Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Feb 14, 2011 10:30 pm i am just organising my new litchen and was having a 1000 x 1000 corner pantry but my kitchen guy has just suggested a straight line pantry with on side 1000 the other 600 and a sliding door cavityy- does anyone have one of these and do nyou loose much storage ( other than the obvious!) thanks Re: corner pantry 2Feb 15, 2011 10:02 am We have a corner pantry, and rather than having a sliding door, we have two hinged doors that open from the middle, to maximise shelf space. I can't visualise how a sliding door would have worked with our corner pantry. Re: corner pantry 3Feb 15, 2011 11:54 am jtnru i am just organising my new litchen and was having a 1000 x 1000 corner pantry but my kitchen guy has just suggested a straight line pantry with on side 1000 the other 600 and a sliding door cavityy- does anyone have one of these and do nyou loose much storage ( other than the obvious!) thanks Your kitchen guy is suggesting a 'blind corner' pantry. It saves space and reduces the 'visual bulk' of the kitchen. The cons of a blind corner pantry is reduced access and less storage space. Re: corner pantry 4Feb 15, 2011 2:57 pm We have just ripped out a blind corner pantry from our 20 yr old kitchen because I absolutely HATED it. The dimensions sound the same. I can see that it may have appeared to be a good solution for a very tight corner in our kitchen but it was horrible to use. In order to get to anything which was 'around the corner' you basically had to take out all the stuff in front. Also, because of the right angle, the shelves had to be quite narrow meaning you couldn't fit much on. I don't know if the sliding door would make much difference. Ours had a standard door like a walk in pantry (but you couldn't walk in). I certainly wouldn't recommend one, especially not without seeing one in the flesh (so-to-speak) Basically. If the shelves are fixed then they will be screwed in just the same as the rest of the carcass. To re move the screws you need to remove that section of… 3 5203 I visited a relatives house and he went with sink in kitchen and butlers, dishwasher in kitchen and butlers and has crockery spread out between the two areas depending on… 2 44072 4 14294 |