Blind Corner Cabinet vs. The Perfectionist
Remember my Blind Corner Cabinet? I was originally pleased with myself for coming up with a design to take advantage of the wasted space issue but now that I’m finishing up the pantry, I’ve been looking at all the fine details and want everything to function REALLY well.
I have never been in love with the movement of the first component of my blind corner and I decided that I could come up with something better. I decided this on a Friday. I decided I’d knock out a solution on Friday.
The stubbornness has now kicked in and I’ve lost any sense of time/effor vs. benefit…
Saturday…
Sunday…
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Monday Wes, Madison and I flew to Idaho for 10 days to spend time at two family reunions. I thought about my unfinished project a lot during this 10 day period but I had fun too!
We got home late Wednesday night.
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Thursday…
I’m walking away from this project but I’m not giving up on it. I just can not deal with it any longer until I can tackle something and complete it. I’m feeling very defeated which pisses me off. LOL
Hi Sandra,
I love your site and was so excited to find your plans to build a blind corner cabinet, then equally bummed when you gave up on it. After watching your video I felt there must be a way to make it work so a couple of weeks of stewing led me, possibly, to a solution. I haven’t built it yet as my carpentry skills are best hidden in walls, so your more experienced take on it would be great. I think it’s very similar to Michelle’s idea posted above.
The problem with smooth operation seems to be the weight of the cabinet unit hanging there on the piano hinge.
Do you think building both cabinet and drawer units to roll on the floor would work instead of rolling on the inside a cabinet shell? The baseboard would pull out as part of the cabinet too and the break in the baseboard could be disguised so it wouldn’t show very much. Maybe if the piano hinge only had to control the cabinet swinging away from the drawers without supporting the weight of the it, it might roll under the counter easier.
It would mean swiveling wheels under the cabinet since it would have to roll in and out from under the counter and swing out the way on the same wheels. so I’m not sure if it could be adapted. Do you think it could work? Sincerely, Linda
We’ll only know if it’ll work if you try it. 😉
I just found your posts. Let me encourage you to keep living the dream. I would love to do what you do but I found out the saw dusts takes too much out of me. Don’t give up the dream. Sincerely, Deb
This is probably a “too late” comment given what you’ve already built in, but I’d be tempted to not put the cabinet bottom in the corner (just have floor) and build 2 rolling cabinets. One that has a front that matches the other cabinets and pulls straight out all the way and another that pulls sideways out of the blind corner, like you already have. Maybe use furniture glides on the side of the pull out one that’s toward your other cabinets to keep from banging them up although that would require a gap in the corner to accommodate the glides entering and exiting the built-in part of the cabinet. Alternatively, have some sort of track under the countertop overhang to guide it, although I don’t think you currently have enough overhang for that. One advantage of this is that the rolling cabinets could be built as sturdy as needed without having to worry about the unknown load capacity of certain hardware like the piano hinges.