smittenbritt
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Our entire kitchen was done before we moved in almost 3 yrs ago.
Our kitchen has a heavy black granite counter top (going up the entire back splash too) so there's a lot of weight I guess on the bottom cabinets.
But the cabinets are those Hampton bay ones from Home Depot that they carry in stock. So pretty cheap. My issue is storage is badly managed and I need to rethink the two bottom corner cabinets. I have decided I'm just gunna put those freestanding metal shelves with legs inside as I have found some cheap and sturdy metal ones, they will not come all the way forward to the door (I want half shelves as they are corner cabinets, for easier access.) and I won't have to screw anything through anything.
One cabinet will be easy as they never placed a shelf in there. All I will have to do is empty it and put the shelf where I want it. But the other I'm hesitant to start. It's the Hampton bay corner cabinet with lazy Suzan and the hinged two piece door. The lazy Suzan is well....... utter rubbish. It's got plastic shelves which bend if you put much weight on it. I need to store my pots and pans there and it can't handle them. The bar that runs from top to bottom has slipped and now is at a bit of an angle. I'm not entirely sure it would handle too much food it's that cheap...and it's reduced the amount of usable space in the cupboard. Without it I think I could store a lot more with the free standing shelves and some hooks. But I'm worried that the lazy Suzan may be also support for the counter top? Yeah I know it seems like a dumb question. Wood work and DIY was never my forte.
But basically I would like to know if ripping out the lazy Suzan will weaken the structure of the cabinet and I can't see anything on the product on home depots site to even hint at if it's of structural importance or not.
Our kitchen has a heavy black granite counter top (going up the entire back splash too) so there's a lot of weight I guess on the bottom cabinets.
But the cabinets are those Hampton bay ones from Home Depot that they carry in stock. So pretty cheap. My issue is storage is badly managed and I need to rethink the two bottom corner cabinets. I have decided I'm just gunna put those freestanding metal shelves with legs inside as I have found some cheap and sturdy metal ones, they will not come all the way forward to the door (I want half shelves as they are corner cabinets, for easier access.) and I won't have to screw anything through anything.
One cabinet will be easy as they never placed a shelf in there. All I will have to do is empty it and put the shelf where I want it. But the other I'm hesitant to start. It's the Hampton bay corner cabinet with lazy Suzan and the hinged two piece door. The lazy Suzan is well....... utter rubbish. It's got plastic shelves which bend if you put much weight on it. I need to store my pots and pans there and it can't handle them. The bar that runs from top to bottom has slipped and now is at a bit of an angle. I'm not entirely sure it would handle too much food it's that cheap...and it's reduced the amount of usable space in the cupboard. Without it I think I could store a lot more with the free standing shelves and some hooks. But I'm worried that the lazy Suzan may be also support for the counter top? Yeah I know it seems like a dumb question. Wood work and DIY was never my forte.
But basically I would like to know if ripping out the lazy Suzan will weaken the structure of the cabinet and I can't see anything on the product on home depots site to even hint at if it's of structural importance or not.