That pots and lid one is highly illegal. You cannot have a drawer that doesn't get stuck cause the lid has lifted just enough to catch, or the lid has fallen behind the back of the drawer and requires you to pull everything out and the drawer just to retrieve the lid.
I had right handed Ramen sporks. They were awesome for soup. They got lost in a move and the company that makes them went away or stopped making them. It was a Japanese company. I got them when I was there.
No, on that cutting board design. Save the vegetable parts you chop off and don't use. Put them in a bag or a Tupperware container, and freeze them. You can also add chicken/pork/beef bones that you're hopefully not eating. Once it's full, put that shit in a crock pot with water, and let it go overnight on warm or a few hours on low. This makes stock that you can use for the upcoming soup months
Some of this looks ok but other bits look over engineered. The things that help me not use a stepping stool I like. The things that just try to hide stuff seems like it’s taking up more space.
A lot of these can be done in a much more mechanically simple way... like the coffee maker one, we used to just build out a small curve and make it a roll top you could leave up if you wanted... and it would last 100 years just fine. The BIG sin here is that everything you see is like $600 at a specialty kitchen store. Or more.
I have an Interior Design firm and specialize a lot in kitchens. Clients fan favorites are spice drawers with the spice canted towards you for easy reading, slide out anything below the counter so you don't have to go digging, Pantries like a utility room and a lazy susan in the corners under the counter to get to those hard to reach spots. I personally love a coffee station behind a cabinet but the rest here looks complicated and will bend or break in months.
Disagree. I love to use my kitchen and am sad I can't afford a larger one. These things would solve several problems for me but it turns out I also can't afford them. These things are for people who have money, first and foremost.
What you don't really notice in these quick clips is that these kitchens are huge and those mechanisms with those big hinges take up a lot of their extra space. You lose like 20% of your space.
Watch it again, pause the video at the 11 second mark. The drawer slides are mounted BELOW the cutting board. It sits on a shelf and can be lifted out and cleaned, just like any cutting board that slides in and out of a nested space.
We have a cutting board that pulls out from under the counter top. I don't think we've used it in the 40 years we've been here. We've probably only pulled it out once or twice to look at it.
My great grandmother has one that has been in use since before I was born. It pulls out partway and holds itself up and then can be removed to clean and dry it.
I would use it all the time as a supplemental countertop so help keep more things within reach...but never as a "cutting board". After washing a cutting board, by the time it would be dry enough to feel comfortable enough to slide it into an enclosed space, I'd already be using it again.
True. Sometimes the extra storage can be worth the hassle if you have a very small space… unfortunately the folks who live in small apartment with small kitchens tend not to have the budget for this stuff anyway, because it’s expensive as fuck.
I had a tall thin cabinet; I made a rail along the top to hold drawer slides, and a box on the top of shelves to hide them from view. The shelves have a front and back board with small wood rails to keep things in, and I screwed the cabinet face on from behind so it pulls out by the handle. I love that the bottom shelf is as low as it can be.
Their tall thin cabinet approach is really slick, but I would imagine it is a pain to keep up, mine just uses normal drawer slides.
The mini-drawer for pot lids is awesome and just standard parts. I wish I had it. I might have room to even retrofit it in, actually. The pull-out appliance garage is also standard parts. Some of the others are less practical though, yeah.
The pot lid drawer does seem feasible, but notice that it sort of assumes you're not stacking pots below (since you'd have to stack lids, too, and the lid drawer isn't high enough for that). I view a lot of this design as great for organization but not really space-saving, since the specialized hardware is going to subtract from your storage volume.
It's for usability, not space-saving. Right now we have two pans stacked, and then their two lids stacked on top. To get the bottom-most pan, you have to lift off the other pan and two lids. It's so annoying. And I have physical limitations that makes it more than just annoying. We have fewer lids than pots/pans, so we could easily lay out all the lids on the top level while still stacking the other stuff on the lower level.
I was just thinking this would be wonderful for older people who still cook but don’t need the hassle of lifting multiple heavy pots and pans to get to the bottom stuff. Or my sight impaired Dad who would benefit from having things more easily accessible and organized so he would be less likely to drop things and not be able to find them once they fell on the floor. My Dad is capable of independence to an extent, but only if his home is organized.
