Nothing is more rewarding than completing your kitchen renovation and finding that all your items have a place to rest. Good storage in a kitchen is more than having lots of cabinets. Even though all kitchens have cabinets, they don’t always have strategic storage that lets a kitchen be practical as possible.
Having a dream kitchen depends on the storage features and accessories you place in your kitchen cabinets. Below are 4 essential features to maximize the storage potential of your kitchen cabinets efficiently.
Drawers And Sliding Shelves
Many homeowners crimp by picking simple door cabinets rather than drawer cabinets. Even though they are more expensive, stacked drawer cabinets make your kitchen more efficient. Every kitchen should have one stacked drawer cabinet for every double-door cabinet. Drawers are easily accessible and flexible in a kitchen for many reasons:
Ergonomic Storage
Drawers come out to meet you. You don’t need to bend or squat to see what’s in them; you just have to pull them out. As we age, our backs are more sensitive to lifting, so drawers are perfect for people that can’t lift off reach.
Flexible Storage
Drawers can hold anything in your kitchen and be put together in a cabinet in various ways: three or four drawers stacked in a base cabinet or a single door sitting on top of doors that reveal shelves. A three-drawer stack cabinet is efficient, with two large lower drawers and a smaller top drawer. Top drawers are usually used for smaller items like silverware and utensils. But, you can use the larger drawers for things like food, pots and pans, small appliances, lids, backing/cooking sheets, dishes, and plastic ware.
Easy Storage
One motion compared to two in a kitchen will speed up your cooking time. To operate drawers, you need just pull, but you must use a door/roll-out arrangement that requires two motions (open the door and remove the roll-out shelf). This easy motion is why homeowners prefer drawers.
Clean Lines
Drawers create horizontal lines that are attractive in any kitchen style, whether with contemporary, traditional, transitional, farmhouse, or rustic. Various three-drawer base cabinets in a kitchen layout will be more beneficial.
Trash Pull-out
Are you doing a kitchen remodel or building a new kitchen and planning to put your old plastic trash bin to the side of the island? Instead, put your trash can behind a door. No one should be able to see or smell your trash can.
The best kitchen storage solution to adopt is to have a pull-out trash unit inside a cabinet where no one can see them. You should also have a two-bin trash unit, one for regular trash and the other for recycling. Most double units occupy 18 inches of space and have a soft-close mechanism for easy operation. Most are short, so they can easily fit into the base cabinet with a top drawer.
Vertical Dividers
Vertical dividers help store flat objects like cooling racks, cutting boards, large lids, cookie sheets, pie dishes, muffin tins, baking pans, and platters. You can easily adjust many units allowing you to rearrange the dividers in whatever way is more efficient.
You can place the vertical dividers in the upper portion of tall cabinets like an oven cabinet, or pantry. They can also be used in narrow base cabinets 9 to 12 inches wide where a drawer stack doesn’t look practical.
Spice Pull-out
We all use different kinds of spices in kitchen: garlic seasoning, salt, paprika, pepper, and the list goes on. We collect spices every time we try a new recipe. But organizing spices in a wall cabinet is tricky. Stacking small spice cabinets on a shelf can be hard to see what you have without removing the entire shelf.
Instead, you can opt for a 12-inch-wide pullout cabinet adjacent to your cooking surface. If you have a lot of spices, you can even go for two cabinets, one on each side, for a symmetrical look. Spice pull-out cabinets that have tiered shelves are the best, letting you store jars you can easily see.
Conclusion
The correct cabinet accessories and storage units make a huge difference between an attractive kitchen and a functional one. Unless you do your homework and communicate your wishes, kitchen contractors and cabinet suppliers will usually equip your blue kitchen cabinets with features that increase their profits. Luckily for you, Kitchen Cabinet Design makes customized cabinets according to your needs.
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