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Has anyone seen the Infinity Drawer in person?

last year
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It looks fantastic, and I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually seen this unicorn: https://riverwoodcraft.com/infinitycabinet/


I see a couple potential problems:

- You'd have to have inset drawers.

- It's only available from one company, so it'd be hard to get.

- It is a 42" base cabinet; aren't most corner cabinets 36"? So it would require some scootching-around.

- I assume it's expensive.


Thoughts?



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    It looks annoying to me. I had a conventional lazy susan in my beach cottage and when I opened it I had access to everything, I didn’t have to remember which shelf my desired item was on and I didn’t have to open each level individually. Is this different? Yes, but to what end?

    It’s kind of like the French door fridge - pretty but now you have to open two doors to get into the fridge. A French door fridge has one great application: kitchens with narrow aisleways. I don’t see what purpose the Infinity Drawer serves. Is it pretty? Sure. Is it more functional? It’s actually less functional for me.

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    Just do corner drawers if you really want drawers.




  • last year

    Ok, that is incredibly fun. And, I love a great lazy susan. BUT, I love a lazy susan so much, I want it to take up the entire height of my lowers so I can fit taller things on it. Therefore, I wouldn't want to sacrifice the top to a drawer.

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    If you think about it, it's the same as a lazy susan, just three "shelves" instead of two (the drawers) but shorter storage and more space taken up with the needed drawer hardware.

    I think it's one of those things that looks cool but the execution may not be as useful unless you need shallow storage.

    As Kendrah said, the advantage of a lazy or super susan is that you have taller storage. It also uses the entire space with no space taken up by drawer and similar hardware and everything is always in front.

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    Oh corner base drawers and the lazy susan cabinet look like fun. Have no corner cabinets in my kitchen its a galley kitchen so parallel. If anyone has ideas smaller kitchen organization with old school base cabinets with none fancy base drawers. So reach into the back without pulling my back all for ideas.

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    Kendrah, in our last home, we didn't have room for as many drawers as I would have liked, and one of the goals of our remodel was to get stuff off the counters, so I really wanted a knife drawer. We put in an angled base cabinet with a drawer above, and had the cabinet maker position the super susan shelf so we could fit our tallest small appliance (a rice cooker) on one of the turntables. The other turntable had less height, but we had plenty of shorter things to use it for.

    Katherine, I retrofit pullouts in my Mom's apartment, which solved the problem you describe. I used Blum Metabox hardware, and had the local lumberyard cut all the pieces exactly to size (I don't have a table saw).

    Before:

    After:



  • last year

    I like the concept of the infinity drawer, it seems better than a lazy susan where you have that door to contend with. (better is no corner, or if there must be a corner, have open space on the other side so that corner cabinet can face out, and have drawers or cabinets.)

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    I agree, bpath - but unfortunately, not all kitchens can access a corner from the other side. Our last house had a U-shaped kitchen - one corner was on an outside wall, the other had a bathtub on the other side of the wall.

    Our current kitchen is an L with an island, on an outside wall. This time there is a bathroom vanity on the other side of the wall.

    In fact, the reason there are SO many different solutions proposed for kitchen corners is because many of us don't have the option of eliminating them.

    I wracked my brain for months to best utilize the corners in our last kitchen. One was the angled corner described above; the other was a dead corner with drawers on both sides. There is no perfect corner solution for every kitchen - the best answer depends on what needs to be stored in that space.

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    With a "lazy" susan, the door is the same as the "infinity drawer" drawer front -- the door is attached to the shelves and rotates into the cabinet. So, no separate door to contend with.

    "Super" susans, OTOH, do usually require a door.

    Lazy susan = center pole, rotating shelves attached to the door

    Super susan = no center pole, rotating shelves sit on a shelf so door is separate

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    You don't necessarily have to have all inset cabinets. I have seen lazy susans in kitchens with overlay cabinets. Does it look different? Yes.

    My kitchen has old-style 3/8" partial overlay partial inset doors and drawers because of the era of the house and because I like a thin fact profile, but I have to have inset on the DW and integrated refrigerator, and they are made to look like 3/8" partial overlay by projecting a bit and having the rounded off front edges.

    The house a grew up in had 3/8" partial overlay and the lazy susan was inset but radiused like a partial overlay door.

    I think you can intentionally mix doorstyles if it makes sense, too.