I just put a trash bowl on the counter and throw everything away all at once when I’m done cooking.
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Praise be unto Anoia.
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Yeah you do! 
Here’s a pic from when it was mostly finished (which is it’s current state today, only more well-used):
The lower cabinets on the left ( 4 total) are the rollers. The space between their tops and the fixed countertop is perfect for storing cutting boards. I wish I had a pic of them all out. I make a U-shaped workstation for doing eggplant parm or other breading stuff, then roll them back under. We’ve had a couple “galette” parties where we station them around the living room for people to roll out dough. I don’t know why more builders don’t do this.
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I expect its because most buyers are buying for the look as much as or more so than the practicality. I also think buyers don’t know what they are missing. Add also the additional cost of casters (I have $5k to furnish a kitchen, what do I throw in?)
A kitchen designer operating with a large budget will push for the most cabinets possible, since a small cabinet costs about as much as large cabinet (same with windows). A builder will use the largest, simplest cabinets possible since they fill the space for less cost.
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Hey, now. I resemble that remark. I think my kitchen is beautious!
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That setup would bring me back to making my own pasta from scratch. The only reason I don’t anymore is the cleanup. Flour gets everywhere.
The exposed beams, the inverted galvanized trough as an extraction hood; just 
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I think yours looks beautiful too! I was speaking in the general sense.
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I know I’m getting annoyingly off-topic - but Mr. Linkey made the range hood fan. It’s outfitted top and bottom with programmable LED lights, and has a very good ventilation rate. Disco party in the house! He does most of the metal work, I do the design and woodwork stuff. It’s a great partnership.
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I can’t remember if it was on This Old House years ago, or if it was from New Yankee Workshop, where they did a whole season on a kitchen project, but there was a video of a system of cabinetry which had all sorts of clever uses of space like that… I want to say that they had those exact corner drawers, which are brilliant…
It might be on one of these videos for the Kitchen Project season:
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Why don’t you have a show on HGTV?! Those roving cabinets are genius.
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Similarly there a lot of metro rack and universal shelving covers out there. Mostly cloth but there are some hard, clip on versions.
Thing is they’re expensive and very ugly/utilitarian. And you have the added issue of storing the covers during use. So it’s really not practical at home, particularly with hard covers. It would work in a basement if your using that kind of rack for storage, but it doesn’t seem so good for usable kitchen stuff.
What I’ve seen people do with movable open shelving is put a solid shelf on the top, then hang nice drapes along the sides. I’ve even seen people bodge sliding closet doors on there.
Thing is the drapes thing tends to look kinda goofy and college studenty, I do not like it. But then I do like the way these open racks look in a kitchen to begin with. And with doors you’re basically trying to construct closed cabinets.
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I suppose you could go for a car shop aesthetic with chrome tool racks and rolling shutters. Now I wonder whether those snap-on racks and rolling tool boxes might make for a good kitchen interior?
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Solution: Buy a round house!
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I know a number of people who use mechanics tool boxes for kitchen tools. Usually as counter top storage. Most of them are professionals who are looking for some good utilitarian storage for various things. And don’t much care about the aesthetics for one or two things that will be in the kitchen.
I know one guy who has a full sized tool chest up in his kitchen. It works really well as a single thing, for the right stuff and I’ve considered the tool box before.
But I’ve been poking around for a kitchen cart or moveable island for the apartment. I’ve seen a lot of people use this kind of mobile work bench or tool box as a base.
The idea is to replace the bench top with butcher block, or use it to mount butcher block. Those Home Depot ones come in a bunch of sizes, have an integrated power strip in the side. Places where you can mount pot racks and stuff.
All together it’s comparable in price to a ready made island from a place like Ikea. With the benefit of an actual butcher block top, rather than veneer. You can do it cheaper if you haunt sales, and you don’t have to buy it all in one go.
The trade off is you lose the option of any open shelving, which I don’t think is neccisarily useful under a counter top. And unless you get a custom cut top for it you don’t get seating space for bar stools.
I don’t think I could stand a whole kitchen done that way. But do like the idea of the cart.
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Or a Futuro house!
https://thefuturohouse.com/Futuro-Livingstone-Illinois-USA.html
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Isn’t that more oval? 
And @Doctor_Faustus I thought of that, too… or a yurt… but I was thinking more modern? Or permanent…?
And now I can’t find any gifs or images from Grace and Frankie about yurts… oh well…
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