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
Hayley says
I’m not usually one to comment, but this post hit home and made me laugh out load ? Especially the part about forgetting the time/effort vs. benefit comment. I have two projects that I’ve recently stepped away from because of all the hours I’m putting into them just to save $20 ? and the other one I have so much time into it, it seems like such a waste to scrap it! But I’m over it! Thanks for the encouragement, been building furniture for years and because of your posts I’m gearing up to build some additional cabinets in my kitchen and build new doors for them all. Wish me luck!
Sandra says
I just have to laugh at myself because I just kept trying and trying even though I knew I was wasting way too much time for the value of the project. Hammering away, laughing at myself for not being able to walk away… Hahaha Good luck on your cabinets!
Nancy says
I had a blind corner in my previous kitchen and I bought a large plastic square container and put my small baking supplies in it and it was pushed into the hard to reach corner. I keep my flour, sugar and larger cooking supplies in easy to grab containers and put them next to the square container. When I bake I easily pulled out the flour and sugar and the grabbed the edge of the square container and slid it out to grab whatever small baking supplies I needed. Worked really well and very simple. If you want some inspiration try looking at Richelieu or Berenson web sites and maybe some of their fancy racking systems will spark an idea.
Sandra says
I have found some hardware that would work. It costs $700 so if my next idea doesn’t product the results I want I’ll just waste the blind space and have some easy to access drawers.
janet says
I have recently downsized. Trying to find space for things that I rarely used made me realize that maybe those things needed to be cut. It’s like being defeated though. I used them at Thanksgiving and Christmas, so they must be important…. but can I justify the space….. ugh… such a dilemma. Going from 5400 sqft to 3000 sqft is soooo hard. (whine) Maybe I should just give all that stuff to my grown kids and let them host the holidays!!!! Yes!!!! 😀
Sandra says
That’s a good idea. Let them store it all! LOL
Nikki says
Oh… that feeling of not wanting to give up! Not willing to be beaten!!! I know it soooo well.
I’m so grateful that you shared this. Sometimes you just have to walk away and do something productive. 🙂
But I’m sure that one night, at 2 o’clock in the morning, you’ll sit bolt upright in bed and say “I’ve got it!! I know what to do with that **#[email protected]!* blind corner!”
Meanwhile I’ll be thinking hard in case I can come up with any bright ideas. <3
Sandra says
I did have that moment on Friday, while drinking my coffee feeling frustrated about having to walk away. I was all, “This @#** cabinet will not beat me!” LOL My new idea seems so simple but I’m afraid to be confident about it until I try it because I did feel like I had it a couple times before …until I tried it out after spending countless hours rigging it up. Haha. I guess I just wasn’t ready to walk away…yet.
Keep thinking hard because I’m always open to bright ideas. 😀
nellie says
can you build it with just gliders like on kitchensource.com. looks like your cabinet but they just attached with two glides.
Michelle says
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.
Deb Laughlin says
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
Linda says
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
Sandra says
We’ll only know if it’ll work if you try it. 😉