Article from the Garden and Home Magazine May 2015.
Make your kitchen more efficient with these stylish ways to maximise storage space.
Top Drawer
Optimise your drawer system with the Iegrabox from Blum, available from Eclipse. The sleek design ensures there’s a place for everything. It’s available as a drawer, inner drawer, high-fronted pull-out or inner pull-out.
At just 12,8mm thick, the cabinet profile is stable enough to present sagging even when fully extended or loaded to the maximum carrying capacity of 70kg. And of course Blum’s motion technology makes for smooth opening and closing.
By Design
If you’re keen to exercise your creativity, the UCAN range offers you the chance to customise your kitchen cupboards.
There’s a wide variety of finishes to choose from as well as accessories such as handles and basket drawers. Especially practical is the slim pull-out kitchen larder that comes with adjustable racks and can be easily retro-fitted into an existing broom cupboard. Available from selected Game stores.
All in one
Custom designed by The Kitchen Studio, this stylish lime washed solid beech cabinet provides spacious shelving for those special occasion platters, cake stands and tea sets.
The unit’s lower section features pull out serving trays and solid beech butcher blocks which can he easily removed and reinserted after use. Two sets of open ventilated baskets with perforated stainless steel bases for vegetables, bread and other pantry items are the final addition to this comprehensive storage unit.
Tight Corner
Blum’s ingenious Space Corner is the answer to that awkward corner cabinet. Its full extension runners allow for complete visibility of your stored goods at a glance as well as access to items placed at the back. With the option of a variety of heights and widths, the Space Corner can hold up to 50kg and still slide open effortlessly thanks to Blum’s integrated Blumotion.
Great Divide
Oppcein’s solid European Beech drawer divider has been designed to offer space for up to 26 plates by storing them in an upright position.
The handsome organiser provides nine additional compartments for bottles and containers. The width of the unit is 825mm and can be coordinated with Blum drawer systems.
Corner it
The lazy Susan pull-out comer basket from Oppein is the answer to those awkward cupboard corners that often end up as dead space because they’re so hard to reach. By means of a sophisticated soft-close runner system, the stainless Reel storage baskets glide out as the cupboard door is opened.
Pots and dishes are easily accessed and can be stowed away just as conveniently. The system can be retro-fitted in spaces of up to 968mm wide and 570mm deep.
Perfect Fit
Elfa’s unique ventilated basket storage system is all about versatility. Using different sized baskets that slide into runner frames of varying heights and widths, the system can be customised to fit any space.
The white epoxy-coated baskets are available from selected Makro and Builders Warehouse stores as easy- to assemble individual units or pre-packed kits.
Small and Smart
Blum’s Aventos HK-S lift system proves that no space is too small to be used effectively. The compact lift mechanism can work in cabinets that are as little as 170mm deep making those small spaces above a pantry unit or an appliance such as a microwave especially suitable.
By opening upwards, the cabinet door doesn’t obstruct access to the storage space.
Big Easy
At 925cm long and 475cm deep, Oppein’s cutlery divider eliminates the frustration of rummaging around for utensils and cutlery by offering an overview with one slide. Designed to accommodate items of all shapes and sizes as well as a knife block, the divider is made from solid beech.
Sources
Eclipse (local Blum distributor), Elfa, Oppein, The Kitchen Studio, UCAN
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