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Oh heavenly! Who could resist a corner drawer and why did it take so long to come up with this? [Also with the freezer-goes- on-the-bottom-of-the-fridge revolution - what took THAT so long?]

That's exactly what I though, Kyla! Corner drawers - hello!

they are the ones to come up with it. it's manfuctured by a company named 'blum'

http://www.blum.com/us/en/01/40/80/index.php

But what happens with the space on either side of the corner drawers? Is it utilized at all?

These are certainly fun, but I don't see how they actually improve anything.

You don't solve the drawer-bumping problem, but instead just pass it along to the next set of drawers. If anything you make it worse, since when the corner drawer is open, there are two other drawers that you can't open, rather than just one.

And you don't actually gain any space. Rather than wasting a square-shaped corner space, you waste two triangular-shaped spaces on either side of the drawers. Back-of-the-envelope math says that the area is the same: you just trade in two rectangular drawers for one awkward chevron-shaped one.

But at least they're expensive :)

i love em but damn i KNOW i'd hurt myself on those sharp corners!

cute idea, we have a lazy susan in our corner.

I'm a little rusty on my geometry, but I don't think this utilizes any more space than normal drawers, in fact it may leave more wasted space under the counter depending on if the back of the drawer is straight or triangular

Nadiarl,

Here's the back-of-the-envelope math I did, which for simplicity's sake ignores offsets, gaps etc:

A 12" drawer that's 24" deep gives you two square feet of storage. Two 12" drawers will give you four square feet of storage.

If you replace the two 12" drawers with a corner drawer, you now have a drawer that's sqrt(1^2 1^2) feet wide. From what I can tell, the back is triangular-shaped, so the notch in is compensated for by a notch out. In other words, you end up with an effective depth of sqrt(2^2 2^2). That gives you a drawer with area sqrt(2) * sqrt(8), or four square feet.

This ignores the various offsets associated with cabinet-making, but for all intents and purposes, you haven't gained anything; you just get to cram everything into one long and awkwardly-shaped drawer instead of two standard drawers.

While it's not a ton more utilized space I think you do get a bit more storage... if it was 2 drawers perpendicular to one another you'd have the corner post area with 2 or 3 dead inches (unused space) and skinny drawers that may not fit a wide variety of things. In my apartment the drawers next to the stove were just skinny things before the corner in the counter. This corner drawer is nice and wide on the inside which makes it more usable for most stuff and you get to use that space that otherwise was dead space.