Pull out bin cupboard

I also don’t want a bin to fit a whole week of waste in. Even with our small general bin (it’s 15L),if it’s still only half full after 2-3 days I empty it. It would smell otherwise

We’ve just had our kitchen done and couldn’t fit one in, it’s my biggest regret! I used to have one and absolutely loved it. I’ve been looking for racks I can retrofit but the only suitable cupboard is reduced depth so it’s proving difficult.

I don’t agree with previous comments about them being too small, I think the massive freestanding bins a lot of people have are gross. Stuff sits in them for days going mouldy before they’re full, I much prefer a smaller bin that gets emptied more regularly and is out of sight.

@icebearforpresident I was so excited to get a wine fridge and wish I hadn’t bothered because it never gets the wine cold enough.

Apparently wine isn't "supposed" to be served fridge cold but a few degrees above that - you can taste more if it's less cold? Like how you shouldn't put ice in whisky (only a little splash of water).

https://www.cda.co.uk/wine-coolers/recommended-serving-temperatures/

But of course we're all used to drinking really cold wine so for lots of people that's what we prefer! (I also suspect the temperature advice is less applicable to the sort of plonk I drink 🤣) But you should be able to turn your wine fridge down to about 5 degrees which is fridge cold, they usually have a thermostat in them.

We've sort of compromised - pull out bin under the sink for all recycling and a smallish touch top Simple Human bin for refuse.

We have a 3 compartment one. In our previous house we had a 2 compartment freestanding one and when designing our new kitchen wanted a more streamlined look. This one is bigger than the previous 2 compartment one and is hidden away and looks just like a cupboard.

We have two 50L bins and two smaller bins in ours. They're ace, keeps everything neat, they're functional and no issues with keeping them clean or smells etc (the bins themselves lift out).

Give me a bun drawer over a dishwasher any day. We worked with 2 kitchen designers at wren when we did our kitchen, who were both lovely but couldn’t get their head around the fact I didn’t want a dish washer. My argument was I used the one the kitchen we ripped out (which was in the house when we bought a year earlier) for storage and although not my favourite job in the world, I don’t mind standing washing the dishes with some music or a podcast on. It’s a bit of peace and quiet for me.

Just to reiterate, I love my bin drawer.

This is exactly my view.

Definitely dishwasher. No contest.

Dishwasher. Without a doubt.

Love ours !
It has 2 largish bins , one blue sack (recycling plastics , paper etc ) one black sack for the other stuff and a food caddy complete with lid hangs neatly over the side of this one
Push the door shut , and a lid slides over . There’s enough space on top of the lid for the rolls of bIn bags to be kept

I have one with two compartments that I use for recycling, one for paper, one for the rest. I have a normal bin for general waste as I didn't like the idea of using it as a general waste bin.

We have ikea pull out ones in holiday let. They were really reasonable price.

I have one and love it. Two 34L bins (normal and recycling) in a 600 wide cupboard.

If you can’t fit one that large, or if you need more types of bin, it may not work so well.

Three kitchens in seven years?! Wtf?

We had a new kitchen last year and spent far too long debating this. In the end we decided we’d rather have the extra cupboard space.

The one we have is two compartments and can be lifted out to clean and empty etc. We paid £120 on amazon and the fitter was happy to fit.

Hate to admit it - but love ours. We have just had a new kitchen - and the bin was about £400. I said no - who the hell spends £400 on a bin !!! But DH really wanted one. So we spent £400 on a bin.

Make sure you get a good size one - we have 2 sections that both lift out. So one bin / one recycling and easy cleaning.

I do still walk to where the old bin lived

We love ours and got it much cheaper from amazon. The bin sizes are smaller than a normal bin but you get used to it.

I'm redoing my kitchen, but I can't extend or knock through, so it'll still be tiny. So I can have either a slimline dishwasher OR a pull out bin.

can't decide...

tgere is nowhere else to put either!

upthread someone was complaining about having to pull open the cupboard & then the bin. You don't, if you buy the ones that have them fitted to the door/drawer.

think carefully about the configuration. My friend has one that has one large for waste & 3 small, which might work if any of them could put the recycling in the correct bins! But they can't, so the 3 small ones end up a mix of paper plastic glass🙇🏻‍♀️

if I go for hidden bin, I'll go for 2 bins as large as possible (won't be huge as only 40cm space).

but then the dishes have to sit on the work top. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Have them in a drawer similar to picture PP has posted. 3 compartments, all hold a decent amount of rubbish - less than 2 days worth, wouldn’t want more as we would empty alternate days at least (food waste emptied daily or more often).

It takes up a drawer but we have nowhere in our kitchen for a freestanding bin to be so that would be really inconvenient

I have a 400mm wide one that pulls out like a drawer, two even sized bins front and back. Plenty big enough. There’s only two of us so we often empty the rubbish bin before it’s full as otherwise would sit there for weeks! Back bin used for soft plastics, which currently our local authority don’t collect so have to take to a supermarket. Amazes me how much soft plastic we gather, separating it saves huge amounts of bin space. Other recycling boxes are just outside kitchen door so we don’t need more than that. It’s not in anyway a faff, pull out a drawer rather than lift a bin lid and saves floor space in our kitchen.
if we had a freestanding bin it would be in front of a radiator, which I didn’t fancy.

I have just had a 60cm drawer with 4 30 litre bins (under the sink) - general rubbish, paper/card, plastic/can & food waste. I empty into larger bins outside in a bin store. Really pleased with it - Iused to have a bag of mixed reccling in the kitchen whoch had to be sorted daily, a large rubbish bin which I used to empty weekly and a food wate bin that also needed emptying 2/3 times a week

Now the food waste is big enough for 5 days or so, the rubbish is still weekly and the other recycling is every other day. Less work and no bins taking up space i my kitchen

We have one with a good sized bin for waste and two for recycling. It is a single base unit and keeps all the rubbish out of sight. I'd hate a freestanding bin as it would always be in the way of something.

We love ours (2 bins). They take standard bin bags so don't need emptying too often. I hate seeing a lovely kitchen with a freestanding bin.

I like ours, but the two bins crack and break very easily and are expensive to replace £50/£60.