No Place to Put the Trash Can? Use the Bottom of a Kitchen Island Cart

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
published Jan 6, 2014
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(Image credit: Leah Verway)

If you cook in a small kitchen or in an older kitchen with a unique layout, you may find there’s no good place to put the trash can where it isn’t in the way! That’s the dilemma Leah Verwey faced in a recent Sneak Peek on Design*Sponge, so her solution was to stash two smaller trash cans in the bottom of a repurposed vintage cart.

(Image credit: Leah Verway)

As she tells Design*Sponge, “We picked up [the cart] at a thrift store and threw a scrap of IKEA butcher top that we had already. It is sometimes an island, and sometimes tucked away to the side of the room, but at least we don’t kick the [trash] cans around and have a slice of more counter space.”

We love smart, small-space storage solutions like this. Have you found a clever way in your own kitchen to store your trash can?

See more of Leah’s lovely home → In Portland, a Well-Loved Home at Design*Sponge

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