Kitchen Drawer Design Ideas

Drawers are generally designed without a particular function in mind. Due to this, it becomes more difficult to use the space in creative ways. When you are still in the designing stage of a new kitchen or a kitchen remodel, an opportunity arises in creating drawers that do more than hold cutlery trays, becoming customized, convenient storage spaces for all manner of kitchen items.

Partitioned Drawers

Partitioned drawers are fairly inexpensive to install in drawers. Naturally, cutlery trays are partitions, but they are only one way of partitioning. Platters and larger, more awkward pans can be stored in deep drawers with narrow partitions, storing the platters and pans upright. Utensil canisters can be installed in drawers to store utensils vertically, allowing a higher volume of utensils or cutlery to be stored in a single place than a traditional cutlery tray. Also consider installing a multitude of wide, shallow drawers for utensil storage. Store the utensils in one layer, with dividers between each utensil, making them easy to find, retrieve and replace.

Food Storage

A spice drawer, with separate spaces for different bottles, can be convenient during cooking if placed in a drawer near a commonly used workspace. Spice drawers can either have angled spaces for the spices or can be flat. Angled spice racks for drawers are commercially available as inserts. Bread box drawers are deep drawers designed with bread loaves in mind, equipped with a sliding cover when you pull out the drawer. Tall, more narrow drawers can be installed with shelves instead of traditional cabinets to be pulled out, allowing food items to be viewable and accessible from both sides.

Pullouts

Pullouts are a fusion between a cabinet and drawers, in some ways more useful than either. Pullouts usually have a door opening in varying styles, from slideup or folding to the traditional hinged door. Pullouts are basically slideout shelves and make use of all of the square inches in a space by allowing the back of a space to slide out to meet you, instead of you having to reach to pull things out. Pullouts also make stored items more visible. One option for pullouts is to store appliances on them. Pullouts that swing up to counter height work well for appliance storage, especially if a wall socket is positioned within the cabinet.

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