Your kitchen is filled with activities, and you are the one who has to carry out all the activities, or monitor if someone else is performing the activities, keep the workflow going so that you can continue to serve warm, delicious meals to your family and friends. However, in order to seamlessly carry out the kitchen activities, you must plan the kitchen in a way that facilitates all activities.
The kitchen corners usually go to waste if not optimized correctly. Understanding the challenges associated with kitchen corner optimization will help you brainstorm ideas that will salvage these wasted spaces.
In this kitchen design guide today, we will discuss some tips and ideas to optimize modular kitchen corners.
How to optimize modular kitchen corners? Here are the ideas-
Select the best kitchen corner storage solutions:
The most effective way to utilize the kitchen corners is to plan efficient storage solutions. Plan and build efficient corner cabinets and drawers that would make storing items a breeze. Since accessibility is of paramount importance here, these storage units must be designed in a way that fits the corner areas seamlessly.
The popular options are corner modular kitchen cabinets and corner drawers. Since these kitchen corners are hard to reach areas, the corner cabinets and drawers must be customized in a way that they can be pulled out diagonally. Explore corner storage designs to plan a smart kitchen design for small spaces.
Install corner shelves:
Along with corner cabinets and drawers, you also need to install corner shelves that will optimize the vertical space. In a small kitchen where there is scarcity of space, small floating shelves can be easily installed and these could be utilized to store miscellaneous items. These shelves come in attractive designs and could be customized as per your needs and design preferences. These shelves are a great alternative to traditional cabinets. Put your sugar, tea, coffee containers on one shelf, and spice containers on another shelf.
Even if you are designing a premium kitchen, the shelves will beautifully complement the entire kitchen interior enhancing functionality and aesthetics.
Plan a display unit:
If you do not have much storage requirement and do not need additional storage space in the kitchen corners, still you should not waste the corners. Build a display unit in the corner area instead to enhance your kitchen aesthetics and create an intimate space.
A small display unit with a glass front would beautifully display all your prized possessions that you want to display. You can put all your glossy cookbooks, decor pieces, expensive crockery, your cherished china or something else! This display corner unit can be the perfect addition to your modern luxury kitchen design!
Invest in corner accessories:
Although the corner cabinets and drawers offer the perfect solutions for optimizing the kitchen corner spaces, you need modular kitchen accessories to make these storage modules accessible. There are specific corner accessories that enable you to reach inside these modules to retrieve an item. Let’s take a look at some of these accessories.
Lazy Susans: These lazy susans are also known as the carousel units, these units simplify the process of reaching out inside a corner cabinet to put an item on the shelf, or to retrieve an item. These units glide smooth thus making it easier and quicker to access any item.
Magic corners: Magic corners are also perfect for the corner cabinets. These units come with racks, as well as baskets that can be pulled out when needed, and pulled back in.
Corner lift systems: One more unit that should be on your radar is the corner lift system which is a sophisticated unit. You do not have to bend down everytime you need to take out an item from the corner units, instead it lifts up so that you can easily pick up the item you need.
Install corner lighting:
Utilizing the corner space is not enough, you should also make it a functional space by installing corner lighting. Whether you build a display unit or corner cabinets, you must install under-cabinet lighting, LED strips, to illuminate the corner sections. Remember, that the corner areas hardly get any light so there would be darkness or shadows, if you do not plan the lighting scheme right.
Conclusion: Do not let your kitchen corners go to waste, instead plan the perfect kitchen corner cabinets and drawers that store your kitchen essentials. Although these corner sections are hard to reach areas and present design challenges, with the right planning you can come up with practical solutions to make these sections functional in your modular kitchen.
