Lazy susan alternatives.

I had a lot of fun with this client.  Turns out we had a lot in common.  He is a brass player (him tuba, me trombone) and he is also quite the talented wine maker (I'm just a novice homebrewer at this point).

They had a good sized kitchen.  They weren't overloaded with things, but were having difficulty making things usable.

They had a typical corner cabinet with a lazy susan, which is helpful in a corner cabinet, but is not always the best use of the space.

With a typical lazy susan like this, you either have a fair amount of unused dead space, or you overload and over stack everything making it difficult to use, besides things continually falling off of the shallow sides, which is then impossible to get to.

Another thing that they had huge issues with was that all of their cabinets had half shelves in them.  Half shelves are common in newer construction.  The idea behind them is that with full shelves it makes access more difficult, you can't have taller items and appliances underneath and  you can see everything that is in there when you have a half shelf.

For those of you that have them though, typically all they do is annoy the owner because there is so much less shelving space to store things.

They also wanted to do something with the space under the sink

And they also had a very deep cupboard over the fridge that had a stile in the middle which made it virtually unusable for them.

So in their corner cabinet, we replaced their old lazy susans with what is probably my favorite ShelfGenie product, called the glidearound.

This combines both the ease of access of having a lazy susan and combining that with glideout shelves as well.  This helps you eliminate the dead space and overloading issues that you have my putting smaller things in the glideouts, and taller items on the sides.  The walls are also higher than a standard lazy susan, so you don't have to worry about things falling off the side.

They each rotate 360 independently of each other and each glideout comes out full extension.

Next, one of the great things about shelfgenie is we can build our glideouts on half shelves, but still have them come out full extension.

We also converted one of the cupboards to being just for trays, bakeware and cutting boards.

By putting everything up on end and in a glide, all of your tall pieces stay much more organized and much easier to access.

Also for under the sink here we added a riser on one side to help eliminate some of the dead space that you get under the sinks due to the drain pipes.

And lastly, and this was the most surprising for me, but the space we did for them over the fridge was the space that they were the most excited about.

One issue that people often have, if you will go back and look at the before picture here and one one of the other lower cabinets are the center stiles in cabinets.  We removed these and attached them to the doors.  These are not a load bearing piece but rather a cosmetic piece.  They help the cabinets look nice without having the doors touch and also help you not notice if the doors aren't exactly straight.  However they greatly effect ease of use in the space.

By removing the stiles and attaching them to the door, they still look normal when closed, but give a much better ease of use with your cabinets.

They were so happy that they were able to use that huge cabinet space over the fridge as well as get their Kitchenaid mixer off of their counter.

All in all another happy client!