Comments on: Ask Unclutterer: Corner kitchen cabinets

By: Susannah

Susannah — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:17:24 +0000

Karen in Wichita:

we went one better with our kitchen in a previous house. The kitchen was too narrow to fit a lazy susan into the corner cabinet at the “anchor” end of the peninsula. We considered putting a door to the backside of the cabinet, but the other side of the peninsula isn’t just the back of the cabinet, it’s a bar-height wall. Instead, we used that space to put in a wine fridge, opening into the living room. Could use any mini-fridge.

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By: Melania

Melania — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:24:51 +0000

I have a corner in my kitchen, ’til I got with the solution for this, I had been looking for all over the internet, but I found a special hinge for corner furniture, is a hinge called Rincomatic, it is composed by a tube at any length you may require with a kind of knuckles which you put on the door’s edge very easily. I asked for it by email when I found it on his web, they told me I could find his product where I live, Ireland. I’m very satisfied with this solution, this is all I can tell to help anyone.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:19:03 +0000

Hi Felicia,

I have problem with my corner doors. I don’t like the bi-fold door. What do you mean when you say “The corner doors overlap on the edge, so I have to open both of them to access the lazy susan, but it closes tightly.”? I plan to make the doors this way. Can you post a picture of it?

Thank a lot

By: PM

PM — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:45:12 +0000

I used to wonder why my Grandma’s kitchen felt so different from my Mum’s, and then I realized: In India, nobody (at least five years ago) had blind corners. The space is just left as open shelving. What a concept – easy, obvious, useful!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:13:04 +0000

We have this Le Mans unit from Hafele. It is awesome! Totally smooth, great use of space, and everyone always comments on how cool it is.
http://www.hafele.com/us/produ.....torage.asp

By: Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:46:44 +0000

oh you’ve got a picture now of the exact thing i was talking about. i hate that thing.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:33:28 +0000

we got a mechanism for my corner cabinet, when you pull the door it pulls out a shelf and another shelf slides across from the corner. Such a great idea, but something on it broke and i think it was a waste of money. If I could do the kitchen all over again, i would make sure the doors to the corner cabinet were bigger so I could access it easier. I think this mechanism cost us $700.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:14:21 +0000

When my parents redid their kitchen, they decided that they hated blind corner cabinets so much that they had to think of another way around the problem. Their solution was to put a 10-inch deep counter with a built-in spice shelf above it on one side of the corner (the rest of the kitchen has enough counter space that losing this area doesn’t matter). The other side has a standard-depth counter. This means that the blind corner isn’t as deep, so we can still reach to the back of it without a lazy susan or blind corner device. We keep very rarely-used items in the way back, so although it does take some effort to get them out, it’s not too much of a pain to do it once or twice a year. Obviously this isn’t a solution for an existing blind corner, but it’s worth thinking about if you’re remodeling.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:48:06 +0000

I have two of the solutions mentioned here:

One corner cabinet backs to the peninsula, so it has doors. It is right next to an exterior door and the kitchen table and is sometimes obstructed by that door, so it gets things that are often needed outside (flashlight) and things that aren’t used all that much (bandaids).

The other corner cabinet has a device like the one featured in the original article. I got it from Lee Valley and it wasn’t nearly as expensive. I find it very useful for moderately-sized appliances that I don’t use every day, but still want handy like the toaster, waffle iron, blender, etc. Everyone who sees it, loves it. People’s jaws literally drop!

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:20:54 +0000

Oops – and I was going to give a link, since it’s kind of buried on their site:

http://www.leevalley.com/hardw.....&ap=2

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:20:29 +0000

I was going to second the Lee Valley suggestion – about $220 gets you the hardware you need to make this happen. I’m about to do this with my pots and pans cabinet, as there are things I think may be living in the rear of the cabinet that fear human life.

By: Jeri Dansky

Jeri Dansky — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:18:55 +0000

You might also want to take a look at theses (the ones shown under blind corners):
http://www.shelfgenie.com/Before_After.cfm

By: Felicia

Felicia — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:38:10 +0000

My lazy susan is large enough to stack my bowls along the outer edges (there is a small lip that keeps them from sliding off) and to turn the lids on their sides and place them between the stack and center pole. The lids for the larger bowls are turned on their sides and stored in a rectangular shaped bowl next to the lazy susan.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:12:32 +0000

@Rick — We had the same problem with our lazy susan. And, because it sat above a heating vent, we couldn’t use the space for storing food. There were always lids at the back of the unit. I put my friends’ children to use retrieving them when they came to visit.

By: STL Mom

STL Mom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:11:23 +0000

We have lazy susans in two corner cabinets. It works well for some items, but small, lightweight things need to be kept in a basket, or they will fall off and get stuck back in the corners. Items that are too heavy will throw off the balance so it doesn’t spin properly. Think carefully about what you want to keep in that cabinet before you install a lazy susan. Can you just put rarely-used pans or holiday items in the back corners, or do you really need to access all the space?