Your Favourite types of corner base cabinets in the kitchen

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Hello All Bit of a boring topic but I have a 110cm long, 60cm deep blind corner base cabinet. It has a 50cm door to which is attached a plastic tray which come out when the door is opened. There is a pole with another tray that moves a bit too. It is very difficult to explain but things fall off frequently and have to be extracted from underneath the pullouts. I cannot recommend this system.
I am redesigning my kitchen, and wonder if any of you have a favourite type of corner cabinet, and what size it is?

The ones where when you pull the door open it swings to one side with two tiers of sturdy metal basket shelves attached and the two shelves which were in the corner move over and are accessible right in front of you. Used to have one - it was brilliant. They are not cheap, but worth. Sorry, struggling to post a link as on my phone.

Probably called a Magic Corner.

If you search under Blum or Hafele you will probably find them.

I think suppliers charge three or four hundred, and kitchen fitters may be more.

L shaped with offset shelves, I think it is perfect. Everything visible, no moving parts. You can fit a LOT of stuff in of all shapes and sizes. There's something similar in the Magnet brochure, don't know if anyone else does them standard but it's not a hard customisation for the fitter. It will work with a normal corner as well as a curved one, ideally hinge your two doors together.

If you have difficulties bending down you are a bit stuck with the pull out things. There is a lovely one called a Turnmotion with a little chopping board on top. here. Or splash out on Blum corner drawers., it leaves a bit of dead space but at least they are accessible.

Generally corners are a PITA both from worktop and storage point of view and it's worth planning your kitchen to avoid more than one of them, IMO. Particularly blank corners with only one door, often the fitters leave the inside open so things fall down the gap spiders crawl in.

I don't honestly see that you would have to bend down any less with those offset shelves Raising - the whole thing pulls out by just opening the door. The Hafele magic corners (thank you PJ) are available on eBay for around £150 and there are some second hand ones in auctions too.

We have 2 blind corners - I have a metal wire magic corner which is fine but I am just as happy with my other corner that has standard shelves in which I use for storing "things used a couple of times per year" in the back of.

We have a corner carousel and I find that really useful. I'm not sure on measurements though. Looks a bit like this:
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I have one magic corner and one offset shelves with two doors that open in opposite directions from the corner, if you get what I mean.

They are both great, but if I only had one corner to do I would always choose the magic corner, because it is so easy to use. The other one is much better than the old fashioned way, but it is in no way shape or form as accessible on an every-day level as the magic corner.

Thank you all for talking to me. Now I want a magic corner too! I suppose that being technical and clever they break though. Who does the best I wonder?

The one we had lasted more than ten years for us with no issues at all - probably still working now but we sold the house! One of the reasons they are relatively expensive is because they are sturdy I think.

Hafele and Blum are considered good brands.

I have recently seen some with sturdy steel mechanisms and kidney-shaped plastic trays with a raised edge, which I suppose retains spills better than wire shelves. The movement seems smoother than the ones with two square units that move separately.