Different Design Approaches to On-Demand Kitchen Counter Spa

Different Design Approaches to On-Demand Kitchen Counter Space

按需厨房柜台空间的不同设计方法

Swing-out, pull-out or slide-out?

旋出式、拉出式还是滑出式？

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January 30, 2020

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Like many of you, our kitchen is too small and we don't have enough counter space.

像你们中的许多人一样，我们的厨房太小，没有足够的柜台空间。

The main weekly PITA is when the wife and I return with groceries. To avoid using plastic bags, we shop using a duffle bag and a backpack that we pack to the gills. If we place them on the counter, there's no room to unload the stuff--our countertop is that small. So I pull two stools over to the counter, set the bags on that, and unload. It's inconvenient, as the stools have to be stored and retrieved from a different room due to space constraints.

每周主要的皮塔是我和妻子带着杂货回来的时候。为了避免使用塑料袋，我们购物时使用行李袋和背包，我们包到鳃。如果我们把它们放在柜台上，就没有空间来卸下这些东西--我们的柜台就那么小。所以我拉了两个凳子到柜台，把袋子放在上面，然后卸货。这很不方便，因为由于空间限制，凳子必须存放在另一个房间。

What we need is simply a disappearing surface on which to set the heavy bags down. I looked around to see what others with this need have come up with. The first I found are these pivot-out surfaces:

我们所需要的只是一个消失的表面，把沉重的袋子放在上面。我环顾四周，看看其他有这种需要的人想出了什么办法。我首先发现的是这些不规则的表面：

I'm not crazy about either, because as far as I can tell, the single leg in each design has to be folded in and out each time you use it. If I'm going to go to the trouble of redoing my cabinets to integrate this thing, I want the experience of using it to be minimal-interaction each time. Not to mention the single legs look like they'd be wobbly under load.

我对这两种都不感兴趣，因为据我所知，每次使用时，每种设计中的单腿都必须折叠起来。如果我打算不厌其烦地重做我的橱柜来整合这个东西，我希望每次使用它的体验都是最小的交互。更不用说单腿看起来像他们会动摇负荷。

This variant on that design has a much sturdier-looking support, which appears to be two casters spread apart:

这种设计的变体有一个看起来更坚固的支撑，它似乎是两个分散的脚轮：

However, the more I look at that, the more I realize the pivot point probably consists of some funky wandering mechanism. If it was a single point of rotation, there's no way you could just rotate the entire thing in and out of the base cabinets, unless there's some unsightly vertical gap when the thing is closed.

然而，我看得越多，我就越意识到枢轴点可能由一些时髦的游荡机制组成。如果它是一个旋转点，你就不可能把整个东西旋转进出地柜，除非当东西关闭时有一些难看的垂直间隙。

The next type of design I found is this simple roll-out table:

However, I'd never be able to get that length of table--our counters are too shallow, front-to-back, to store something that size. Realistically, ours would have to be shallower front-to-back, like these:

Those seem acceptable--but then I found an even more minimal design, which is just a flat surface on drawer slides:

The only problem with that one is, our counter surface isn't much wider than what's in the photo. In order for the surface to hold both of our bags, it would have to be as wide as what's in the photo--and we'd effectively be blocking ourselves from accessing the counter.

Finally, I think I've found the perfect design for us, which is a variant of the one above:

No, we wouldn't be using it as a pull-out wine-and-newspaper table. In fact I'm not even interested in the center unit. I'm thinking of the two lower, red-covered surfaces. Whereas this design intends them as seating, I think those would actually be the perfect height on which to place our fully-laden bags (I'll just throw some heavy-duty drawer slides in there). Since the bags are top-loading, we could lift things straight from the bags to the counter.

So, I'm thinking that's the best design for us.

Any thoughts? Do any of you have something similar to any of these in your kitchen, and if so, are you happy with them?