September 11, 2012By The Kitchen Think

It would be really inconvenient and annoying if you didn’t have enough storage space in your new kitchen. These tricks will coax valuable storage space out of your kitchen – in places you wouldn’t expect! A great storage space idea under the sink…

August 17, 2012By Blum Technical Team

With Ruby’s arrival in mind I recently purchased a standard 800mm wide (720mm high) kitchen base unit. It was supplied with one shelf. I moved the bottom hinge position, added 3 inner drawers & a gadget board which I mounted on a full extension runner to create…

August 13, 2012By The Kitchen Think

Imagine that you are putting everything away in your new kitchen and you suddenly realise that not everything will fit! The amount of space required can vary greatly. That’s why it is so important to think about what actually needs to be stored during the planning phase…

July 31, 2012By The Kitchen Think

The best way to test how practical a kitchen is and how well the ‘workflows’ function is by using examples from everyday kitchen life. Imagine that you are preparing breakfast in the morning. You need cornflakes from the larder unit, a cereal bowl, a coffee mug…

July 9, 2012By The Kitchen Think

1. Plan full extensions in base cabinets…retrieving objects from a shelf in the base cabinet is a difficult task for all kitchen users. Low bending is often required, the overview of items is poor and you often have to remove part of the cabinet contents to get to items that you want at the back.

June 27, 2012By The Kitchen Think

The corner areas of any kitchen are notoriously difficult areas to design and work in – especially the storage area under the worktop. It’s a zone where a big dark recess ends up being crammed with forgotten “use only occasionally” implements and devices.