Your Kitchen's Potential: Must-Have Cabinet Accessories and Storage
Think about your current kitchen or bathroom. Do you find yourself digging deep into cabinets, searching for that one pot lid? Are your drawers a jumble of utensils? Do you wish you could magically create more space? While a full remodel transforms the look and layout, it’s the details inside your cabinets that truly elevate everyday function.
Today’s cabinetry goes far beyond basic shelves and drawers. Leading cabinet manufacturers, like those we partner with here at The Corner Cabinet, offer ingenious accessories and storage solutions designed to maximize every inch, improve accessibility, and banish clutter for good. These aren’t just bells and whistles; they’re thoughtful additions that make your kitchen and bath work smarter, not harder.
Let’s explore some of the exciting options available:
Supercharged Drawer Organization
Drawers are prime real estate, but often underutilized. Move beyond separators:
- Tiered Cutlery & Utensil Dividers: These utilize vertical space within the drawer, often doubling your storage capacity and keeping everything neatly separated and easy to grab.
- Adjustable Peg Systems: Perfect in deep drawers to hold dishes or pots and pans, these systems use movable pegs to securely hold items in place, preventing shifting and chipping.
- In-Drawer Spice Racks: Keep your spices alphabetized and easily visible near your prep area, eliminating a cluttered countertop or disorganized cabinet shelves.
- Knife Blocks: Safely store knives within a drawer, freeing up counter space and keeping sharp blades secure.
- Charging Drawers: Integrate hidden power outlets inside a drawer to create a dedicated, clutter-free spot for charging phones and tablets. A power outlet in the drawer in the bathroom is handy for hair styling equipment.
- Secured Drawers: An innovative secured drawer modification upgrades a standard drawer with an installed self-locking mechanism featuring advanced sensor biometric technology. This technology sees past contaminants and imperfections to assure fast, accurate scans granting access to multiple people if you choose or restricting access with the touch of a finger.
Biometric Drawer
Taming the Base Cabinets
Base cabinets, especially deep ones and corners, can become black holes. Smart solutions bring everything into reach:
- Roll-Out Trays/Shelves: Instead of kneeling and reaching, full-extension roll-outs bring the contents of your base cabinets directly to you. Perfect for pots, pans, small appliances, and pantry items.
- Wine or Bottle Roll-out Trays: This ingenious use of space holds a good amount of wine or other similar sized bottles in the smallest of spaces.
- Wastebasket Pull-Outs: Keep unsightly trash and recycling bins hidden but easily accessible. Options often include double bins for sorting.
- Tray Dividers: Store baking sheets, cutting boards, and platters vertically, making them easy to see and grab without unstacking.
- Corner Cabinet Solutions: Maximize your kitchen’s potential by utilizing often-overlooked corner spaces. These challenging areas can become highly functional storage with the right cabinet accessories. Choose from classic rotating Lazy Susans or explore advanced pull-out systems, such as blind corner optimizers, which swing or slide out to provide complete access to items stored deep within.
- Mixer Lifts: For avid bakers, a spring-loaded shelf brings your heavy stand mixer up to counter height and tucks it away easily when not in use.
- Sink Base Organization: Specialized pull-outs, caddies for cleaning product, tilt-out trays for sponges, and roll-out trays designed to fit around plumbing maximize storage for under the sink.
Wine Roll-Out Trays
Making Wall Cabinets Work Harder
Wall cabinets aren’t just for glasses and dishes anymore:
- Pull-Down Shelving: Ideal for shorter individuals or accessing higher shelves, these mechanisms bring the entire shelf down for easy reach.
- Wall Spice Racks: Keep spices organized and visible, either on the back of the door or in dedicated narrow pull-out cabinets.
- Stemware Racks: Store wine glasses safely and efficiently under a wall cabinet.
Spice Rack
Dedicated Pantry & Utility Storage
Tall cabinets offer incredible volume, but require smart organization to be truly effective and not disorganized:
- Pantry Pull-Out Units: Imagine opening your pantry door and having the entire shelving system glide out smoothly, giving you instant visibility and access to everything from cereal boxes to canned goods. These come in various configurations.
- Swing-Out Pantry Systems: These combine door-mounted shelves (great for jars and smaller items) with internal shelves that swing or pull out, maximizing access in wider pantry cabinets.
- Roll-Out Trays in Tall Cabinets: Even within a standard tall cabinet, adding individual roll-out trays prevents items from getting lost in the back and makes accessing bulk goods easier.
- Utility Cabinet Organizers: Tall, narrow cabinets designed for brooms, mops, and vacuums can be outfitted with specialized dividers, hooks, and holders to keep cleaning tools upright and organized.
Utility Cleaning Cabinet
Why Consider These Accessories?
You can certainly buy cabinets without any accessories, but if your goal is to improve the function of your current space then consider these benefits.
- Efficiency: Find what you need quickly, streamlining and increasing joy in cooking and cleaning.
- Space Maximization: Utilize every cubic inch, especially vertical space in tall units.
- Reduced Clutter: A designated spot for everything keeps countertops clear and pantries tidy, keeping things running smoothly.
- Accessibility: Reduces bending, reaching, and digging, even for items stored high or low.
- Protection: Prevents damage to dishes, cookware, and keeps cleaning tools orderly.
- Adds Value: A well designed kitchen will increase the value of your home either at resale or for equity purposes.
See your Options
Reading about these solutions is one thing, but seeing them in action is another. When planning your kitchen or bath project, thinking about how you’ll use the space is just as important as how it looks.
Visit our showroom in Framingham, MA, to explore cabinets featuring many of these innovative storage solutions – from clever drawer dividers to full-height pantry pull-outs. Our designers can walk you through the options available from quality lines like KraftMaid, Schrock, and others, helping you select the accessories that best fit your needs, your space, and your lifestyle.
Ready to design a kitchen or bath that’s as functional as it is beautiful? Contact The Corner Cabinet today to schedule your design consultation!