Lazy Susan cabinet - best use?
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Comments (3)I would put a vertical pull on the door that opens first and nothing on the other one. A horizontal bar pull might hit the adjacent cab before the door is fully open causing the opening to be teeny tiny....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 Moretop corner two-hinged cabinet and lazy Susan
Comments (9)Can you put infrequently used items in it? How tall are you? I do agree with your contractor that accessing anything above the bottom or second-to-bottom shelf (if you are a little taller) is inconvenient without a stool. Also helps if you are skinny so you can more easily wedge yourself into the corner to reach up. Personally I'm not a big fan of lazy susans in a 12" deep cabinet. At 5'7" I can reach anything on the bottom shelf just fine and put things on the second shelf that can be easily grabbed without reaching in (paper plates). We use our upper corner cabinet for an assortment of infrequently used items: paper plates, bulk boxes of plastic utensils, extra coffee mugs, a few serving dishes. Most of these we only need to pull down a few times per year so getting the step stool out is fine....See MoreWhat do you store in your Base Corner Lazy Susan cabinet?
Comments (29)My Ikea lazy susan cab sits right next to my sink cabinet. I've read many posts here where peeps complain that the Ikea susan wastes space (it's a 38x38" cab and there is about 4 or 5 inches of empty space between the shelves and the the cabinet sides. Well, I find this "wasted space" perfect for storing large items upright that don't fit in any other cabinet and that I use when working at the sink. On one side of the susan, I store a super sized cutting board that we use for prepping over the sink/counter and an extra large tray that we use daily to carry dishes and food from the kitchen to the dining room and back. On the other side of the rotating susan we've installed a pull-out double towel rail for my dish towels (my under-sink pull-out holds a trash can and cleaning supplies and I really didn't want to keep my dish towels in there). The bottom holds a foldable step stool The rotating shelves hold my salad spinner, an extra dishpan and colanders of various sizes, a well as small appliances such as the juicer, mixer, food processor, blender etc. Plus I have plenty of space left for new gadgets in the future. :-) During planning our new kitchen, I worried that opening the double doors of the susan cab and retrieving the items on the shelves would would feel awkward, but that's not the case at all. I'm glad I ignored the much repeated advice on this forum, to forgo the corner cab altogether or do a blind corner. Best of luck with your kitchen remodel....See MoreAnnKH
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