The Boss's Kitchen: Part 4 (Perimeter-Stove Wall)

This week's "Boss's Kitchen" will be all about the perimeter of the kitchen. Last week we tackled the sink wall so this week we will move onto the stove wall. We left off with the trash pullout so let's start this week's post off with the cabinet to the right of it, the lazy susan.

Lazy susan cabinet with door that tucks away when
cabinet is open and onions/potatoes storage.

This picture shows the susan open and illustrates how the doors rotate within the cabinet so that are tucked away when the susan is opened. This is great as you don't end up with a door hanging around when you try to get in and out of the cabinet. Spinning the susan farther will bring the doors back out of the cabinet and they center themselves correctly in the opening.

The cabinet to the right of the susan is where we store our onions and potatoes. This cabinet comes with three fiberglass bins that are very easy to clean. It is also a great cabinet as it keeps the root vegetables in the dark and handy to the stove and sink for rinsing and chopping.

Symmetrical cabinets on either side of hood.

Above the onion and potato cabinet is a nice wide wall cabinet. This cabinet is sized so that it, and the cabinet to the right of the hood, are both the same width. This makes the hood section look symmetrical. 

Custom spice pullout, opened.

To the right of the second wall cabinet, we have a custom spice pullout that we make and design at the store. When I moved our showroom to Waterford, I had an extra wide drawer left over in storage and figured out a way to invert it and turn it into a 24" deep spice pullout. Since then, we now make the pullout with adjustable shelves and have super strong tracks so it will always operate smoothly!

Below this cabinet, we have our pots and pans storage drawers. The drawers are 12" deep so they fits all our cookware very nicely. I installed a wooden divider in the drawer to hold the lids to one side in order to keep the drawer more organized and minimize the "search for the corresponding lid!" game.

Pots and pans storage drawer.

To the right of both the spice pullout and the pots and pans drawers, we have our deep tall pantry cabinet. This cabinet comes with five adjustable roll-outs in the larger lower section that we use for our baking goods. The upper section has an adjustable shelf and makes for nice storage for some of our pyrex dishes.

Tall pantry cabinet

This concludes the stove wall of our kitchen. If you have any questions, please ask us on our Facebook page or send us an email. Stay tuned for next week's post on the refrigerator wall of my kitchen.



All the best,Bill Hecht
President & CEO
David Hecht Custom Kitchens

The Boss's Kitchen: Part 3 (Perimeter-Sink Wall)

This week's "Boss's Kitchen" will be all about the perimeter of the kitchen. This is going to be the largest post, as there is A LOT to talk about (in both placement of items and special features of the cabinets) so I think I'll break it into two posts (this one for the sink wall and the next post for the range wall). Let's get started!

Sink wall of kitchen

Let's start with the wall that our sink is on.

9" wide cabinet with adjustable shelf

We start off with a 9" wide cabinet that has an adjustable shelf. This type of cabinet is perfect for storing cutting boards, baking trays, cooling racks, etc. (basically anything that is flat and long). Since the shelf is adjustable, it allows us to raise or lower it depending on what size item we want to store. To the right of this cabinet is our dishwasher. We purchased a Bosch 500 series (more on that in a later post). Above both of these cabinets is a nice wide wall cabinet. All of our wall cabinets are 36" high which gives us three adjustable shelves. This particular cabinet is perfect for storing our dishes as it is right above the dishwasher and in close proximity to our table.

Sink and double trash pullout

Next to our dishwasher, we have our sink. We selected a nice deep 23" wide single bowl sink. Having a nice big single bowl sink allows us to let large pots, pans and trays soak inside it. This keeps them off the counter and helps minimize scrubbing (the bane of everyone's existence!). Under the sink cabinet, we store all of our cleaning products and have a rubber mat that can hold up to three gallons of water (pretty nice so we don't have to worry about the cabinets being damaged if there is a slow leak we don't catch right away - though hopefully we never have to deal with that problem!).

To the right of our sink is our double trash pullout. We use one bin for trash and one for recyclables. The cabinet manufacturer, Wood-Mode, uses a solid board under the drawer above the trash bins to keep anything that could fall out of the drawer from landing in a bin. 

This concludes the sink wall of our kitchen. If you have any questions, please ask us on our Facebook page or send us an email. Stay tuned for next week's post on the second half of our kitchen perimeter.

All the best,
Bill Hecht
President & CEO
David Hecht Custom Kitchens