How to install a corner kitchen sink

Pro: Saving Counter Space

Corners may be dark and harder to clean. Putting in a corner sink makes this underused area an active part of your kitchen design. Corner placement also permits long, uninterrupted stretches of counter space, valuable for frequent home baking and high-volume cooking.

Corner Sinks are an Efficient Use of Space

Especially in smaller kitchen layouts, using this portion of the countertop for the sink can allow a homeowner to enjoy a full or even over-sized sink basin while preserving a greater amount of counter space for food preparation and cooking activities.

The space behind your corner sink might be open, or it may have cabinets over top. Either way, you can add floating shelves or a small cabinet in this space to add more storage instead of wasting the space. A small shelf unit can be used to hold cleaning supplies, such as dish soap, sink stoppers and sponges.

Simply treat the corner base as a standard 24″ cabinet. Find a sink that has an overall dimension no more than 23″. Consider this; Often, Not always, the sink will be set back 3″ from the front frame of the cabinet. Now, three inches back, the left to right spacing is approximately 22″ between the cabinet walls.

Swing out corner cabinets are a good way to maximize the storage capabilities of a kitchen. In this traditional kitchen you can see a set of wire shelves, some installed inside the cabinet, under the counter, and some attached to the door. This combination offers easy access to all the shelves and their contents.

I have found my lazy susan to be the perfect place to keep my 9×12 glass baking dishes, glass casseroles, glass pie plates, glass loaf pans, things like that. I can stack several on top of each other and it really holds a lot. That way nothing ever falls off in the back or falls over when you spin it around.

In terms of what to store, a Lazy Susan is perfect for frequently used supplies like spices, sugars and coffee or tea sweeteners, or other general food stores. Its rotating design allows for easy access, eliminating the need to pore through various containers and create a mess to find a given item.

Use a Lazy Susan for utensils and napkins at a barbecue or picnic! You could also use one for condiments. It’ll save space on your table for other foods too.

Hide them in the cabinet corner.

Or you can install a Lazy Susan and get what you need with a quick spin. Just remember to position the pots and pans really well so that when you rotate your lazy susan, you don’t end up with the individual handles rotating out and getting stuck in the corner.

If they’re large enough, corner cabinets can be a great storage space for pots and pans. To make a cabinet organizer for pots and pans just insert a wire-wrack or lazy Susan and you’ll be able to find what you need quickly.

Lazy Susan

“This dollar store find is perfect for spices, oil and vinegar, vitamins, and supplements,” says Katie McCann, the organizing guru at Haven.

Lazy Susan Turntables – Walmart.com.