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Six Sexy Design Solutions for Utilizing "Blind Corner" Cabinet Space in the Kitchen
These make Lazy Susans look lazy
If you're not an apartment dweller like me, and thus have a kitchen big enough to support an L-shaped counter, then you have another problem: The dead space in the "blind corner" where the two axes meet. Luckily for you, there are a host of design companies with solutions for how to utilize this otherwise wasted space.
On the basic end, you've got Knape & Vogt's slide-out base blind corner unit:
It gets a bit sexier with County Kitchens' "Magic Corner" solution:
Waricorner's solution is similar if not identical, and their video gives you a better look at the mechanism:
Häfele's "Lemans" system, so named because their solution is shaped like the famous racetrack, goes full-on sexy:
This man is so excited to show this blind corner solution for drawers that he doesn't bother to mention the manufacturer (it's Germany's Blum):
And if none of these are high-tech enough for you, then check out Q4 Home Solutions' appliance lift:
Editor's Note: If you feel you've spotted some of these before on Core77, that's because you have—this is an updated version of an older post with some newer solutions added.
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that appliance lift seems really ingenious... they have even designed a way to fill the coffee pot without even raising it... you simply spill your water and it drains through the clearance gap. :-/
On another note, blind cabinets do make awesome forts, when you are 5... or even 50 if you are still nimble enough.
I was going to say something to that same effect. I can already hear my wife complain about how I don't clean the bread crumbs out of the cracks enough.
I saw the peanut pull outs a few months ago. Blew my mind! They really work smooth.
I have the Lemans. It works pretty well. Two things I like: 1) it's just two shelves before you pull it out, that is, you can just grab the things toward the front without having to interact with the mechanism 2) it's mechanically the simplest. Just shelves on a swing arm. No linear glides, and complex sliding and hinging things to get gummed up, etc.