On 2/26/2013 8:28 AM, dpb wrote:
Elder son called yesterday and posed a ?? -- I have a couple of ideas
but they're I think excessively complicated so throw this out for Karl,
whoever...

Upper kitchen cabinets in his house were built in place w/ one wall a
set of straight-line cabinets and the 90-degree wall then butted against
the face of these. The first cabinet is then open to the end wall while
the second is closed at the face of the first. This, of course, creates
a sizable area in the corner that is very difficult to use.

Ok, this IIRC amounts to about 1 square foot times the height of the
cabinet. minus the portion that is taller than the distance between the
counter top and the bottom of the cabinet. In most cases this is about
1.5 cubic feet of possible extra accessible storage.


Son's idea/request was for a mechanism that if cut out the bottom of the
hidden area could drop a set of shelves down for access then lift it
back up -- his request was for suitable hardware design to latch and
more importantly, allow the movement w/ support so would be more-or-less
balanced w/ varying weight.

Typically there is not even a good solution for this situation on the
lower cabinets which afford approximately 4 times as much space. Most
add-ons still waste a lot of that space for the hardware.

IMHO if the space is accessible through the cabinet door you will not
get any more storage than that.