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10 years ago

We are selecting cabinets for kitchen and trying to decide between a lazy susan corner cabinet and pull out corner drawers...whats the best option?

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10 years ago

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Corner drawers, for sure. Some complain that drawers waste space. We disagree. A bank of four corner drawers provides nearly as much usable
space as a typical lazy susan — and the space is much, much easier to get to. These don't have to be those fancy v-gront drawers. Just turn a modified drawer cabinet 45 degrees.

We dislike doors on lower cabinets for a variety of reasons — and this
dislike extends to doors hiding lazy susans in corner cabinets. But, if you are going to use lazy susans, make sure the trays are deep -- so stuff will not fall off in the back where it always seems to get wedged. We make our own, but a good alternative is available from Omaga National.

For more on alternatives for cabinet corners, see "Solving Corner Cabinet Woes" in Cabinet Basics: Part 2.

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User
10 years ago
100% personal preference. What do you want to store in the corner?
beachem
10 years ago
Whenever I see those corner drawers, I think of major dust collector.
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lferg92
10 years ago
I have the 36" Super Susan and I absolutely love it! On my other corner, I have a blind with a half Lazy Susan, I like that one too, but it doesn't hold nearly as much.
suzanne_sl
10 years ago
I agree that it depends on what you intend to store there. I keep big things like the big soup pot, the crock pot, the wok, and food processor there. None of those are going to fall off a shelf and it's a great place to tuck them away. If you're thinking of can storage or smaller items, perhaps a drawer would be better.
AnnKH
10 years ago
Super susan, not lazy susan. The difference is that a lazy susan is supported on a center pole, which limits both how you arrange things, and how much weight it can hold. a super susan has turntables mounted on shelves, no pole.

I have a super susan in an angled cabinet, with a drawer above. The SS holds all my small appliances, as well as large colanders. I'm pretty sure all of those things would not fir in the drawers StarCraft showed - there is too much wasted space along the sides of the drawers.

Stan asked the most important question - the best corner solution for you depends on your specific storage needs.

A third alternative is to close off the corner completely. I have two corners - one has the SS, the other is empty, with drawers on each side. I studied the problem long and hard, and of all the corner solutions I examined, closing the corner off made the most sense for me, on that side of the kitchen.
huango
10 years ago
Ditto AnnKH.

I dead-corner mine so I could put in a frequently used 3-drawer base cabinet.

I have a the Ikea ?corner cabinet (it pulls out very long), and I wish I had Dead-corner that side also and just put in a 18" 3-drawer base cabinet. I hardly use the blind corner pull out.

Amanda
scrappy25
10 years ago
the super susan or lazy susan cabinet is fantastic for storing small appliances.
lferg92
10 years ago
I saw a cool corner solution in a reveal post by Deedles last night, she used drawers that slide out with pull out shelves in the dead space. It may be worth checking out, scroll down through the photos. Link: corner solution