I never built a kitchen where convenient
access to storage and spaceefficiency
were not important to the
client. Over the years, kitchen hardware
makers have answered these
needs with catalogues full of pullout,
fold-down, pop-up, and swivel
devices designed to make kitchen
storage more accessible and to make
use of every inch of space. Years ago,
though, when I was starting out as a
custom cabinetmaker, space-efficiency
basically meant a good design
and a lazy susan in every corner —
at least insofar as the budget would
allow.
There were originally two types of
lazy susans — the full-round version,
usually found in upper corner cabinets,
and the pie-cut version, for Lshaped
base cabinets. I never really
liked pie-cut lazy susans