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I have been trying to decide what I wanted to do with a corner cabinet in my kitchen. I don't really like lazy susans all that much. I saw this photo on facebook and thought that this just might work. What do you think?
 

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I really like that. I'm not a big fan of lazy Susan's either. Either to much wasted space or so much stuff you can easily find things. I do nearly all the cooking at our house and like to easily find what I'm looking for.
 
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Hey, Roxanne; where ya been, Girl? You've been missed! :)

Here's a thought on a variation of that.
Use a single folding door, and pullouts rather than drawers...or maybe a combination(?).
I think it'd make accessibility a bit easier.
Hi, Roxane.

I am working on an angular wall corner cabinet, right now. Yesterday I placed the edge banding.
I am also working on a homemade rotary shelf that is giving too much to think about.

BTW, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
 
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I have seen that pic before. Are you remodeling your cabinets or just in the thinking/design stage of a remodel? Or...what?

In our kitchen, we built new diagonal corners. That blind spot really is a waste of space.

Our drawers pull straight out. And yes, there is still some wasted space, but it is what it is.

It seems to me, you would have to modify an adjacent cabinet or maybe both adjacent cabinets to build something like you have pictured.

Here are our drawers. 28 inch drawer slides (100# rating) allow the drawers to pull out fully.

Hope this helps.
Mike
 

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You could certainly use a stock cabinet of the appropriate width, just need to make fillers with one beveled edge to mate to the cabinet on each side. If you have the skills like Mike, it's just as easy to make up a false front and put in the supporting structure for the drawers - I think that a couple of the big cabinet manufacturers would sell you just a front for situations like that. One thing to bear in mind though, the countertop gets awful deep going into the corner, depending on the width of the "corner" cabinet, hard for a wife with short arms to reach back there.
 
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When I built my kitchen I went with the angled corners too. I like the drawers idea and I haven't gotten around to the lazy susans that were going in them so I'll have to look at that idea. The angled corners make for very deep corners and my wife is short and would never be able to reach all the way into the corner so I framed across the back and gave a flat that is about a foot across. I didn't think that all that area would look that good so I built raised platforms across the back which makes a good place to park cook books, canister sets, or something like a toaster oven which is what is in the other corner.

I do a lot of the cooking and I wanted a long and narrow kitchen so that I could turn around, take a step or two and be at the other side. My 36" cook top is centered in the end. The 2 corner drawers are good places for cooking tools and there was just enough extra room for the spice drawers on either side which I made with 4 x 4 blocks of red cedar and a Forstner bit about the same diameter as the spice bottles. I've been very pleased with the results. Besides looking different from the average kitchen it is very functional.

For some reason the forum won't let me upload pictures. I'll try again later.
 
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Exactly the same pictures that I couldn't upload before (as I scratch my head wondering why). The description of them is in the last post I made.
 

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KUDOS on the spice drawer...
 
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Thanks Roxanne. There's one on each side. I didn't show it in the picture but the cutting boards on either side are removable and slide under the backsplash so that grunge doesn't go under them. That was in case I had to refinish or replace them. There is a small rabbet on the counterside edge and they sit on the counter.

If I make another counter top I would still put the elevated platforms in the corners. I like the look better and the space is more usable. There is a toaster oven on the other one and you can use the oven and still have a counter to full of stuff in front of it which would be in the way if it were all flat. They were a bit of a challenge to fit mostly because of fitting to the exposed oak bevel on the splash but I feel they were worth the effort.
 
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