What's the best way to utilize the space in the unreachable corners of my cabinets where they form an "L" shape. This is where perpendicular portions of the cabinet meet at the corners. If I use bins in those corners to hold items then I have to remove all my pots and pans to get to the bins.
That may be my only solution, but I'd like to hear other people's ideas because at the moment this is all wasted space that I could use. I've found things in those corners I didn't know I had.
By Betty
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We had the same problem with the corners. My husband cut a door in the back side and now have full use of it.
We stained it to match and looks very nice.
I can't do as Judsy222 suggested (if I'm understanding her correctly) If I cut into that I'd being cutting into the wall of a bath room and I'm in a rental.
Hello Betty, We have similar issues with corner cabinets. A couple of ideas to start:
1) You could remove any or all shelves and make or purchase a custom sized 1, 2, or 3 tier Lazy Susan that would greatly reduce the amount of wasted space.
I have two L shaped corners. When I had the cabinets installed they came with lazy susans in each corner. I don't know if they can be installed now with out replacing the corner cabinets.
You could use the caravan style of a lift up lid into the l-shaped corner - of course the down side is that you need to shift anything away from the corner if you need to access it. The ones I am thinking of have a basket that you can lift out.
I found some large (24-30 inch) Rubbermaid style lazy susans at a garage sale. I put 2 on each shelf and can fit a few canisters in between. What a difference.
I use that hard-to-reach space to hold my emergency supplies: bottles of water, non-perishable foods, things like that. On the same token, we all have unused space at the top of our closets, tall spaces between the top shelf and the closet ceiling. I installed an extra shelf up there and that's where I store other emergency supplies such as blankets and linens in the top of the linen closet, cleaning supplies in the top of the broom closet, extra clothing at the top of clothes closets.
I have lazy susan's in my corner cabinets and I hate them. My house is about 30 years old and I guess these cabinets are too. The two tiered top, susan is coming down and the bottom tier is almost laying on the floor of the cabinet. There is no way to get the old out without sawing them apart and then no way to put new ones in and the pole is metal pipe. I used to have just the deep L-shaped cabinets in another home and I just put things in boxes or baskets that I could slide out or lift out, like the others are saying I didn't store everyday items in it! Good luck!
Under cupboard has turntable, upper ones I store things in the back of the L that I do not need often. I store my pots/pans in the drawer of the stove, the big soup kettles, etc in the basement on shelves with the crock pots, etc.
Sorry, didn't know you were in rental. My counter is L shaped so we could get to back side of it. We cut into the back of cabinet.
Judy,
I would love to do that to my unreachable cupboard space. How did y'all do It? Could you please post pictures of the finished door?
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