THE MENU REVISED KITCHEN DESIGN III

This design contemplates cabinetry below the countertops.

 

This cabinetry ideally should be drawers, for a variety of reasons.

 

Drawers can be pulled out, whereas fixed shelves behind cabinets with doors cannot. The doors themselves of lower cabinets conflict with access and kitchen floor space movements. Doors also limit somewhat the ability to design useful roll out shelving behind doors. That is, the roll out shelving is slightly narrower than the doors, to allow the shelving to roll out through the opened cabinet doors...

 

So, just dispense with lower cabinet doors altogether, and go with drawers. They can be deep and capacious.

 

They also allow use of the whole area of the drawer, whereas lower cabinet with fixed shelving often call for the upper shelves to be truncated to allow for access to the rear of the lower cabinet level.

 

This makes spaces at the back of lower cabinets accessible in ways never before possible in traditional fixed shelving designs.