Deardre, I am SO pleased that my post was useful to you. I have wondered if posting it was just an ego-trip, or might be useful to others. I hope you will let us know how your project turns out. Raehelen, The link deardre posted is to my retrofit. FYI: my upper cabs are 15'' deep, and the door angles so that 24'' D-shaped shelves worked for me. You will need to measure carefully to decide what is your best fit. Also, I urge you to consider the vertical space between shelves. So often a LOT of space is wasted when an additional shelf would be much more efficient. And with the susans, you don't need to be able to reach INTO the space--you just pluck items from the front!! You might have to store seldom used stuff on the top two shelves and use a stool to access them, but that is found space, and I can reach every inch of the bottom two shelves from the floor. I sure could not do that pre-susans. If I can be of any use to you, let me know. Sandra This post was edited by Bellsmom on Tue, Jan 15, 13 at 22:17

Blind corner cabinets are a particular interest of mine for several reasons. I have written quite a few blogs about them, and I have a blind corner in the kitchen I desperately want to remodel. Because I'm a cabinetmaker, I can pretty much do whatever I wantÂwithin reason of course. And, in the end, I rather fear that I am not going to do much of anything with that corner. It will be much better than it was, but some parts of it are forever dead because we're not willing to expand the kitchen, and the space limitations we have greatly restrict our choices. I won't reproduce the arguments here, but I will say that I never did find a solution to the blind corners for base cabinets that I thought was any better than simply letting that blind corner go and simply installing drawer banks on the legs of the blind corners. Basically, it's a matter of simple math. You figure out how much space you'll get with various solutions and compare it to the space you would have with a dead corner and two drawer banks. However, I did find a number of solutions that worked well for upper cabinets, and I will incorporate something like that in our kitchen when I make it. The link below will take you to one of the ideas I liked best. I will definitely do some variation of this for the upper cabinets in our kitchen in that corner. There were also a number of other ideas I came across that that utilized the entire blind corner and did a wonderful job. I personally don't have a problem with simply boarding up a blind corner for base cabinets, but there are enough elegantÂand worthwhileÂsolutions for upper cabinets, that it seems a shame to end up with a dead corner where things go to die, which, sadly, is what I currently have in my kitchen! Here is a link that might be useful: Cabinet & Furniture Trends & Information

In the last kitchen that I had a blind corner upper, that's where the giveaway vases went. I tend to buy them at thrift stores and garage sales, and when I have an event that dictates that I cut flowers for it, I grabbed one out of there to give to the recipient and no one ever needed to worry about returning it to me. My laundry room cabinet serves that purpose now that the blind corner is gone.

I no longer have mine. But doing the math - the cabinet box was 24", and the sides were 12". That makes the angled face just under 17". However, they were builder grade face frame, so the cabinet walls and face frame took up anywhere from 2 to 4", leaving 13 or 14" for the opening. I honestly don't think widening the opening by 3 or 4 inches would have helped a whole lot. The only items in an angled cabinet that are readily accessible are those right in front. Of course the same is true of a rectangular cabinet, but in the angled cab, you have the side corners and back that can hold stuff, but are impossible to reach without moving the items in the front. And because the angled corner cab is deeper than a standard wall cabinet, there is even more stuff lost in the back. If you're short, like me, it is impossible to reach things at the back, even on the bottom shelf. Sure, you get a lot of storage, but unless you have a lot of things that you use rarely, it's not very useful storage. When I cleaned out my angled uppers prior to renovation, I was embarrassed by how much crap was in them - things I had no idea I even had. Most things got tossed or donated - if I haven't used them for years (because I don't know they're there), I don't need them. In the 25 years we had those cabinets, I did clean them out periodically - and it was the same story every time. Stuff just gets lost in those back holes. I did a little sketch, and a little math. For the sake of simplicity, I'm ignoring the actual width of cabinet walls, and assuming the corner cabinet is 24" x 24", and adjacent cabinets are 12" deep. With an angled corner, I'm considering usable space to be that in front of the door - the square space outlined in green. But because that square is 17" deep, potentially only the first 12" are easily usable (shown by the dotted green line), cutting the usable area down from 576 square inches actual space to about 200 sq in usable space. Applying the same criteria to the easy reach, where the corner is considered less accessible, you have 432 sq in actual, and 288 sq in accessible. Obviously, YMMV in both scenarios, depending on what's in the cabinet. Another thing to consider - I put an extra shelf in one of my easy reach cabs, giving me more total usable area in that cab. While it's possible to do that with an angled cabinet, reducing the height makes the back and sides even darker and less convenient.