How to Hide Kitchen Appliances in Your Small Kitchen

Coffee makers, blenders, toasters, and juicers are all excellent appliances to have, but they can also clutter your counters. Maximize your space by following these nifty tips and tricks to hide kitchen appliances:

Swing-Out Shelves

Swing-out shelves can provide you with two more layers of shelving, improving visibility and making your food and appliances more accessible. With narrow, adjustable shelves, you can easily hide kitchen appliances in one of these cabinets.

You can also pair your appliances with the products used with them. For example, you can put your coffeemaker on your cabinet’s deeper interior, and your coffee grounds on the swing-out shelf.

Corner Cabinets

Corner cabinets are perfect for unusually-sized items, like your appliances. Their shelves are adjustable to best fit your appliance. Depending on size, you should also consider installing a lazy susan so that items pushed into the back of your corner cabinet don’t disappear into the abyss.

Give Your Mixer a Lift

Mixers are incredibly useful, but they take up a ton of space, so you should install a mixer lift in a cabinet with a drawer.

Mixer lifts are spring-loaded mechanisms that swing smaller appliances out from its under-counter storage space and lift them up to prep-work height. While mixer lifts are meant for mixers, you can store other bulky appliances in them.

Vertical Shelves

Small, modern kitchens require you to maximize every inch of real estate, so make full use of your vertical space. Instead of living on your counter, install floating shelves along the side of an empty wall, and make each of them large enough to hold one or two of your appliances.

Determine which appliances will go where, and take measurements before installing.

Appliance Garages

An appliance garage is like a small house for your kitchen appliances. Apart from usually being sideways, they blend into your cabinets.

For extra credit, you can also install dividers in your garage, giving each individual appliance its unique home.

Train Shelves

Pop-up and pull-out shelves are helpful, but they fail to measure up to a stylish train shelf. Train shelves have pull out drawers that stack diagonally atop one another, making the items on the bottom shelf as accessible as those on the top. Installing these in one of your drawers is a terrific way to hide kitchen appliances. They also give you the opportunity to grab more than one item at a time.

Hide Kitchen Appliances in Your Pantry

Dedicate some shelf space to infrequently used kitchen appliances. This keeps them out of the way, but still makes them easily accessible when you need them. If your pantry space is limited, install a door shelf for some of your smaller items. Then, you can fill the vacant space with your appliances.

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