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Kitchen storage cabinet

Many housekeepers need an efficient and safe way to organize, store and utilize kitchen utensils and appliances. Efficient storage of kitchen items is also important in offices, conference rooms, garages, basements, cabins, or anywhere that it is desired to store and use kitchen equipment without using a full-kitchen space. Kitchen cabinets are provided with a number of different types of doors for closure and protection of the products stored inside the cabinets. In wooden cabinets for kitchens and bathrooms, it has long been a design practice to provide a recessed lowermost horizontal portion along the base of the cabinets to allow the front part of a person's feet to extend inwardly beyond the uppermost front surface. In a typical kitchen environment, a substantial amount of storage is provided by a plurality of floor supported storage cabinets usually topped by a countertop or work surface. Often a plurality of additional cabinets are supported above the countertop work surface in a configuration generally conforming to the arrangement of floor supported cabinets. Kitchen storage cabinets are in common use and particularly cabinets which are commonly called lowers. Lowers are those cabinets which rest upon the floor and commonly include a row of drawers along the top and several shelves below that. A kitchen cabinet have a front bottom cutout formed by receding a front bottom end of the cabinet from a standard front surface of the cabinet. The cutout allows a user standing in front of the cabinet for, for example, cooking, to place the user's toes inwardly of the standard front surface of the cabinet. A typical kitchen sink cabinet incorporates a waste receptacle under the sink. The waste receptacle includes an area in which a waste container is positioned to receive and store accumulated waste. The receptacle is usually mounted on a sliding mechanism such that the user can withdraw the receptacle hands free from the cabinet and place waste in the container.

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