic storage containers. I can usually reach what I need easily - if it's something far in the back I just slide the bin out to reach it. on the bottom shelf I store some old family serving pieces in the far back. I'll probably never use them again... at the front of the shelf (where I can reach) I keep some things I seldom use but can reach them when needed.

you could also put things on a tray on one of those deep shelves and slide it out to reach things in the back.

My husband's entire workshop is a Bermuda Triangle!

I think of my whole house as that !

I now have a lazy susan in the corner where my blind end cabinet used to be. I didn't realize how much less it would hold.

There's nothing like a kitchen re-model where ALL of the cabinet contents end up in boxes or bins, to make you sort it all out and examine each and every item for worthiness. I do regret giving away some things that I did.

For years we had a “junk drawer” in the kitchen, Then we realized we had “junk drawers” plural in kitchen. During this time of looking for things to entertain me, we started cleaning out “junk drawers”; not one thing did we need and tossed it all. At this point they are both empty. Amazing for years would throw in drawer thinking I would need someday.

Congratulations!

Great...love it when that happens!

Good job well done! We change cooking, cleaning, & other habits over the years, and it's good to relook at organization from time to time, to make sure the things you use the most NOW, are up front and easily accessible.

And Nickel -- nothing is stored back there and I intend to keep it that way now that it is cleaned out!

Before our kitchen remodel I told the cabinet maker to make sure there is one shelf that will hold the tallest cereal box they make. In the top corner cabinet he made the cereal shelf, and since it's so deep it's a great place to store vinegars, OO, cooking oil and the tub of Crisco. We keep our summer canning jars in the middle shelf, and not sure what's up top.

The bottom corner shelf he made it specifically for pots and pans, two levels. I keep lids in the oven drawer. The deep area is where I put pans I don't use that often.

My best friend in the kitchen are the long tongs I keep close by to help me get something off those shelves. :)

I was horrified when I emptied out the blind end cabinet. There wasn't one thing in there that I had used in 5 or 10 years. I felt shame. But I put a happy face on it and pretended I was cheerfully donating it all. *Gasp* It was kind of a little hoard back there. 😳

I have a funny triangular end cabinet. Almost nothing fits in there. I swear I had not opened it in years. When I finally looked inside I was surprised to find I own a bunch of Corningware. Who knew? I also have two corner cabinets that are black holes.

I have tall cabinets in the kitchen and deep corner lower cabinets. I bought lazy Susan's, the largest sizes for all. Now I can reach everything and there is very little wasted space. I even have one for heavy loads, holds several canisters 10 lbs or so of flour, sugar and other dry food items and gallon containers of oil and other stuff. Best of all, I don't need to use a step stool to get what I need from the tall cupboards. And.....while setting them up, I found three unopened bottles of A1, several of different vinegar, and other treasures! Best and cheapest remodel for my kitchen. By the way, I am just a bit over 5' 1" and could only reach the first two or three inches of the shelves. And now I don't have to crawl on the floor to find the soy sauce in the back of the lower shelf.

I have one corner cabinet in L.A. that has a lazy Susan, and it used to have a second shelf, which I removed so that I could put larger things in the bottom shelf. Unfortunately, I have ended up storing things there that I use a lot, and it is very inconvenient for me to get to them. I really dislike lower cabinets and wish I had more upper cabinets. I do not mind using a step stool to reach items higher up, and I also have a grabber that I frequently use to get certain items stored in the highest shelves inside upper cabinets.

Wherever I have lived, I have always wanted a larger kitchen, but there are drawbacks to having large kitchens as well, as things get separated by large distances that are not convenient.

So nice that you were able to reconfigure how you store things to make the space work for you. Those cabinet corners are such a challenge. In my last house I used the area for seldom used small appliances.

Love the term Bermuda Triangle. My Bermuda Triangles are bigger spaces with no shelves in my butler panty. We have a small kitchen. To improve storage the prior owners turned the laundry room across a hall into a butler’s pantry/bar. On the pantry side, three of the cabinets have no shelving. They must have stored a lot of tall items. One cabinet is large enough you could use it to hold two large dog crates. Anyway the cabinets do not work well. Finally convinced my DH that we need to add shelves or pullout drawers. In the past whenever I would bring this up he really would not understand, amazing what he figures out when he is at home all week.

I just put all my items from a similar area in a box and shuttled them out to the garage. It was for an unexpected visit from some company that I had intended to entertain out on our porch, but the weather took a dramatic turn for the chilly. I had to set up a socially distanced "picnic" area between the family room and kitchen, which necessitated clearing off the open counter between the two. That's where I put my stuff from the kitchen that I need to deal with at some point. But the time never seems to come. Now it is in the garage, which is item purgatory right now, only to be opened some day with the exclamation, "Oh, yeah, I really should have done something with this . . . " On the plus side, hubs figured out yesterday how to get the top off a bottle of Irish Cream that I had accidentally taken home with the anti-theft cap on, and then subsequently lost the receipt for it. Two years ago . . . but thankfully it is still good! Having some now with my morning coffee.