How about a moveable work island. you can move them anywhere and have the space you need to work on where you need it.
At 04:20 PM 1/11/2009, you wrote: >Oh, what a great idea, if only I had the room. This kitchen is in the >middle of my house, and when they designed it, I wasn't around then, >they made it so that it is very open and has big arch ways going from >the entry-way into the kitchen and also going from the kitchen into >the livingroom. > >I'd love to have an island in the middle of the kitchen, but changing >all that plumbing and electrical would surely make me crazy. We are >on a cement slab, and of course, the pipes are in the slab, grumble... >At 05:37 AM 1/11/2009, you wrote: > > >It comes to my mind that what a person needs, if they have the > >space, is a rotating work station simmilar to those for tools. You > >could mount things like mixers and other appliances to it and rotate > >them when the need arises and maybe even have one of the surfaces > >free to use as an additional counter top. > >I suppose one would have to design it since I don't know how many > >appliances allow for mounting in this fashion, but its worth a thought. > >Another thought might be something like the contraption that they > >use for sewing machines, where you raise the machine up when you > >want to use it and turn it down whenits not in use thus giving you > >the flat surface for other uses. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Dale Leavens > >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] > >Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:16 AM > >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Remodel and Kitchen Aid cabinet > > > >Good morning Betsy, > > > >My sister had a device in one of her kitchens which sounds something > >like what you want. It was a platform, in this case probably 16 by > >12 inches mounted on a series of levers and springs not unlike those > >you might see for supporting a computer keyboard under a work > >surface. You open the cupboard door and this thing swings out and up > >on the levers and counterbalancing springs until it came up level > >with the counter top. I suppose it would serve the purpose you had > >in mind. This device was in her kitchen and she never liked it > >because it used up the entire cupboard cavity and she didn't have > >the sort of device she would want to put there. > > > >At the time it never occurred to me that it might serve home for a > >big mixer, I never tested it to determine if it might carry anything > >that heavy. > > > >One concern I would have is that door has to remain open while the > >platform is in use. I am pretty sure I would forget it being there > >and do myself an injury. > > > >Keeping something like a big mixer off of the surface when not in > >use though would be appealing, one only uses such a machine only > >occasionally, Few of us would use it even daily. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Betsy Whitney > >To: blindhandyman-yahoogroups.com > >Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:14 AM > >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Remodel and Kitchen Aid cabinet > > > >Aloha All, > >I hear tell that there is a cabinet designed to hold a kitchenaid > >stand mixer. From what I can tell, it has some sort of a shelf in a > >pull-out cupboard and the shelf is on a spring that lifts the mixer > >up when pull open. I would love to get the mixer off of my counter, > >but wonder if anyone has one of these or has seen one. The mixer > >weighs about thirty pounds so I don't like having to move it around > >to clean. Thanks, Betsy > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > Tim trouble Verizon FIOS support tech "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown Blindeudora list owner. To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora
