Corner cabinets and cookbooks.

This was a relatively simple design, but produced great results for this kitchen.

One of the things I do when dealing with kitchen organization is spend a good deal of time going over what you have in your kitchen and some lengthy discussions about why you use the kitchen the way you do and what might be a better way.

To start with, her kitchen went in a semi-circle, with the windows mirroring the cabinets.  It's a nice look and gives some interesting depth to the kitchen design, but produces some cabinets that are a little deeper than normal and makes accessibility more difficult.

This client also had many cookbooks which were taking up a good deal of space as well as being difficult to access.  Also because of all of the cookbooks, she was only able to use about half of the space as the cookbooks made the back of the cabinet inaccessible.

Adding glideouts to the corner cabinets instantly made the whole area much more accessible and easy to use as you can see here.

And one of my favorite things that we can do with cookbooks is add a side slope to the glideout.

Adding the slope to the side does a couple of things with cookbooks.  First of all, because of the 7.5 inch height in the back, you are able to have the books in their securely.  But having it short in front allows you to be able to easily see the spines of the book as well.  And by turning the slope sideways, you use the full depth of the cabinet.  And this client will still have space available in the front for other items as well.