Kitchen Corner Cabinets – (Five of Five)
28 March 2008
The End of All Our Exploring
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time.”
—T. S. Eliot
So, now we have come to the end of our journey, to end pretty much where we began. We have a blind corner in our kitchen. We do not want to reach around it to get the stuff that is back there. We do not know what else to do with this corner.
The problem with all the solutions we examined, though, is that none of them really solves the problem. All they do is add to the cost of the kitchen. They either add very little extra space (in the case of some Lazy Susans) or no space at all.
Sometimes the best solutions are the easy ones. It just takes us a while to get to them.
I originally began this search into blind corner solutions for my own benefit, as I want to make a new kitchen for us, and one of the things I most hate about our current kitchen is that blind corner. Our kitchen is very tiny, and we are not going to remodel the house, so we would like to utilize that space. Because I will be doing most of the work, price is really not much of an issue with me, but what I most wanted to have was not just a solution, but the best solution. To find it, I went to a number of sites for professional cabinetmakers.
I was astonished to read the responses of those who responded to the question, “What is the best solution to the blind corner problem?” A fair number of them said, “I don’t make them anymore because, frankly, they’re a waste of my time and my client’s money.”
Really, if one is willing to splurge on a solution that makes the most of the available space, then my recommendation is a drawer bank, as there is no more efficient storage method, and they are much easier to access in the tight corner that constitutes every blind corner that ever was. And if the thought of all that blocked off space just drives you nuts, you can still put it to use. Ask your cabinetmaker to make a secret compartment in that blind corner. Hey, it might be just the place for the wife’s jewelry—or the money you’ll save by not investing in blind corner “solutions.”
Joseph
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July 5th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Thank you for the awesome idea!!!