Donna Dufresne Transitional Kitchen, Portland

A built-in like this encroaches on square footage by mere inches and provides ample previously unused storage in return.

9. In an Angled Corner CabinetA convenient option for large kitchens where deep corners will otherwise go unused.Pros: Fills a corner and faces into the room for ease of use. Makes better use of a deep cabinet that might otherwise contain hard-to-reach items. Con: Some space will be unused behind the microwave and behind other appliances or drawers.Construction considerations: Typically a corner cabinet is planned during construction and not easily added after. If your cabinet system or company provides corner cabinet options, the cost shouldn’t be much different than that of a standard cabinet.More on HouzzRead more kitchen storiesBrowse kitchen photos for ideasFind a kitchen remodeler on Houzz

94. Beef up your corners. The convention with corners is to use clever pullout cabinets designed to fill the space. But sometimes you need a corner to give you room for things that won’t fit around that kind of arrangement. Instead, create a flat wall across the space, as shown here.

For drawers, a pentagon shape won’t work, so the usable cabinet interior is still essentially a rectangle, but it’s angled outward. In this case, there will be some wasted slivers of space around the drawers, but the drawers themselves will be be easy to use with no complicated pullouts required. Again, the trade-off comes down to preference: You get a little less square footage for storage, but also less hassle.

corner cab in scullery for micro, etc

Diagonal corner cabinets? And microwave cubby

Corner space for small appliances built in

Could something like this work right of the sink?