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Making Kitchen Corners Functional

Kitchen corners are part of many kitchen designs and are often underutilized. Vestabul designers have tackled the corner many ways in their designs. The images here show some of their solutions.
Country: Canada
The ultimate in functional base corner storage is to install corner drawers. Cabinet manufactures offer a variety of hardware options to accomplish this. Depending on your needs the drawer heights can be varied.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Wooden revolving trays or "lazy susan" gives access to items in the back of the corner cabinet. Choosing the accessory in wood blends with wood interior cabinets.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Up grading your corner revolving baskets to metal adds strength to a standard "lazy susan". The Vestabul designer specified the larges accessory available to maximize the corner storage and accessibility.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
With recycling in all of our lives, the corner can be a great place to place specialized storage for this activity. Instead of installing a typical lazy susan specify a revolving recycling center instead.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
When a "blind" corner is planned into a kitchen design, the addition of a specialized basket system adds functionality. Individual wire baskets can organize items by use.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
When the "magic" corner accessory is fully accessed all of the contents of the corner cabinet are brought out into the kitchen. A great corner accessory and specified often by Vestabul designers.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
A cost effective way to get access to a "blind" corner in a kitchen is to install half moon styled baskets.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Instead of accessing the corner in this kitchen from the food prep side, the Vestabul designer specified a bank of drawers facing into the breakfast room. This solution allowed the placement of the sink closer to the corner and gave optimum access to items stored in the corner.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Full extension drawers on the breakfast room side of he kitchen gives the best access to a corner in a peninsula set up. Store items used on this side of the kitchen in these drawers.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
A large single sink was angled into the corner of this small kitchen. Originally the sink was under the window to the left but by moving it to the corner a large light filled counter could now be used as a prep zone. The corner cabinet above the sink was specified to be open shelves to make the...
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Recessing the dishwasher into the corner had the bonus of increasing the usable counter space to the right of the sink. Specifying a corner appliance garage above it provides storage for small appliances. The pop-up design of the appliance garage door offers an alternative to the standard tambour...
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Both the dishwasher and microwave have been installed into the corner of this Vestabul kitchen design. The upper cabinetry are extra deep because of the layout allowing the homeowners large entertaining tableware to be stored here. By raising the dishwasher the appliance is accessible to all...
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
When the design for this kitchen evolved to include installing the range in the corner a warming counter was placed behind it. By adding heat lamps into the void behind the hood the cook can now prepare food and place it there to keep warm before serving.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Finding a place for double ovens can be challenging. A favorite trick of Vestabul designers is to recess them into the corner. As in this example, drop off counter space can then be provided both sides of the ovens.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional
Recessing the wall oven and microwave in the corner allowed the Vestabul designer to provide the cook access to the ovens in the cooking zone without overwhelming the space. See more examples of this room in our Functional Entertaining project.
Making Kitchen Corners Functional