If you’re keen to increase the storage space in your home, making use of corner cabinet ideas could be the answer.
Corner cabinets have been popular for centuries, making their debut as part of the fashionable living room around the early Georgian period. They provided the perfect place to store pretty porcelain cups and saucers, glassware or decorative ornaments and sometimes they were even built into the corner of the room as a permanent fixture.
Today corner cabinets are still a popular piece of furniture, not least as they are cleverly designed to make use of the space available in the corners of a room, such as a corner of your kitchen, a dead corner in your living room, or a tricky dead space corner in a bathroom.
In this post we’re exploring the benefits of using corner cabinets for storage in your home, and offer insight into some of the best corner storage solution options for additional storage.
Benefits of corner cabinets
What makes a corner cabinet a clever home storage choice? If you think about the storage options you have in your home, the chances are that they’ll be an odd corner that’s not being used effectively. Perhaps it’s empty or unused as traditionally shaped pieces of furniture don’t fit into the available space properly. That’s where corner cabinets come in as an effective solution, as they are specially designed to fit into awkward corners of older homes or modern buildings, providing you with extra functional storage space to put to good use. The design of corner cabinets tends to feature a triangular base and they often have a curved cupboard front too, so that they fit efficiently into the space and provide a great use of space.
Corner cabinets can be a striking feature in a room, as well as be extremely useful for storing things such as glassware so it’s easily to hand without being in the way. Corner units are also great for use as TV cabinets to maximise on space and give you a dedicated place to position your TV. Corner units of this type often have open shelving underneath, or pull-out drawers, that are perfect to use for storing a collection of DVDs, or for putting your TV controllers out of sight when not in use.
12 Best corner cabinet ideas for your home
Are you looking for a corner cabinet to provide easier access to storage in your home? There are a huge variety of corner cabinets available, from antique corner cabinets, wall cabinets and lower cabinets, to tall cabinets, clever corner kitchen cabinets and more modern design pieces. We’ve tracked down 12 of the best corner cabinets available, to suit a range of different budgets, styles, rooms of your house and storage uses.
1. Romsey oak corner TV cabinet, Oak Furnitureland
Ideal in compact living rooms, the Romsey corner TV cabinet is the perfect home for your TV, media player, gaming console and more. Made from 100% solid oak, it has rounded corners, and a flat-fronted drawer with carved handles, perfect for hidden storage. £369.99, available from Oak Furnitureland.
2. Imari mango corner TV cabinet, Casa Bella
The two large shelves of this sturdy cabinet offer lots of space for your components while the cupboards are perfect for your DVDs, Blurays and games. Made from natural, solid mango wood combined with a dark metal frames, this unit has a contemporary, industrial feel that’s perfect for modern decors. £314.99, available from Casa Bella.
3. Parquet solid oak corner dresser, Oak Furnitureland
Make full use of the corner space in a room with the Parquet corner cabinet design dresser. It’s made from solid oak all through, and features decoration based on a classic wood block design. Mid-century modern style features in the slim oak legs and metal, bronze coloured handles. This dresser is made with classic carpentry, including dovetail joints on drawers. Was £679.99 now £599.99, available from Oak Furnitureland.
4. One-drawer corner shelf, Melody Maison
This mirrored floating one-drawer corner shelf is made of wood and metal completed with beveled glass panels. Ideal for a bathroom, it would also make a compact floating dressing table for those with smaller spaces. £54.95, available from Melody Maison.
5. Dakota dark mango corner bookcase, Casa Bella
Thisl solid Indian mango corner bookcase is perfect for smaller rooms and features tall shelves and a spacious cupboard. Made entirely from solid mango fruitwood from sustainable sources, it’s finished in a rich walnut stain. Was £394.99 now £379.99, available from Casa Bella.
6. Lucille corner cabinet, Sweetpea & Willow
This classic French-style cabinet is made of solid mahogany wood with a glazed finish. Pop this cabinet in the corner of your living room and add all the little bits and bobs you want to be showcased to one of the shelves. Was £1,040 now £780, available from Sweetpea & Willow.
7. Kuga corner shelving unit, Woood
The Woood Kuga corner shelving unit makes better use of unused space. Create a bookcase in the kitchen for cookbooks or a reading nook in the home office with your collection of hardbacks and a comfy armchair to go with them. Or maybe a stand in the hallway for keys and post? Made from shaped metal with a weathered, matte black finish and half-rounded shelves, it costs £199.20 (was £249) from Cuckooland.
8. Corner cabinet in black lacquer, Shimu
Handcrafted from reclaimed elm wood this black lacquer corner cabinet is a great way to make the best use of space in a room. Great in a dining room as a drinks cabinet or for crockery, or in a reception room where space is at a premium. The cabinet has four removable shelves inside. The simple style and thick, solid frames are typical of furniture from northern China, while the large brass door hardware gives an unmistakable oriental feel. £1,595, available from www.shimu.co.uk.
9. Windsor corner cabinet, Ercol
The Windsor dining collection is archetypal ercol and has been in production in various guises since the late 1950s. Created by ercol’s founder Lucian Ercolani, Windsor cabinets have become design classics. Made using traditional craft techniques and modern machining these cabinets have the beauty of displayed dovetail joints and iconic oval wooden handles. This corner cabinet costs £2,590 and is available from www.ercol.com.
10. Kelsi steel corner bookcase, Trent Austin Design
When you need more storage space and make full use of the corner space in your home, consider adding this neat four-tier corner bookcase. £45.99, available from Wayfair.
11. GoodHome Pebre pull out kitchen corner cabinet, B & Q
This clever kitchen corner storage solution is designed to offer maximum flexibility and ensure you can easily access everything you need. It’s available from B&Q.
12. Lucia chalk white corner basin vanity, Bathroom Mountain
This nifty corner bathroom floor cabinet also has a basin vanity built into it. It’s made from engineered wood with a high quality matt chalk white finish and it’s perfect for use in an en suite, downstairs loo or bathroom. Available from Bathroom Mountain, for £139.
Custom built corner cabinets
If you can’t find the right style or design of corner cabinet for your needs, then it’s worth thinking about having one custom built. Custom built pieces are often made for kitchen corner cabinets, for example, where you want to maximise storage space in a new kitchen and ensure the flow of the design is kept throughout the room.
Professional kitchen designers will be able to come up with some kitchen corner cabinet ideas to suit all your storage needs and ensure that so-called blind cabinets – the space where two perpendicular lines of cabinets meet – don’t become wasted space. For example, they could incorporate them into a well designed corner pantry, featuring a classic lazy susan system that allows you to easily access items at the back of the cabinet, specially build corner pull-out drawers or design an elegant diagonal corner cabinet.
Another option for ensuring you don’t have wasted space in a blind cabinet is the German designed magic corner cabinet, made by Hafele, which features pull out metal shelves.
There are lots of creative ways in which corner cabinets can be built into awkward corner spaces. In a bedroom, for example, a corner unit could incorporate a wardrobe, corner drawers and plenty of closed or open shelves that can be used for storing clothes, shoes and accessories. If you have a small bathroom and are lacking good storage options, a custom built corner sink cabinet with a lower corner cabinet underneath it could help solve the problem of the best way to position the sink and still have room for storing cleaning products or toilet rolls.
Final thoughts
Hopefully you can now see why we love corner cabinets so much and why they’re a great option to include in your home. Whether you find a ready made piece or opt for a custom built corner cabinet for a kitchen or bathroom, it should provide you with a better use of space in a room and offer a great solution to your storage needs.
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