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New kitchen - where to put bins?

14 replies

Maggiemoothecoo · 13/04/2019 15:34

Just about to get a new kitchen. Currently we just have a stand alone bin. Several kitchens ive seen gave bins in cupboards or drawers? Does anyone have this? How do they find it and would they recommend it?

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SpoonBlender · 13/04/2019 15:39

Pullout bin! Ours is in a 30cm cupboard - it's amaaaaazing. Compost and main compartments. If you've got any 30-45cm sections it's an ideal filler, and if I was designing again I'd make room.

SpoonBlender · 13/04/2019 15:41

Almost exactly this - www.amazon.co.uk/REJS-30-Litre-JC-603-Pull-Kitchen/dp/B00MBW5OIS?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Lindtnotlint · 13/04/2019 15:45

My pull-out bin cupboard/massive drawer thingummy is pretty much the best thing in my kitchen. You MUST have one.

lalafafa · 13/04/2019 15:45

I have bins in drawers. Hold tons, recycling in one, general trash in the other. Just needs the bin juice cleaning every few days.

lalafafa · 13/04/2019 15:47

Andonandonan · 13/04/2019 19:53

Yes we have a pullout and it is fantastic. I was sad to get rid of our trusty brabantia (had been a wedding present 10+ years ago!) but I wouldn’t go back now.

Ours is 45cm wide and that works well; I wouldn’t want to go any smaller really as imagine you’d need to empty it all the time.

Ours has 2 compartments which works as all our recycling is mixed but you can get lots more compartments if needed for more sorting.

NotMeNoNo · 13/04/2019 20:14

What Andon said. See binopolis website. Ours is 45cm wide, two big 35 litre bins and a shelf above although I want to make it a drawer. Otherwise you will have to make a space for a floor standing bin.

Fantasisa · 13/04/2019 20:55

Our huge bins in a drawer are one of the best things about our kitchen - two huge deep ones for recycling, one for food waste and the the other for normal waste. So much tidier than having recycling on the kitchen worksurface for days.

Secondstartothergt · 13/04/2019 21:04

Pull out bins are very popular but require you to give up cupboard/drawer storage space.

I’m personally not a fan cos I don’t like the idea of something festering away in a cupboard. I know that’s irrational though! I don’t mind recycling in a cupboard as that’s rinsed if necessary before it goes in and there’s no food.

I have my general bin on a caster wheel planter dolly so I can move it to wherever happens be most convenient for me.

joaninthesun · 13/04/2019 21:10

Got our kitchen done last year and the best thing is the pull out bins, it’s in a 60cm wide drawer, 3 compartments, normal waste, recycling and compost. It’s on our island which is the workspace, so when peeling I just have the drawer open and peel directly into it, after chopping I just open the drawer and sweep everything in by hand.

It is neat and sooo handy.

Fantasisa · 13/04/2019 21:31

Nothing festers in ours, the food waste goes out daily and we line that bin with old newspapers. The recycling is clean and dry stuff so that’s fine, the general waste bin is tiny so that needs emptying daily too. You do have to clean it thoroughly (the bottom of the cupboard bit) but it is so much tidier.

yomellamoHelly · 13/04/2019 21:36

General bin and both types of recycling in corner cupboard. Works really well

Happilyacceptingcookies · 13/04/2019 23:14

Love our bin and because it's not fixed, it hangs off the inside of the cupboard door, we can always move it. It's quite a shallow bin so can fit the recycling bin in the cupboard behind it.

PickAChew · 13/04/2019 23:20

We have a joseph joseph half and half bin at the end of a peninsula. Top for general waste and bottom for recycling. Apart from the fact that we lack cupboard spac,e, it means the boys have no excuse for their own mess not finding its way into the bin because it's right there, when they walk past it.

TBH, I'm not a fan of everything hidden behind cupboard doors and bins are no exception. (There is one excetion and that's our dishwasher because DS2 can't just wander past and turn it off, like he does everything else!)

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