Making Life Easier in Your Kitchen

We live in an age devoted to convenience, organization, and every possible way to save us time.
If your current kitchen has been in your home for longer than fifteen years, there are numerous options, accessories, and newly designed cabinets available to make your time in the kitchen so much more efficient.

There are some exceptions to my statement above. For instance, a Lazy Susan inside base and wall corner cabinets have been available for longer than fifteen years. However, the quality and smoother functionality has improved dramatically. Better cabinet lines mount quality wood revolving shelves right on a wood shelf base. Years ago, a Lazy Susan was either composed of metal or plastic shelves spaced on a center pole and installed into the top and bottom of the cabinet. Upgraded units like the old ones are still available as interior accessories after the fact. However, the new wooden rotating Susans are deeper and wider providing more storage space than ever.

Pots and pans used to be stored in the bottom drawer of a stove or even worse in the "blind corner cabinet" next to the stove's location. This cabinet becomes a big black hole swallowing anything unlucky enough to be stored there. You have to be a contortionist to access needed items or call for one of your smaller kids to crawl in to retrieve it. The good news, those days are over too. We have been rescued by numerous options. New corner cabinets have special shelving units that can be pulled out in front of their door allowing a shelf deeper in the cabinet to slide forward. No space is lost and accessing anything you need is at your fingertips.
               

My favorite pots and pan cabinet is a 3 Drawer Base Cabinet. These cabinets are available in widths from twelve inches up to thirty six, maybe even into forty inch units. Twenty four to thirty six 3 Drawer Bases are most popular for this application. The two deep bottom drawers will hold all your pots and pans other than truly deep stock pots. The shallow top drawer is perfect for pot holders, spatulas, spoons, ladles, and pancake turners. Anything you need to cook on your stove fits perfectly in this cabinet. If you prefer a cook top rather than a stove, the shallow top drawer can serve as the mounting area for the cook or range top.

Some people like to add wooden internal accessories to these three drawer bases to separate their knives, spices, and cooking utensils. You can also add special holders to secure plates in the drawers.

                                        
Recycling is the norm now. Most of us have never liked having the trash can visible in our kitchen even though it had to be. New cabinet design includes cabinets designed to pull out with your trash can installed inside. Very popular are the combo trash and recycle cabinets. Generally a eighteen inch cabinet is average. However, if space is at a premium, a fifteen inch one with one barrel would suffice.

  
Next week I will continue telling you even more goodies that you can add to make life simpler. have a wonderful week. Come see us in the showroom. We can show you many of them right here.