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Corner dead space turned into coffee bar

10 months ago

I am renovating my kitchen and would like any opinions on how to utilize the dead space in the corner and make something beautiful out of it. I'd like a coffee / breakfast bar but not exactly sure how. In the attached drawing I have gables on each side. Please assume there is nothing in that space ex. not what's shown here with the pullouts. Measurements are included!

Comments (11)

  • 10 months ago

    Do you have a picture of the actual space? This type of question cannot be adequately addressed without more information about the space as a whole. We need to see the "big picture" (and the actual) - so take pictures from various perspectives.

  • 10 months ago

    Might be too low for a coffee bar? You’d be bent over double to use it.


    If I’m reading the measurement correctly, that is a good sized space (2’ 5” wide?) An undercounter wine refrigerator would fit, or a undercounter ice maker (possibly side by side, if slim ones!), or a trash pullout, or a small microwave, or a mixer lift, or storage for pans and cutting boards, or simply drawers.

  • 10 months ago

    Thanks for your ideas! I'm knocking out the wall that separates the kitchen and dining room and making a very large kitchen. The drawing so far is misleading in that I originally thought of angled doors from gable to gable in the corner, but the space I'm loosing behind and to the sides is tremendous! I'm not wanting to put a lazy susan in that area, but to somehow use it all efficiently for a coffee bar. To the left of that corner is a 32" wide pantry and to the right will be the wall oven and microwave. If one could assume the drawing of the drawers wasn't there, it'd be a pretty big corner spot.


    Hope this clarifies my issue.

  • 10 months ago

    I can't find anything anywhere for blind corners with the exception of lazy Susan, pull out systems or putting a sink in that spot. There's got to be a better solution to utilizing it...

  • 10 months ago

    Here's a better visual of what I'm working with. This isn't mine, I will have a gable on the left as well. The true measurements of mine are in the first picture but can be made wider.

  • 10 months ago

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    10 months ago

    Corners need smart storage, and can only be accessed by one person at a time. BAD place for a coffee bar. 1st, there shouldn't BE a "dead space" in the corner if you have a modern corner cabinets. 2nd, that's a pretty horrible rendering that make it look incredibly dysfunctional. Because it is dysfunctional.

  • 10 months ago

    Your use of the word "gable" in a kitchen layout is confusing ...

  • 10 months ago

    What an odd design "feature". In my mind completelly useless. Maybe post the entire kitchen floor plan with all dimensions. How far along are you with this "kitchen renovation"?

  • 10 months ago

    What is behind the wall on the left side of this cabinet? For example, I have a blind corner in my kitchen - the corner has an exterior wall + a wall that divides the kitchen and the laundry room.


    Mine is set up as a "dead space/blocked corner" from the kitchen side - however, I can access the "dead space" from the laundry room side. I have drawers that are more useful than a blind corner cabinet would be.


    You could then run the counter top as a normal corner and have a lot of space for your coffee bar. You also could use the "dead space" to hold a small sink - I think I am going to do that when I renovate my kitchen. There will still be an access door in the laundry room in order to service the plumbing for the sink.


    I also am confused regarding your use of the word "gable" - that term is typically not used when discussing/describing a kitchen layout.

  • 10 months ago

    Kitchen corners do not exist in a vacuum. The most efficient use of a corner completely depends on the rooms around the kitchen (as Dani pointed out), the rest of the kitchen layout, and your storage plan.

    For example, we had a U-shaped kitchen in our last house, with the fridge on one leg, sink in the middle, and range on the other leg. After months of head-scratching, researching every corner storage arrangement I could find, I used two different solutions. One corner had a super susan for small appliances; the other was a dead corner, with drawers on each side. My kitchen wasn't very big, so I worried about "wasting" that space - but in my kitchen my greatest need was for more drawers. I had space elsewhere in the kitchen for the bulky or less-used items that often get stashed in a corner. We lived in that house for 8 years, and used the drawers flanking that corner every single day. It was by for the best solution for OUR kitchen and OUR needs.