Simple Kitchen Storage Upgrades - How We Made Our Cabinets Work Smarter

The old drawers in those narrow cabinets also suffered from thick framing, which stole extra space that could have been put to good use. Plus, they were shallow and narrow, which limited what we could store in them.

This is where things took a turn for the better. By taking out those three narrow cabinets and replacing them with a door leading to the new kitchen porch...

...we made room for a brand-new 24-inch base cabinet in what had been a totally inaccessible corner. In the old layout, that corner didn’t even have a lazy Susan or a pull-out shelf, like most kitchens today. Instead, the old cabinets blocked any usable space there.