corner kitchen base cupboard with hinged double door?

[tilesntilers]

Pros/cons of corner base unit with 2 small doors hinged together/open together for easier access. It will be in an inframe style kitchen so lots of space taken by frame rather than door.

This isn’t answering your direct question.but we had these in our corner cupboards, worked really well shelf. With just a normal door.

I have one , it's L shaped too and holds a lot , the only drawback is you have to be very flexible if something fall off at the back
Just don't double decker overload it like I do

Thank you. My doors will be too small for any carousel unfortunately. I have a structural pillar one side of corner and the other side the sink needs to be central under the window so i dont have any flexibility on cupboard size hence being bespoke.

This is a helpful layout for a corner cupboard- the example has two doors but if you hinge the doors together with piano hinge, they open even clearer.
The two offset shelves hold a lot whilst being visible and easy to reach
Just check the dimensions of the cupboard so it works with the 2 hinged doors ideally without the bulky L shaped "spacer" section.

We had this in our old kitchen. I liked it, it was a good use of space.
The only downside was that it was hard to reach things at the back of the bottom shelf.

Thank you that is great to vizualize with the photo as that is the type of size opening i guess we would have or maybe less as ours is inframe style

Ours works well. We keep big things in it like baking trays, slow cooker, mixing bowls, so even with the frame you should find something you can get in and out ok.

We are also missing a chunk out of the far corner because of a pillar. That's fine by me, it means everything can be in reach.

Ours has a 'Lazy Steve' in it for easy access, but if you whirl it round a bit too fast things can get flung off.

Yes, we have that type, it was a conscious decision and it works well.

We deliberately chose not to have a carousel, it takes up unnecessary space. The back of the cupboard is great for stuff we don't use very often; cake stands, spare crockery, Christmas tableware etc.

Does anyone have very small doors? We are looking at 900 by 900 unit but as it is inframe the doors are only 260 wide as frame is 40. Thanks

Our inframe doors are each 290mm wide and we have strut at the centre, which is the frame (iyswim). We have found no problems with this setup.

Ours is exactly like that, things have fallen down back as dh didn't put a proper back on it but it is very useful

We have one. I use boxes to organise everything, so much easier than the carousel thingy I had in my last kitchen, which was a waste of time!

That shelf system looks better than a carousel. I hate my carousel!

Inframe doors are a rubbish solution for narrow units - old fashioned kitchens which they try to copy, never had such narrow cupboards or inaccessible corner cupboards.
When we had a kitchen like this we ended up bracing the doors and frames together so they opened as one on corner units so they were actually accessible.

A 900 x 900 corner unit needs to have a fully opening door or it will be worse than nothing, and ideally bespoke sized doors that meet at a hinge in the corner, 330 or something, rather than standard 300 doors and a spacer.

I'm not sure that was entirely clear but the picture is a good example.

Just been and measured ours. The doors are 31cm each and it doesn't have a pillar.so it looks more like NotMe's picture. As a pp said the back is useful for the very occasional stuff but I keep a lot of frequently used stuff just inside the door that opens first.

Mine is the same as the one above, the 2 doors hinged together. It is the pan and casserole cupboard, pans on top shelf and the casseroles under/frying pans below.

In the last house the corner unit had pull out baskets which helped physically but was less efficient for storage.

PS The doors are 31cm each but hinged as one.

Instead of the L shaped cupboard could you get a diagonal one?

diy-kitchens.com/kitchen-units/corner-base/diagonal/

Thanks - it is a period kitchen in a period house so cant have diagonal. Unfortunately the unit cant be bigger as it has to fit between structural pillar. luckily it is the only corner unit in 8m x 5 kitchen as i couldnt cope with any more to try to plan for. I tried so hard not to have any but only way would be to move butler sink under window or a structural pillar!

Why not have a 90x90 with a diagonal door across the corner ? It would be about 40cm so better access with the frame taken off.

Mine is the same as NotMe however we put the top shelf in and it is straight, not a 90 degree one meaning one side is full height from the bottom shelf to the top of the cabinet.

We also made the top shelf slightly more shallow than the full depth (Ikea) so I could fit the food processor on the bottom shelf and the feed tube is in front of the top shelf. It also meant my Instant Pot sits on the bottom shelf too in the full height bit and is really easy to lift out as there is nothing in the way.

Stuff that lives under the top shelf area is the less used stuff such as cast iron casserole dishes or the big batch cooking pot.