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Cleverest Solution For Inside Cabinet Corner?

21 days ago

If there is one thing I loathe more than, well, most other things, it is the Inside Cabinet Corner. Too many decades of getting down on my knees, crawling abjectly into the darkness, groping for a can of tomato paste, emerging with a box of baking powder and a back spasm.

The lazy susan did not help things. All the tomato paste cans hopped off the carousel and hid in the unreachable back corners.

The articulated pull out wire racks did not help things. The tomato paste cans wedged themselves in the mechanism jamming both rack and cabinet door.

Nothing has helped. It is hopeless. The only solution is to fill the corner with 148 cans of tomato paste, so that the first row is always exposed.

Perhaps modern technology has found an answer? Maybe some LLM has designed the perfect inside corner mechanism?

I so thought, when I saw an amazingly clever inside corner cabinet that makes every bit of the volume easily accessible. Then I realized it was an AI video, today’s version of pestilence and plague.

So let me ask you, most of whom are not AI bots. What is the very best, most practical, durable, usable, efficient solution for an inside cabinet corner?

Comments (19)

  • 20 days ago

    depends on how critical every storage spot is within your plan. A default is a blind end and make the other side a wider stack of drawers.... as here....youd make the drawers right of sink a wider dimension..... if you installed a cabinet w a blind section to left of dishwasher.


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    are you saying none of these will work..even w larger lesser used pots/ crockery as opposed to small cans etc. ?


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  • PRO
    20 days ago

    The corner is always a fight between accessibility and volume of storage. The 36" Super Susan is the winner for both, for cabinets with equal distance on either side of the corner. A 33" has 9" doors, not the 12" doors of the 36", and is the one that only fits canned goods. A 36" Super Susan fits all your small appliances on the turntable. It's often adapted in custom to being a tall corner pantry with turntable, as it holds so much. The turntables can be segmented, with pull out sections, but while that adds organization, segmentation reduces volume of storage.


    David An overused his engineer's brain to consider the variables in this post. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6430189/corner-cabinet-analysis-part-ii

  • 20 days ago

    Lots of good reviews on this Amazon item.

    Leeden Lazy Susan Organizer for 26" Diameter Corner Lazy Susan, Plastic Kitchen Cabinet Storage Bins with Handle, 4 Packs, 1/8 Wedge - Food Safe, BPA Freehttps://a.co/d/09JtkwFT

  • 20 days ago

    My corner is a corner shaped shelf about 15” above the bottom (inside ) of the cabinet. Giant stainless bowl in the bottom corner and extra large fry pay and some cake pans, etc. I’ve had the same issues with the lazy susan, and cleaning behind that lazy susan 🤬

  • 20 days ago

    I have to add you are a great comic writer! I was reading out loud to my husband and getting short of breath from laughing 😂

  • 20 days ago
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    I have 2 inside corner cabinets, one is a super susan and the other has one of the Hafele pull-outs, but the real trick is to have the rest of the kitchen be large enough that the things you place in these corner cabinets rarely ever need to be retrieved!

    The Hafele one has a few unique pots/pans that my mother thinks I should have, but I never use. The super susan has a few small appliances that I rarely use and some tupperware.

  • 20 days ago

    We have one corner cabinet and it has super susans like in herbflavors last picture. In the 8 years we have lived here we have not had any issues with things falling off. We had one in our previous house where we lived 15 years and never had these issues either. We keep canned tomato products, jarred sauces, bread crumbs, mexican sauces and taco shells on ours. The rental house we stayed in for a year had one of those Lemans thingies and I couldn't stand it.

  • 20 days ago
    last modified: 20 days ago

    I looked into adapting an electric lift (the kind used for big TVs that retract down into the console) to make an appliance, let's say a mixer, magically rise from the inside corner. I also looked at adapting a motorized display case (the kind that has shelves that circulate up, forward, down, back on a track - used to see them in jewelry stores). None of these seemed terribly practical. In my own kitchen, it ended up being easier to simply have no inside corners.

  • 20 days ago
    last modified: 20 days ago

    “Cleverest Solution For Inside Cabinet Corner?” I agree with you John.

    Design your kitchen so you don’t have one 😊 I got rid of mine.

  • 20 days ago
    last modified: 20 days ago

    One of the great things about moving 10 years ago, was going from a U shaped kitchen to a galley kitchen. Hated, hated the upper and lower corners in the previous home, with two lower corner lazy Susans. I won’t even get into the horror of the corner upper cabs!

    I love the wide galley. Long, straight counters, everything just a few steps apart…and the convenience of the ”ice-water-stone-fire” setup. No corners!

  • 20 days ago

    I also looked at the central island kitchen layout - where everything is in one giant center island which, obviously, has only outside corners. Some commercial kitchens are like this. My kitchen is not large enough and, while it could work when each person has a fixed station, it doesn’t make sense for a single cook doing everything from washing dishes to fetching food from the refrigerator.

  • 20 days ago

    Our house had a lazy susan in the kitchen and the corners of the cabinet were blocked out on the inside.


    Our hall bath medicine cabinet was a triple decker 18" lazy susan that was a complete circle and the inside back of that cabinet was radiused plywood that almost touched the edges of the round shelves. That held a ton of things.

    So things that are imperfect can be improved upon.

  • 20 days ago

    The lazy susan storage terrifies 5'2" me thinking about cans falling behind and being lost forever. My inside corner floor cabinet stores pizza pans and large cutting boards. Also the huge wood salad bowl that was a wedding gift for my parents 1948 that I use every few years.

  • 20 days ago

    I adored and miss my lower cabinet lazy susan from my former kitchen. I never had anything fall off of it. It was the kind where you push the door in and it spins - no bi-fold door, those suck.


    I hate to throw this wrench in your tomato can plan, but why not store larger objects down there that won't fall off of a shelf and be lost in the black hole? I used mine for my food processor, blender, mixing bowls, and glass food storage containers. Nothing every jumped overboard.

  • 20 days ago
    last modified: 20 days ago

    And think what mischief the cans may be doing back there. What might they get up to, left unwatched for years? Breeding, evolving, scheming, conspiring. Do you ever hear mysterious sounds at night?

    Larger things, sure, but they have smaller loose accessories that like to jump ship. The Robocoupe has different blades and attachments, the Cuisinart has multiple whisks and hooks, when impatient people spin the Susan all those little things escape overboard and its back spasm time again. I do like the idea of a lazy susan with tall sides or a close-fitting inner cabinet surface.

  • PRO
    19 days ago

    Earthquake putty down a basket for parts and bits on the turntable if you are worried they will jump off the bridge. The Super Susans rest on a support shelf, and have the smooth ball bearings with higher sides and don't tend to create enough movement turbulence to dislodge things overboard.

  • 19 days ago

    Never store small things in a corner, is what. I quite like my 50 year old pie cut lazy susan (with a nice curved inner wall 1/4" from the edge of the turntables). I only keep large things in it, that are needed on a weekly or less basis rather than daily. Food processer, spare large soup bowls, loaf pans, pie tins, funnels, that sort of thing.

  • 19 days ago

    I have had and loved pie-cut Lazy Susans. I now have and love a wire corner pullout. Nothing ever fell off either installation. What I don’t love is a blind corner cabinet. Nearly dislocated my shoulder too many times.

    I store my cans of tomatoes in my pantry, on non-moving shelves.

  • 19 days ago

    I never store my food processor blades in the food processor. I have a tupperware container with them stored separately. No jumping ship there. And hooks and whisks never jumped ship for me.

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