Blind kitchen corner cabinet - anyone installed a pull out? Other solutions?

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We've decided to paint our kitchen rather than update it. It looks much better!... BUT the storage is still a bit rubbish. It has 2 corner cabinets. One I use for food, the other for food and random tupperware. Basically half of each cabinet is inaccessible. Unfortunately we don't really need to store anything that we use rarely enough for it not to be an inconvenience.

I've found some wire type pull-out retrofit add ons I can try to install, but they cost nearly £180 each and I'm wondering if anyone has diy installed them themselves and whether you feel it was worth the time and money?

Sorry if this is a bit of a jumble. I'm trying to type this very quickly.

To be honest I think Magic corners (oblong basket type) are worth the money, why not get one or look out for secondhand- you sometimes get ones left over from installs on Ebay.
Have not DIY installed them but other fittings it's a case of downloading instructions and measuring carefully.

I’ve got a large storage box on wheels in mine for all the assorted crap we don’t use a lot that is pushed into the blind bit and a small unit with 2 shelves for bottles of squash etc. At the opening, That can be lifted out if needed, cost about £30, the really good integrated pull outs cost ££££s.

What about something like this?

www.toolstation.com/hafele-kitchen-carousel/p12617

I do the same as a pp and store less used items in boxes in the 'blind' corner then use the front half as a normal cupboard.

Or there's also

www.toolstation.com/hafele-kitchen-carousel/p90625

I have IKEA fabric boxes in mine. They fit perfectly, two on each shelf.
Two are immediately accessible as you open the door. Remove one and reach through to the corner one. I keep light things like lunchboxes, tupperwares etc in the front one, and funny shaped cake tine/ice I Ng stuff, funnels in the back one.

I looked at retrofitting a fancy system, but this is really efficient and much easier!

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Thanks @NachoNachoMan that's much cheaper than the one I saw.

I spoke to a kitchen fitter about them and he didn't even want to quote, said they were a massive pain to install. My diy level is just about at putting up a shelf My husbands is even worse

I've been using cardboard boxes to keep stuff in, bought some boxes from wilko but they were really rubbish quality and the handles broke. What fabric storage boxes do you use @picklemewalnuts ? Quite difficult to do this stuff with the shops all shut - can anyone recommend some good boxes?

Wham boxes or really useful brand.
Fabric ones won’t stand up to heavy use.

This type

They slide easily on the shelf, because they are fabric. The base and sides are stiffened. Mine don't show any wear, one of them has my jam jar collection in a back corner, and is very heavy. It doesn't get pulled in and out that often- just when I'm putting a jar away to keep.

Yeah the basic idea of those pull outs is two boxes on each level, on to take out, the second to pull sideways into the gap, Really Useful boxes would be great as they come in lots of sizes and are very strong - you might not need the lids.

I've a corner cupboard like this with one big shelf along the middle dividing the space in half
I hammered in a few shelf supports (the little pieces of plastic that you put in using a nail) and installed another shelf (just a piece of MDF) halfway between the roof of the cupboard and the middle shelf, it's half the width of the shelf.
This really increased storage space in the top half of the cupboard - all the tupperware and lids fit under the extra shelf, plus things like ice cube trays, teapots, the thunderstick/hand blender. I've cake tins and cat food on the big bottom shelf, but might put another shallow "interim" shelf in there as well. On looking at those Magic Corner things I think I would lose about a third of the cupboard space by using them (plus I don't have £180 spare!)

These are the shelf supports I used, they cost nothing. The MDF for the shelf was probably about a tenner.

I have those fancy magic corner units in my kitchen. Frankly, I'm not sure they're worth the money unless you want to access the back section constantly. I went for the plastic boxes you can slide out in my utility room and they're pretty much just as good.

Though it depends on what you're planning to store in them - china type stuff might be a stretch for a manual box option.

Sorry, just reread your post again. I'd go for plastic rather than fabric boxes for food or Tupperware as they're a bit sturdier and easier to clean than fabric.

Hafele Le Mans

Quiet, smooth action, unlike the rattly wire Magic Corner

oh, they call it a pull-out

www.toolstation.com/hafele-twin-pull-out-shelving-unit/p24996

though I think mine might be a Kessebohmer

What do you guys keep in the blind corners?

I can move some of our rarely used oven dishes, the baking stuff and perhaps the slow cooker into some of them, but that doesn't fill up the space. It seems such a waste.

I have quite alot of tins, and the oven dishes etc are heavy so the boxes have to be really hardy and preferably have wheels. Maybe I'll look next time I go to b&q.

Oh and thanks for the tips.

I think I've talked myself out of the pull out thing due to the diy install effort and am going to make do with boxes for now.

I was going to suggest half/part width shelves, counter intuitive but you can get much more in with them.

Could you turn it into a full height larder? That what we have and it's fabulous. Like this www.diy-kitchens.com/showunit.asp?id=1019692#.YC__gmmnw0E

As you say, things like the slow cooker, pasta machine, large casserole dishes go in the back to fill the space. Plus extra crockery/cutlery and serving dishes for entertaining. Not needed those for a while!

Picnic ware, lunch boxes, cool bags and bottles only used on picnics.
Icing stuff, biscuit cutters, muffin tins, cake tins. Jam jar collection. Ice cube trays.