AnonsAndMinions
Too bad nobody can afford any house that has modernization like this, or a house at all.
avenlanzer
The spice rack is nice
reliot
Yay! More moving parts to break, just what I always wanted.
psmith00
wait, love the pots and lids thing. gotta implement that in my kitchen.
marc55410
Yeah, try getting someone to come out and fix that.
ALTEFFFOUR
That's not what POV means.
TresusIbor
My concern here isn't the moving parts. It's the added weight of packing those into those high up cabinets.
Geezard12
Hiding the coffee maker! Inhuman!
FaecalJacksonPollock
makingmusic
Absolute nightmare to clean, and even worse to repair, I imagine.
But I guess if you can afford to have other people do that for you...
IgnisInvictus
I have never in my life been that organized.
Traust
That pots and lid one is highly illegal. You cannot have a drawer that doesn't get stuck cause the lid has lifted just enough to catch, or the lid has fallen behind the back of the drawer and requires you to pull everything out and the drawer just to retrieve the lid.
Syko73
Okay, show mat that "pot drawer with lid shelf" after 6 months of actual use
seneah
I am a mom and i am having an orgasm
LordoftheSpell
I hate to do this to you as this may be your first one in ages, but all of these would be a nightmare to fix if any one of those tracks gets messed up, especially with kids your odds of them getting gunked up is astronomical. https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bTZqdW5penVtamVta2xzM2tldTl0MHNpbmdzMWlkMnk5dmppemRqNiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/nR4L10XlJcSeQ/200w.webp
Astral134
Syko73
I think of stuff like this the same way I think of a spork. Great in concept, not so much in actual practice.
Neurisko
I have a couple sporks. The only time I ever use them is for ramen.
feltenix
I had right handed Ramen sporks. They were awesome for soup. They got lost in a move and the company that makes them went away or stopped making them. It was a Japanese company. I got them when I was there.
cosonfused
Alright, the lid-drawer above the pot-drawer is genius, and out of all of them, the easiest to implement and repair.
devasto
No, on that cutting board design. Save the vegetable parts you chop off and don't use. Put them in a bag or a Tupperware container, and freeze them. You can also add chicken/pork/beef bones that you're hopefully not eating. Once it's full, put that shit in a crock pot with water, and let it go overnight on warm or a few hours on low. This makes stock that you can use for the upcoming soup months
bambulina
Why wouldn't you line up the pot lids?
suggestedCleverUsernameGenerator
Why does everything need to feel sterile rather than lived in?
Lappyrat92
Some of this looks ok but other bits look over engineered. The things that help me not use a stepping stool I like. The things that just try to hide stuff seems like it’s taking up more space.
pettingmycatwhileipoo
POV: Fuck off caption.
ShadusMacAoidh
A lot of these can be done in a much more mechanically simple way... like the coffee maker one, we used to just build out a small curve and make it a roll top you could leave up if you wanted... and it would last 100 years just fine. The BIG sin here is that everything you see is like $600 at a specialty kitchen store. Or more.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Wife - *unzips*
StabbyMcMurder
As a shortie for whom the top shelves just don't exist, I need those first two.
Neurisko
I'm almost 6' and I still have a bunch of higher shelves I can't use without a step stool.
donorkort
I was thinking the same, the spice rack would be excellent for my much shorter SO.
tsterling00
These are for people that like to show off their kitchen more than use their kitchen.
eathotdog
There not really space saving either
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
These aren't for saving space, they're for usability.
ChicanoBatman
I have an Interior Design firm and specialize a lot in kitchens. Clients fan favorites are spice drawers with the spice canted towards you for easy reading, slide out anything below the counter so you don't have to go digging, Pantries like a utility room and a lazy susan in the corners under the counter to get to those hard to reach spots. I personally love a coffee station behind a cabinet but the rest here looks complicated and will bend or break in months.
TREXSEXISARMLESS
I'm a kitchen fitter and some people have 2, 1 to use and 1 to show off.
Jonson71
Disagree. I love to use my kitchen and am sad I can't afford a larger one. These things would solve several problems for me but it turns out I also can't afford them. These things are for people who have money, first and foremost.
