Originally Posted by
Keith Pleas
I'm not sure about the usability of this design. If you just use the front shelves, then - ok - they're easy to reach in to. And the door shelves will get a lot of use.
But that set of back shelves...1) You open a door - whoops, you must open BOTH doors 2) you swing a set of front shelves almost 180deg to access the back shelf 3) get your item 4) swing the front shelf 180deg back (you have to do this because there isn't room to close the doors with the front shelf swung 5) you close both doors. And you have to do ALL of that to put it back.
This might work for me - I'm location dependent so if I put the rice on the left-side top back shelf, I will always go look there. But it wouldn't work for my wife, who sticks things in the first available space that fits. So, not knowing where something MIGHT be, I'd be swinging those front shelves a lot just to get a glimpse of what MIGHT be on those back shelves.
With pull out shelves / drawers you always have full visibility to help locate what you're looking for. And you won't have that awkward situation of not being able to close the doors with the front shelves swung over.