I live with a small, tight kitchen that has a lot of its storage tucked into the corners. There are old-fashioned Lazy Susan wheels in several corner cupboards, and they creak and bang and groan. But I didn't realize there was any other option — until I saw this totally dreamy corner cabinet. Click through to see a video of this dreamboat cupboard in action!
See how the two sets of shelves swivel and slide out? I pretty much swooned when I saw this. (OK, I am a bit of a geek when it comes to kitchen storage!) It makes the whole cupboard completely functional, without any dark back corners to get cluttered and unused.
When my husband and I travel for his work, we usually rent apartments instead of hotel rooms (sometimes it's even cheaper to get an apartment, especially in Europe!) so I am always scoping out the kitchens and finding interesting ideas. This extremely functional corner cabinet is one that I'd love to take back to my own kitchen with me! Hmm....
(And, by the way, if you need an apartment rental in San Francisco, here is the one we stayed in.)
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That is amazing. I'm fairly happy with mine, too. It has a double-hinged door-on-both-sides-of-the-corner situation. Neither part of the door is very big, so you would think not much could fit , but it is a huge space. The shelves are staggered, one along the left wall, then the one below on the right wall, etc. This maybe doesn't allow for the most stuff to be crammed in, but I keep my baking supplies in there and I can see or grab anything without having to un-pile tons of stuff.
Okay, so who made it, and where can I get one? it maxes space!
We got ours from Cabinets By Design:
http://www.europeancabinets.com/
but I am pretty sure Scavolini, Alno, and other high-end European kitchen designers make them too.
These are a must for the kitchens in the custom homes that my (architecture) firm does. They are available in Canada through the architectural hardware companies Hafele and Richelieu, but sadly not directly to the public.
What are the other wire shelves tucked away inside the cabinet? They look like they're hard to reach. Maybe I'm not understanding what I'm seeing.
Oh, never mind, I get it. Very cool.
These are the latest thing these days. And they have a spiffy name: Magic Corner cabinet!
Ours are made by Kessebohmer, and the rear shelves push forward (in addition to sliding left) when the door is opened fully.
I'm a big fan of the corner turnout cabinets, they use a simpler pivot/glide movement, and usually have a half round shaped shelf. Some of the turnouts we've used have shelves shaped like a peanut, which hugs the corner better.
Great corner solution!
I've heard these called Super Susans. They were WAY more expensive than plain cabinets or regular lazy susans when we re-did our last kitchen, so we just did without. I still think you can cram more into a plain corner cabinet, but you have to be super organized and willing to get down close to the ground when you need something. I think we have about 10 boxes of wine glasses shoved in ours.
But then you miss out on the fun of crawling into the cabinet to retrieve the stuff that's fallen off the back of the lazy susan! This is brilliant.
We have those!
When my parents built their house, they wanted to make sure it was somewhere that they could grow old in. They're fantastic, and make great use out of that space - moreso than any lazy susan I've ever seen.
The other awesome thing they did is put in drawers instead of shelves in the lower cabinets. I will be copying that idea for sure once I have a kitchen of my own to redo.
I don't see how it's a whole lot better. It looks like it would be really, really hard to squeeze behind the door to reach the second set of shelves.
My favorite kitchen cabinet feature is drawers. It's so much easier to see and reach what you need.
I agree with LSUgrad- looks like a tight squeeze to get to the pots and such still tucked under the cupboard. good idea though.
When I do a kitchen, I'm definitely devoting a whole cabinet to a lift for my KitchenAid.
They have those and lots of other similar nifty items at http://www.leevalley.com/
I considered these from Rev-A-Shelf before I decided on a heavy duty wooden kidney shaped "Super Susan" so it would hold all my cast iron.
There are 2 types... both very cool. (not a cool name... blind corner wire pullouts) Check them out!
http://www.rev-a-shelf.com/Common/ProductClassification.aspx?class=Lazy%20Susans&family=Chrome%20Accessories&category=Blind%20Corner%20Wire%20Pullouts
Please, please... someone. Tell me how to paste a link and then rename it like I see it all over the blogosphere.
I dream about cupboards like this!! I would love to replace what I call "The Stupid Cupboards". (the problem to this solution)
one word comment: PRICEY!!!
We have something similar, and it is a huge PITA.
*cries*
The only technology I have in my rental is to stuck my head in the corner cupboard, feel for what I need, make every thing that's pilled on, fall everywhere, throw things back in, and then bang my head on the counter. Nice.
Thank you Bibliovore!
...thank you... thank you... THANK YOU!
I didn't know what those and the things were under this comment box. I appreciate the time you took to respond.
ooops... I was typing and accidentally made a link... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. ;-)
I used an entire base cabinet as a house for my KitchenAid mixer. It sits on a pop-up shelf that raises to counter height (and I even put an outlet inside the cabinet so the mixer is always plugged in!) I LOVE IT!