The kitchen cabinets as a workshop for food

dezignhome.blogspot.com The kitchen is actually a workshop, mostly for a woman. She starts ‘out with raw material—groceries—and ends up with a finished product—a meal. How fast the job goes depends, as in any shop, on readily accessible supplies and proper tools. The cabinets should be designed to speed work by working smoothly themselves—and to keep working for years to come. Supply areas are grouped around the major work centers, such as range, refrigerator and sink, so that an entire operation can be completed at each point before moving on to the next, saving steps.

Shelves are just deep enough to hold one pan or one dish, so there’s no reaching over something in front to get at something else in back. Doors and drawers, built to take abuse, opeii and close at a touch, eliminating jams that jar even the best cook’s good humor. The cabinets are designed as self-contained units. The frame-type construction for the counters insures lasting strength, and the notched joints can be easily cut by hand. A single center runner for each drawer, unusual in kitchen cabinets, not only does a better job of guiding than ordinary side rails, but is actually just as easy to make.

For the upper cupboards, use the rabbeted and dadoeci joints shown. Plywood, a bit more costly than solid stock, will ‘pay off in its resistance to splitting and warping in an area where heat and moisture levels arc always high. Whether you’re building new cabinets or reorganizing old ones, you can adopt many of the ideas shown here to custoiiitailor the kitchen shop to a real smooth- flowing production line.

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