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Morning all
I'm just about to remove our clapped out internal fridge from the "Kitchen cupboard" in which it resides. It's being replaced by a large freestanding fridge so I have been tasked with turning the soon to be vacant built in fridge space into a storage cupboard for kitchen paraphernalia and tins etc.
Anyone have any cunning shelving / drawer solution recommendations that I could fit in there. The internal width of the cupboard is 570mm.
I have no idea about the brand of the kitchen.
Ta in advance.
Get some shelf support pins and a correct size drill bit. That plus some conti board get b and q to cut to size or a cheap rail saw, and bobs your uncle.
There's a fair chance the cabinet housing the fridge already has pre-drilled holes for the shelf support pins.
As already said. I did the same last weekend
Did this in the past using IKEA sliding internal drawers. Gave a lot of extra kitchen space.
I know what I'd do with it, but I make cupboards and drawers for a living and I don't expect you to have the skills and tools.
So, the first thing to do is get it clean and tidy inside. This might mean putting a floor and back in. Measuring internal dimensions is harder than it looks. My tip is not to measure side to side in one go, as the tape measure has to be bent. Instead make a mark with a VERY sharp pencil 100mm from one side and measure from the other side to that mark and add the 2 together. Then knock off 2mm so the resulting board has room to be moved into place.
B&Q sell suitable board and will cut it accurately for you.
Look for a pre assembled stand alone drawer unit maybe 400mm wide and stick that inside. You will now have a handy vertical space at the side to stack trays/tins/ironing board etc.
Depending on how this cupboard fixes to the rest of the kitchen, it may be easier to buy a replacement 600mm carcase from somewhere like B&Q, and just fit your old doors to it.
Cheers all. Some good advice above.
I did a bit of research on this recently and came to the same conclusions as above.
Then decided that it could wait for a while as we're having some other work done and the people with skills and knowhow will do a waaaay better job than me 🙂
Make a full-height template for the shelf support pin holes (if needed) and work from a known level, either top or bottom. Mark the sides from each corner to get level unwobbly* shelves
Measure internal width with two strips of wood, rulers, or whatever, held in a straight line with a bulldog clip (google measuring with story sticks)
*this may not be a word
Did this to our last house. B&Q did a fine job of cutting the board. It almost doubled the ahelving for mugs etc. I wouldn’t dream of cutting myself. Need proper tooling.
It's also worth checking if the width is the right width for existing kitchen shelves (570mm sounds like it might be) - I was able to drop standard ikea shelves right into my cupboards (not from ikea) without cutting
That's what I'd do - just get a full height pull out larder unit designed for your internal width.