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TO ORGANIZE YOUR KITCHEN

by Clay Cox
Owner/President • Kitchens by Clay
S imply put…drawers, drawers and example. A rollout shelf was designed to make reaching that
big pot in the back of your cabinet easier to get to. However,
more drawers. Storage solutions are
paramount on our customers’ minds
this process includes multiple steps. First you opened the
these days as it should be in my opinion.
I wish I could say that it has always been this cabinet doors. Then you pulled the shelf out. Next you
removed the pot and pushed the shelf back in. Lastly you
closed the doors. Now try getting that pot when it’s in a
drawer. First you open the drawer. Then you remove the pot.
Then you close the drawer. You’re done.
Drawers can play a big part in aging in place as well. In
the example above I think everyone can see that opening
a drawer, lifting an item out and closing that drawer is as
easy as it gets. And with the soft- close drawer features that
practically close the drawers themselves it gets even better. How about some more
ideas? Put your dishes and glasses in drawers. We have drawer accessories that keep
them from banging into each other. How about putting your knives into a knife
block drawer instead of on your counter? There are silverware drawers, spice drawers,
cutlery drawers, utensil drawers, linen drawers and just big ole empty drawers to
way but in fact it hasn’t. For example during the name but a few.
“Tuscany” year’s kitchen designs were all about If you’re considering new fronts only for your kitchen cabinets I urge you to consider
over the top accents. During this era we worked your storage solutions too. Unfortunately you can’t, in most cases, change your base
with decorative corbels, fluted columns, turned cabinets to drawers so you’re stuck with whatever the builder put into your kitchen to
legs and massive wood hoods some so large we begin with. I have never remodeled a kitchen with new cabinetry where I didn’t make
called them mantles. Storage solutions were a huge difference in storage and increasing the amount of drawers helped with that.
secondary to the design. Those days I’m happy to
say are mostly in the past for us kitchen designers. Please E-mail Clay with your questions or comments at clay@kitchensbyclay.com.
Let me give you an example of how easy Enjoy your remodel,
drawers can be by using rollout shelves as an Clay Cox
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