Kitchen
5. Good-quality fittings If you’re considering which items to spend more on in your kitchen, it’s worth paying attention to the fittings. A standard cabinet can be lifted by a beautiful handle, while a basic sink can look high-end with the addition of a well-chosen tap. The fittings in your kitchen are going to be used a lot, so it makes sense to invest in quality to ensure they’re strong, durable and nice to touch.
2. Souvenir mugs Whether it was an ill-advised holiday souvenir, or an ‘ironic’ secret santa present, the comedy mugs cluttering up the back of the cabinet have to go. Keep your favourites, display them nicely, and send the rest with their comedy slogans off to the nearest charity shop. You’ll probably get more pleasure out of a tiny collection of beautifully made mugs you use every day than you will a plethora of garish ones you feel you can’t throw away but have no intention of ever using.
Appliance garages Also sometimes called appliance closets, these are cabinets designed around size requirements for mixers, blenders, toasters and pretty much any other small appliance you may have and want to store. They put those appliances within easy reach when you need them and help tuck away and hide them when you don’t, keeping your kitchen tops free of clutter.
Upper cabinet storage below With open shelving and windows where our china and glassware storage used to be, lower cabinets need to work much harder and smarter these days. When outfitted like this, it makes it easy. Well, fairly easy – think of it as getting some extra squats into your workout when you need to grab something.
A pullout under the kitchen sink What Lies Beneath is an ominous and scary movie title that also applies to the space under the kitchen sink. I don’t know about you, but no matter how hard I try, this area winds up a jumble of dishwashing soap, sponges, detergent, trash bags and a ridiculous amount of paper towels. (I keep forgetting to cancel that bulk order on Amazon Subscribe and Save!) Most disturbingly, the fire extinguisher winds up getting buried in the back instead of being front and centre where it should be. A pullout drawer would be so much better than kneeling and blindly digging around down there with one hand.
Tiered pullout insert Lids and containers together. Traditional cabinets are simply not set up to help us keep lids and containers together. They become jumbled space hogs in upper cabinets, and lids disappear into the lowers, never to be found again. Organising food storage containers is always a challenge. This tiered pullout insert will ensure that you’ll never be digging through a mess looking for the right lid again.
Easy cutting This pullout is so clever. It has a nice extension for chopping at counter height, and when both drawers are pulled out, you can swipe the waste directly through the hole into the bin.
drawers at island area?
. A place for everything behind closed doors The fun of this kitchen photo is imagining just how soothing it would be to close those cabinet doors once you’d finished cooking. You’d be able to return the space to an uninterrupted run of crisp, painted units with absolutely no hint of the culinary clutter that may or may not be hiding within. But the beauty of these cabinets is the attention to detail: the microwave has been neatly slotted in at perfect access height for ease of use, and food storage has been squeezed in all around it. With tall shelves either side for bottles, a low shelf above for small jars and packets, and two satisfying rows of wine bottle storage either side of a central run of drawers, this cabinet is a mini work of art.
1. Perfectly tailored shelves The owner of this pantry cabinet must walk around in a state of bliss, because this is one beautifully organised food storage system. Every inch has been utilised, with storage baskets for loose items, shelves for tins and packets, and door racks for small bottles and spices. Even the labels match up and face straight forwards. There’s no mixing of crockery and food stuffs in this kitchen, either. Generous cabinets to the left house stacks of neat white crockery, while drawers below are just waiting for rows of gleaming silverware to be neatly lined up, leaving the pantry cabinet free for all those beautiful food packets, tins and jars. Bliss.
Tuck the electronic gadgets inside with their plugs?
Hanging storage?
if we do no-slide door (open door towards service yard?)
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