The Kitchen That Works

Innovative organization strategies
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By Kathy Price-Robinson
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Wooden bars for rattle-free drawers.

Shallow drawer under cooktop.

Here are some solutions:

Drawers

Order in the drawers equals order in the kitchen. These innovative drawer storage solutions can be considered.

Integrated Drawers for Dinnerware and Cutlery
In high-end kitchens, storing dinnerware in drawers rather than overhead cabinets has become de rigueur. Elevating that trend is a cutlery drawer integrated into the dish drawer.

Flexible Knife and Cutlery Arrangement
A cutlery insert is practical and hygienic. Separators can be removed to adjust the cross dividers as needed and the compartments can be cleaned easily. The separators can then simply be pushed back on. A cutlery insert may also have anti-slip properties that prevents sharp cutlery damage to the end walls and also offers high hygiene standards.

Narrow Utensil Drawer
Often the most important drawer is the one under the cooktop. Whether it’s cooking spoons or spatula, everything must be at hand quickly. However, the dimensions of many cooktops offer no room for a drawer. This is where the special drawer with a flatter structure makes sense. The practical layout can be rounded off by a narrow cutlery insert.

Flexible Drawers with Transverse and Longitudinal Dividers
Drawers with dividers allow clients to combine the compartments as they wish depending on their taste and needs. As those needs change, the placement of the dividers change, keeping items in order rather than in a jumble of chaos.

Rattle-Free Drawers
Some clients are more bothered by rattling sounds than others. If a rattle-free kitchen is a priority, a dinnerware drawer with moveable wooden bars keeps stacks of items in place. This means no rattling and no shifting of items. These inserts ensure safe and stable storage for easily-chipped fine china. With this system, pots no longer bang against each other. The solid wooden bars can be moved for a customized storage solution.

Drawer Storage for Heavy Items
In general, pull-outs are ideal for storage of heavy and bulky dishes. A drawer makes heavier items easier to access than they would be on a static shelf.

Bottle Storage
A bottle rack can be integrated into a storage drawer. This keeps bottles from knocking into each other and eliminates annoying rattling sounds that disturb acoustic peace.

Bottle storage rack.

Baguette and Bread Storage
Everybody loves baguettes, but where do you store them? Not much thought has been given to this topic . . . until now. A combination drawer insert with a canvas tote and wire shelves can be used for bread and baguettes, or any other items.

Canvas hanging bag for baguettes.

Child Safety Drawers
Child safety locks prevent the drawer from opening in the conventional way. Ideally child-proof locks are integrated into the cabinet design rather than being an add-on feature. In this case, a small trick allows effort-less opening: just pull the hoop at the bottom of the drawer. This brings safety for small children and convenient handling for the grown-ups. A child safety drawer should be indistinguishable from a conventional drawer.

Built-in child safety locks.

Cabinets and Shelves

Order in the cabinets also equals order in the kitchen. Clients may want these innovative cabinet storage solutions.

Tall Cabinets
Over the past decade, buying items in bulk has become the norm and looks to continue. But kitchen storage design has not kept up with this trend. It’s not uncommon to find laundry rooms stacked with large cases of goods because there is no place to store them. This includes cases of water. Tall cabinets are the answer, ready to hold the bounty from big box stores. For more storage, tandem tall cabinets offer double the capacity. They provide impressive overview, extremely high storage capacity, and great accessibility thanks to intelligent door shelves.

Tall pantry cabinet.

Pull-out pantry unit.

Tall Pantry Pull-Out Cabinets
A pull-out pantry cabinet keeps supplies convenient, highly visible, and close at hand. Occupants can see quickly what is on the shelves, thus items do not get forgotten in the dark recesses of stationary cabinets.

Lift-up upper cabinet doors.

 

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Originally published in April 2023

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