You may remember me mentioning I helped to create a dream kitchen for 2nd Man. Part of having a dream kitchen is to make sure you have easy access to your stored cooking items.
Since we designed our island, we planned for these.
There are two cabinets, one on each end. Normally, there is an inset on the end of the island that either occupies these spaces or it's dead space or some people put in a bookshelf or something. We will have plenty of bookcase space elsewhere so we decided to let them put slender cabinets on each side because we knew exactly how they would be used.
The island is, of course, conveniently located right behind the stove/cooktop/ovens.
This the end closest to the sink.
Of course, the cabinets come with two shelves. In this case, I removed one of them and put the other up at the top and created a place for all of our cutting boards! The tall ones fit nicely in the bottom and then the top shelf can hold the smaller ones just stacked on top of each other. This gives us quick access, it's right below the island countertop so we can quickly pull them out to use them, it's opposite the knife drawer (more on that coming soon) and lastly, it's also next to the sink so we can wash veggies etc before cutting.
Here is the other end, directly across from the ovens which makes it convenient for...
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...sheet pans! Just like the other cabinet above, it had two shelves but in this case I removed both because, well, baking sheets are large. 2nd Man likes to have all three sizes, full, half and quarter. Once again, it's convenient location puts it right by the ovens and under the island countertop so it's super easy to get a sheet pan out, put one some foil or parchment paper and things are ready for the oven behind you.
More things coming soon!
"Convenience" is the name of the game in the kitchen and you have it in spades! You have designed a dream kitchen!
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