Who makes the best kitchen corner cabinet solution?

googler

OH has decreed that we're getting a new kitchen.

The current one has two corner floor cabinets in the "traditional" style with one door covering half the cabinet, and the other half disappearing and inaccessible behind the run of units at 90 degrees to it.

There seem to be loads of novel solutions these days, with storage racks on runners, drawers which pull out at 45 degrees, etc.

Anyone got any favourites, or ones that they had fitted which proved exceptionally practical or useful?

Dean000000

Kidney bean swing out thing ... less overall storage but brilliantly accessible on a daily basis

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Carrot007

Dean000000 wrote: »

Kidney bean swing out thing ... less overall storage but brilliantly accessible on a daily basis

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THIS!


I have one in my kitchen. Was from howdens but I'm sure they all do it.


Also can fit pizza tray etc under at bottom. Flasks at the bottom corner and have a double plug for various things (fridge, hob ignition? (could be extractor and not fridge, I should see which ones are where sometime!)) at the top corner (the accessible side!).


Works great for pans and stuff!

Doozergirl

https://www.diy-kitchens.com/showunit.asp?id=1019692#.XFDZOaSnyaM

I dislike pull outs. We have a kidney unit and have never really used it. It's the junk cupboard. The pull-out buts also cost a lot of money.

Whereas a corner larder unit can be genuinely useful!

trailingspouse

In one kitchen we had a sort of double-jointed door that fitted the L-shape of the corner unit. You could open the whole door and access the whole cupboard. The only issue was that the far corner was difficult to reach - but you need somewhere to store the things that only come out at Christmas!!


I find those swing out things are great until you need to clean the cupboard out.

EachPenny

Doozergirl wrote: »

I dislike pull outs. We have a kidney unit and have never really used it. It's the junk cupboard. The pull-out buts also cost a lot of money.

Agreed. All the clever devices leave you with lots of wasted space and cost silly money.

It makes more sense to use the harder to reach space at the back for the things you never really use, and make use of the accessible space at the front for anything else.

getmore4less

If you can avoid a corner even better.

if enough space a walkin.
https://www.diy-kitchens.com/kitchen-units/tall/walkinlarder/1970mm-high-walk-in/

If not L shape corner with corner carousel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1n-lH2SK4k

(around 1:25 in)

Some ideas here
https://ideastand.com/kitchen-corner-cabinet-storage-ideas/

aylesby

You need to know how deep and wide you need. Then understand the left and right terminology. You might find a used one on Ebay for £50 but ours was £200. The video showed how to fit it in three minutes it took our joiner two hours.
Our unit is very useful and we can find things in the corner.

-taff

I had a very small ikea kitchen in the flat, the corner had to be utilised and I had a corner cupbaord with a pie chart carousel halfway up and on the bottom. I used it to store the saucepans. It worked well.

pinklady21

Ooh a Magic Corner! I have lusted after one of those for years!!
(Note to self - get out more)

Fire_Fox

trailingspouse wrote: »

In one kitchen we had a sort of double-jointed door that fitted the L-shape of the corner unit. You could open the whole door and access the whole cupboard. The only issue was that the far corner was difficult to reach - but you need somewhere to store the things that only come out at Christmas!!


I find those swing out things are great until you need to clean the cupboard out.

We have this arrangement, it is the best corner solution I have lived with. Cleaning out is no worse than a regular base unit. Most of us have high-days-and-holidays kitchenalia to stash at the back.

**just realised our only other 'regular' base units are ( under the sinks) cleaning and cat food! So might be a poor comparison, sorry.