I’ve designed enough kitchens to know that even the best-laid plans can hide surprising flaws. By the time I was plotting my third kitchen, I really thought I’d cracked it on the kitchen storage ideas front. I had the dream set-up: a double-door pantry with pull-out baskets and spice racks, bins with built-in recycling sorters, and glorious double-width drawers for pots and pans. The storage of dreams, or so I thought. But there was one fail I couldn’t ignore – those feral pan lids.
My saucepans and frying pans stacked together beautifully, making the best use of every inch, but the lids? They jostled about annoyingly, forever slipping between pans or clattering onto the floor at the worst possible moment (typically when our colicky baby had finally settled). I know it’s a first-world problem, but it was the one small design oversight that regularly drove me quietly mad. So, when it came to planning kitchen number four(hopefully our last), I was determined to fix it once and for all.
