Pull out bin cupboard

[WongWifi]

I’m putting this here for traffic.

Currently designing a new kitchen but remain undecided about those pull-out bin cupboards.

• If you have one, do you like it or is it a bit of a bother?
• What are the things you like/dislike about them?
• Do you recommend I have one?

AIBU - you gotta have one!
AINBU - don’t do it!

I’m at a loss so any input/advice would be great. Thank you so much!

it's a must! and get one of those magic Corner cupboards! they are magic!

We've got this in a cupboard, still going strong after 15 years

https://www.simplehuman.co.uk/products/under-counter-can-pull-out-35l-dual-compartment?variant=32718173208681&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2POBitnhgAMVR-3tCh19sgb6EAQYASABEgK6jfD_BwE

I’ve got a cupboard bin but the door is hinged at the bottom and it tilts open. It is some very expensive make - Haefle?? and costs a ridiculous amount new but I got it for £5 off ebay. It’s about 1 foot x 18” x 18” deep.

I prefer it to a freestanding one - none of that cleaning the lid. It doesn’t smell. The only thing is I have to use the large black waste sacks as liners and they’re only about half full when the bin is full.

Love ours. It has four sections and we use three for recycling and one for general waste. This section takes a standard large swing bin liner so doesn't fill up especially quickly. We put fresh composting waste straight into the outside green bin.
It's one of my favourite features of the kitchen and I'd definitely recommend it.

Really helpful. Thank you very much.

Wouldn't be without ours. Worth every penny. We got the biggest 2 bin compartment Howdens did & thoroughly recommend

Slim line dishwasher. We ended up completely redoing the kitchen in our old house so it could fit in a slim line dishwasher. Best kitchen decision ever even though we sold the house about 18 months after doing it - we said we were unsure whether we'd take the dishwasher on the moving forms (incase the new house didn't have one) and the couple who were buying the house said they'd buy it as a stand alone item if it was because it was relatively new (and offered us more than we'd paid for it) but we said they could have it included in the house price. They were expecting a baby and wanted the dishwasher much more than they wanted a bin. The comprise of getting a dishwasher was that we had a REALLY small kitchen bin (under the sink) as there was no floor space even if we'd have wanted it on the floor, but they didn't even comment on that aspect.

@Floralnomad

why do you loathe it?

some older designs were pretty awful, having to open the main door then pull the bin holder out etc, but the newer ones where you pull out a drawer are great.

@jeaux90 just goes to show how different we all are, I just spent a month living in a house with one of these and hated it. Especially the recycling, I found it FAR too small & I found the recycling unit annoying they way it pulls right out and does its own thing instead of being stopped like a drawer.

it might not be too small if you like emptying ut daily & your outside bin isn't in a very inconvenient place. I found I was just piling recycling around it until I could be bothered with the hassle of taking it to the outside recycling bin.

same with the bin part really. Drove me mad how small it is.

and didn't like the opening/closing but if that either.

glad you like it though because they're not cheap

@Globules

inside of lid depends whether you empty it quickly enough or not, I didn't, so had to clean it loads.

as per my previous post, I don't like it at all for the situation I was in, but if you're happy emptying it daily, it would be fine.

Another reason I didn't like it was that I'd never use it without bin bags (like they do iIn their video.) so I used a load more bin bags than I do at home. Single use plastic. Urgh. Way too much hassle to take the containers to the inconvenient outdoor bin & then have to return them to the house and wash them out. Urgh.

@brainstories568

thank you for your post.

to add to my dilemma is the fact I don't really like dishwashers, I find they ruin things over time, so I'd rather hand wash most stuff anyway.

all I really want is a dirty dishes cupboard! So I can hide bits in the day! 😜. My hot water comes through too slowly (routed through the bathroom first) & so wastes a lot of water before it's hot or I'd just wash up as I go. I don't have a utility so the kitchen sink gets used a lot so I can't 'hide' the dishes in the sink either.

True but particularly with a slim line one you have to be fairly picky about what you put in it unless you want to run it everyday. We've always washed pots/pans etc by hand (and still do) but it was a fantastic addition to a small kitchen where you couldn't hide anything, meaning it was great to be able to dump general crockery in and just turn it on every other day overnight.

When I lived in a studio flat in Finland it had a cupboard above the sink which was a drying rack (so the water dripped down into the sink) which I mostly used as a "dirty plate hiding area" as I didn't want to wash up a single plate etc at a time and there wasn't any other storage as you were supposed to wash then put in the drying cupboard. They were really commonplace over there but I haven't really seen them in the UK. Have you got space to do that then you could get a bin too??