Following up on my blog the other day about kitchen design. If you read the blog from the other day, you'll know that I worked for a time as a kitchen designer.
I want to address in this blog the extra goodies that you can fill your kitchen with.
1. In your base cabinets try to find a place for a tray base cabinet. These cabinets are generally 9 or 12 inches wide and are for storing cookie sheets and other trays. These are great for keeping the odd sized items stored.
2. For an inside base corner location get a wire rack lazy susan.
3. A 3 inch spice rack pull out filler is great for storing all those tiny spice bottles. This can be ordered for base or upper locations. Be careful when considering the upper version as the bottles will be stored up high and will be harder to reach for shorter people.
4. A base pantry cabinet is great for storing lots of food densely without taking up valuable vertical space that can cut through your counter space. (the more counter space the better and cleaner the kitchen will look)
5. Recylcing bins or trash bins on metal slide outs under the sink are a great way to hide the garbage bins out of sight.
6. A cutlery organizer drawer is a very good thing. Be sure to get the one with the wooden drawer within a drawer to double your organization possibilities.
In my next version of this blog-string will be how to build a banquette seating area for a breakfast nook. Keep posted.
Great tips! Thanks for sharing. By the way I currently have a breakfast banquette and we love it. It seats 6-8 comfortably and is a great place to play cards or socialize. My only complaint is the built in seating was not initially created as storage underneath. A problem I easily fixed with a saw and some hinges. Now I have plenty of room to store all those holiday dishes and serving trays and stuff.