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Default questions regarding two kitchen cabinets is a corner

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RicodJour wrote:

On Oct 29, 11:55*am, rlz wrote:
I am planning on building new cabinets for my kitchen. *In one corner,
there are two base cabinets that are positioned currently so that they
only touch in the front. (leaving a empty space in the actual
corner), *One cabinet is 15" in width, the other is 24" in width. *I
want to creat one cabinet (L-shaped) that combines these two cabinets
and the dead space.

My question is whether a Lazy Susan will work in this situation, since
the cabinets aren't the same width. *It would have to be off center.
Also are there other options that I'm missing?
I want to have easy access to the far back corner,


You could put in a smaller lazy susan, you'd just be giving up space
and that far back corner. Check out the Rev-a-shelf line of products.

Anything you do to get back into that corner will be trading off space
for improved access with reduced storage.

R


We put in a folding door that crosses both cabinet fronts, within is a
set of lazy suzan shelves in the pure corner. I angled the back to keep
things from falling off the back. In that blind back space are the
connection boxes for various wires (phone, ethernet, cable television,
etc, that can be reached by removing 2 screws, much better than tearing
out a wall. I matched the cabinets by using a narrow on on the wider
side. The narrow cabinet (actually 2 side by side) have a whole cabinet
slider that holds spice bottles in one and flour, salt, sugar in jars in
the other. This has allowed my wife to use the corner for the bread
machine, mixer and other baking related stuff and get to her ingredients
without having to walk much. That means I get more fresh bread. She uses
the corner cabinet for mixing bowls, strainers and smaller cake pans.

I would say that about 80 percent of the space in the area is well used.