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Kitchen query - narrow pan drawers?
If you had to use wall units as base units because your kitchen was very narrow, is there a way of getting pan drawers in?
If one side of the kitchen was normal depth units to house a dishwasher and sink, the oven at one end of the kitchen and then very shallow units down the other side of the kitchen would it be possible to have drawers on the narrow side?
If one side of the kitchen was normal depth units to house a dishwasher and sink, the oven at one end of the kitchen and then very shallow units down the other side of the kitchen would it be possible to have drawers on the narrow side?
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I have a box kitchen that has a tall but narrow pan drawer, I just use it as a chopping board junk drawer, just stack my cookware at the bottom of a normal bottom cupboard. I dont wide cookware though!
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If you have ceiling height, you could consider hanging your pans, not every ones cup of tea.
In stead of using wall units, use base units, cut the depth out of them and alter the depth of the drawers, any carpenter/builder can do that for you.
Who knows you might get a pan drawer out of doing it that way.
I dont mean that they shouldnt be deep (as in from top to bottom), I mean that they should be shallow (from back of the wall to front of the drawer).
Top to bottom = Height
Back of wall to front of drawer = Depth
Use base units and cut the depth out of them.
If you think of them as just carcasses you could look at Ikea's narrow bedroom/wardrobe system (PAX?).... they have units/draw systems that are 35cm deep I think... even if you just used their drawer runners that could be helpful.
The plastic or metal runners of drawers to alter will be fiddly but nothing a jig saw, a file and a decent handyman cant take care of in his sleep.
Ok, thanks I never thought of that, I wouldnt have thought you could cut down the drawers the runners really. Anyway, as usual I am asking a pie in the sky question about a house we dont know if we are buying or not. The kitchen is minuscule and we wouldnt have money to extend.
http://www.cabinetjoint.com/cabinet-accessories-refacing/lemans-corner-pull-out-shelf/
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TOP-QUALITY-SELF-CLOSING-STEEL-DRAWER-RUNNERS-300mm-/400329761018?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_KitchenFurniture_EH&hash=item5d358360fa
thats for corners though, if we had the kitchen Im talking about the corner on one side could possibly take that, but the corner on the other side of the oven wont be able to, because whilst the end of the kitchen can take standard units of 60cm depth, the side running off that would only be able to take units around 35cm deep.
Its actual pan drawers Im talking about, I have a lot of cookware to store (pans, casseroles, baking trays, ramekins etc)
Im not sure the length woujld need to be altered, they are 30cm long runners which presumably would be ok in 30cm depth units?