EmergencyDonut
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Neurisko
What you don't really notice in these quick clips is that these kitchens are huge and those mechanisms with those big hinges take up a lot of their extra space. You lose like 20% of your space.
huffnpuff72
Lose 20% of your storage to mechanism or 40% of your storage because of all the old crap you pushed to the back and it gets forgotten.
Mithi
80% usable still beats, less than 50% because you have to get a ladder for the upper shelve
thotterpop
Worth not having to get a step ladder and pull out all the stuff in front just to get to the stuff in the back, and then put everything else back in.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
those telescoping shelves and drawers look perfect for short people who usually lose use of more than 20% because they can't reach without a ladder
PapaJoeNH
The cutting board will be a biohazard within weeks
Jonson71
No more than any other cutting board.
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Jonson71
No more than this one does. The board is clearly resting on a sliding drawer from which it can be lifted and cleaned.
Jonson71
Watch it again, pause the video at the 11 second mark. The drawer slides are mounted BELOW the cutting board. It sits on a shelf and can be lifted out and cleaned, just like any cutting board that slides in and out of a nested space.
Tenugui
Plus food scraps are compost, not trash
Gramsar
That depends, when you cut meat on it I wouldn't put that in the compost, otherwise you get rats pretty fast
flarp
And my back hurt just by seeing how low that thing is.
Vengeraxe
Was about to say, thats too damn low to do any real serious chopping, and shit will fly all over the place and floor.
IDontCareAtAllButIShould
We have a cutting board that pulls out from under the counter top. I don't think we've used it in the 40 years we've been here. We've probably only pulled it out once or twice to look at it.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
My great grandmother has one that has been in use since before I was born. It pulls out partway and holds itself up and then can be removed to clean and dry it.
linkdude212
That's neat but I don't blame you. Countertops are already too low standardly. A cutting board at a lower level would be >:|
necrojoe
I would use it all the time as a supplemental countertop so help keep more things within reach...but never as a "cutting board". After washing a cutting board, by the time it would be dry enough to feel comfortable enough to slide it into an enclosed space, I'd already be using it again.
AccountOfMyDong
I use it as supplemental counter top because smol kitchen, but I also use it as storage for my in use cutting boards. Enough room for a few! :>
chrisat928
A lot of random and hard to replace parts.
mynamespaul
True. Sometimes the extra storage can be worth the hassle if you have a very small space… unfortunately the folks who live in small apartment with small kitchens tend not to have the budget for this stuff anyway, because it’s expensive as fuck.
thecorrupterx
I had a tall thin cabinet; I made a rail along the top to hold drawer slides, and a box on the top of shelves to hide them from view. The shelves have a front and back board with small wood rails to keep things in, and I screwed the cabinet face on from behind so it pulls out by the handle. I love that the bottom shelf is as low as it can be.
Their tall thin cabinet approach is really slick, but I would imagine it is a pain to keep up, mine just uses normal drawer slides.
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
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eathotdog
I doubt quality control accounted for it being opened and closed 100 times a day, sometimes by a child with no concept of restraint.
FellaWithUmbrella
And nightmare to keep it clean.
decarnatedame
Just break out the leaf blower.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
The mini-drawer for pot lids is awesome and just standard parts. I wish I had it. I might have room to even retrofit it in, actually. The pull-out appliance garage is also standard parts. Some of the others are less practical though, yeah.
seitanicverses
The pot lid drawer does seem feasible, but notice that it sort of assumes you're not stacking pots below (since you'd have to stack lids, too, and the lid drawer isn't high enough for that). I view a lot of this design as great for organization but not really space-saving, since the specialized hardware is going to subtract from your storage volume.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
It's for usability, not space-saving. Right now we have two pans stacked, and then their two lids stacked on top. To get the bottom-most pan, you have to lift off the other pan and two lids. It's so annoying. And I have physical limitations that makes it more than just annoying. We have fewer lids than pots/pans, so we could easily lay out all the lids on the top level while still stacking the other stuff on the lower level.
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
I was just thinking this would be wonderful for older people who still cook but don’t need the hassle of lifting multiple heavy pots and pans to get to the bottom stuff. Or my sight impaired Dad who would benefit from having things more easily accessible and organized so he would be less likely to drop things and not be able to find them once they fell on the floor.
My Dad is capable of independence to an extent, but only if his home is organized.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Exactly. Space isn't always the top priority, and some of these are really great ideas for easier access.