Kitchen cabinets
I have a very difficult to use kitchen cabinet.
It is in the corner. And next to the dishwasher. Which means it has a sliding door about 1¼ times as wide as a normal cabinet would be, and then there is a huge "dead zone" (where the door slides to, incidentally) which is impossible to get to most of the time.
While cleaning that cabinet today, I noticed the top pivot of long-vanished lazy-susan shelves. But even they would leave most of the dead zone, well, dead.
So I'm considering what I could do.
Here are the two ideas I have come up with:
A cabinet-shaped box, with shelves, which would sit behind the door. You would lift that box out completely to get at the second set of shelves in the dead zone.
Or
A sliding thing that fills the whole cabinet. In everyday use it would stay put and the shelves behind the door would be accessible, but you could slide the whole mess out the side of the cabinet (blocking the basement door), which would put the dead zone shelves in access range of the sliding door. A lot cooler and more useful, but a lot harder to engineer.
I'd really like to replace all the cabinets. But a: that wouldn't solve this problem, and b: then I'd want to redo the whole kitchen (I have it all worked out in my head), and I can't afford that. I can't afford even the cabinets. Hell, I can't really afford to be doing anything about this problem right now at all.
It is in the corner. And next to the dishwasher. Which means it has a sliding door about 1¼ times as wide as a normal cabinet would be, and then there is a huge "dead zone" (where the door slides to, incidentally) which is impossible to get to most of the time.
While cleaning that cabinet today, I noticed the top pivot of long-vanished lazy-susan shelves. But even they would leave most of the dead zone, well, dead.
So I'm considering what I could do.
Here are the two ideas I have come up with:
A cabinet-shaped box, with shelves, which would sit behind the door. You would lift that box out completely to get at the second set of shelves in the dead zone.
Or
A sliding thing that fills the whole cabinet. In everyday use it would stay put and the shelves behind the door would be accessible, but you could slide the whole mess out the side of the cabinet (blocking the basement door), which would put the dead zone shelves in access range of the sliding door. A lot cooler and more useful, but a lot harder to engineer.
I'd really like to replace all the cabinets. But a: that wouldn't solve this problem, and b: then I'd want to redo the whole kitchen (I have it all worked out in my head), and I can't afford that. I can't afford even the cabinets. Hell, I can't really afford to be doing anything about this problem right now at all.