No blind corners

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Cornered Does your kitchen design include an "L-shaped" run of cabinets? Then you've got an important decision to make-what to do with the corner cabinet. For those who have not experienced corner cabinets before, items just seem to disappear in there. So you get down on your hands and knees to hunt for that item you know you stashed in there... ...or you can look at other options such as these Merillat solutions.   Merillat Masterpiece® Base Blind Corner with Swing-out   Merillat Classic® Base Blind Corner Cabinet with Lazy Susan   Merillat Classic® Base Corner Lazy Susan Resource     Merillat Kitchen Cabinets

Chute!! what a time saver.

While laundry chutes are a  real time saver some restictions my apply depending on your building officials requlations. Chute! 2 story homes, with the owner's suite on the main floor (sometimes referred to as 1½ story) and secondary bedrooms upstairs, present a natural dilemma-laundry.  You want the laundry facilities conveniently located on the main floor.  But retrieving dirty clothes from upstairs...well, that often leads to anguish over not having certain clothes clean! Consider a laundy chute! Laundry chutes are not a new idea, but they're not found in many new homes either.  Unless you are planning both an upstairs laundry for the kids plus a washer/dryer on the main floor, designing in a laundry chute may be an amenity you'll wonder how you would have ever lived without.  Just be sure to have a self-closing door on one end (for fire safety.) See some great laundry chute ideas.

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Rear Entry Foyer Designs

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Rear Entry Foyer   One of our pet peeves is entering into a home from the garage and stepping directly into the kitchen or breakfast room or... Since most of us have made the door leading into the home from the garage our primary entrance into the home, we need a transition space-a place to take shoes off (and leave them if the rule is no shoes worn in the house;) a place for coats (closet or hooks;) and a place to set things (cabinet/countertop.) AND IT IS NOT THE LAUNDRY ROOM. I don't want to be reminded of the laundry waiting to be folded/put away the moment I get home. Worse yet, you know what it smells like when you don't get your kids' gym clothes washed right away Here are three examples... Modest rear entry foyer Rear entry foyer featuring a drop zone, lockers and bulk item storage. Rear entry foyer featuring a drop zone, lockers, broom closet, and large pet center. RESOURCE    Rear-Entry Foyers - Pictures showing different examples.

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Laundry Innovation

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Direct Connection   If you haven't seen it before, the thought may have never occurred to you of having a direct connection between your master bedroom closet and your laundry room.  While similar, here are two examples: Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. Providing a doorway between the laundry room and master bedroom closet. What could be more convenient than grabbing clothes straight out of the dryer and in just a couple steps they're hung in your closet?

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