Pull Down Baskets for Kitchen Cupboards

jazminkennedy

Hiya, i wonder if someone can help. I've just had my kitchen fitted but all the wall cupboards are very high up!! I've not been blessed with height:o but had to come to a mutual agreement with my husband who has been blessed with too much height!:mad: I've googled sooo many random things and in the end came accross this pull down basket thing: http://www.3dkitchens.net/catalog/Pull_Down_Baskets.html

These baskets are ideal for me and would mean i don't have to use the footstool ever again! But then i saw the price!:eek: Where could i buy something like this at a reasonable price? I'd need at least 4! Or would it be easy to make my own somehow?

Plz advise....

jazminkennedy

Anybody???

Mojisola

I've never seen those before and the price is shocking!

I think you'd struggle to make something like that and be certain it would be safe. You don't want everything to come raining down on you when you pull the shelves out.

Unless someone else comes up with a brilliant idea, buy one at a time to spread the cost.

jazminkennedy

Thank you for the reply. Deffo need to investigate it further, i really cannot access any of the top cupboards!

CKdesigner

Hi

These are the ones! Again rather expensive but might be just what you need.

We did a kitchen for a dwarf a couple of years ago, the base units were half the normal height, the gap between the wall units and worktop was much shorter and we used a couple of these pull down systems. There were many other things that we had to consider like the position of the tap and layout of the hob, not just make things shorter.

CK

Jonesya

They appear to be made by Hafele:
http://www.hafele.co.uk/Hafele35a1/Templates/Hafele/browse.asp?newrecordset=yes&classname=Pull+Down+Baskets&classlevel=5765

You might be able to shave a few quid of the price - some of the UK dealers have them for a few quid less.

They do a single tier shelf which is about half the price ~£100/unit - use a lowering shelf for the top shelf only?

Bogof_Babe

Couldn't you arrange your kitchen so that things you hardly ever need are kept in the high cupboards, and everyday things in the low ones?

Or get one of those grabber gadgets that are meant for the disabled, and just keep lightweight items, e.g. cereal packets, up there, so you can hook them down when needed.

Both those cage things look like daylight robbery.