Here's how to make your machines disappear
Appliance garages let you store coffeemakers, toasters, and blenders behind cabinet doors, and adding electrical outlets to the back lets you use heavy items in place.
Panel-ready appliances blend into your kitchen by accepting custom cabinetry panels that match your existing cabinets, creating a seamless look across your space.
Pull-out shelves in lower cabinets keep your small appliances accessible while clearing counter space, and lightweight models make lifting and moving easier for your back.
Hiring a local cabinet professional provides reliable guidance on appliance garage installation, panel mounting, and pull-out shelf fitting to keep your kitchen functional and clutter-free.
You dream of a sleek clutter-free kitchen out of the pages of your favorite design magazine. Yet, instead, your space resembles more of an appliance showroom. Thanks to your collection of machines—from your multi-cooker and microwave to your stove and oven—your kitchen is a sea of stainless steel. Read on for ideas on how to take back precious counter space and keep your appliances from stealing the show.
An appliance garage is a hidden cabinet space for your appliances. Consider this type of set-up for a breakfast or coffee station—complete with your coffeemaker, coffee grinder, tools, mugs, and toaster. Or use it to store multiple items, such as your food processor, slow cooker, and blender.
Most importantly, if the base of your appliance garage is your countertop, add electrical outlets to the back of the cabinets. Then designate this storage for your heaviest items, like your standing mixer and food processor. This way, you can use these cumbersome items in place, no heavy lifting required.
For the ultimate camouflage treatment, you may want to consider purchasing appliances that are pull-out drawers. You can find fridges, dishwashers, warming drawers, and microwaves in this format. Usually, the 24- to 30-inch-wide pull-out drawers are installed in kitchen islands. Since you’ll definitely need more cold storage space than one or two drawers can provide, think of refrigerated drawers as supplementary to your main appliance.
Integrated appliances are permanently built into kitchen walls or cabinets, which helps them blend into their surroundings. To camouflage them even further, opt for panel-ready models, which let you face your fridge or dishwasher with the same cabinetry you’re using for the rest of your kitchen. Your cabinet company can also fabricate matching panels and then mount them on top of your appliances. Choose fully integrated (rather than built-in) panel-ready appliances for the most effective disguise since these will sit flush with your cabinets.
Install pull-out or swing-out shelves in your lower cabinets and use them to store small to midsize appliances, like toasters and electric can openers. To make this strategy more ergonomic, purchase light-weight machines. That way, you won’t overtax your back when lifting these items and placing them on your countertop.
Refrigerators tend to stick out more than their surrounding cabinets since standard cabinets and fridges are different depths. To make your fridge blend in, you can recess it—so long as your home has a room with extra space behind your appliance. Just ask your carpenter or contractor to build a recessed area into the interior wall that can accommodate your fridge. Alternatively, you can ask your contractor to make the cabinets on the same wall as your fridge match its depth.
If you have the space, create a pantry and use it to store your appliances. Although walk-ins are ideal, since they’re the roomiest, you can even repurpose an armoire or media cabinet as a freestanding pantry.
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