My sister-in-law has recently been happening about seeing some kitchens in Manchester. I figured she had been feeling hungry, but it works out she was talking about visiting newer and more effective fitted kitchens displayed at various local showrooms. I figured that to become helpful I'd tag along, not expecting very much. Boy, was I wrong.

I've been fairly pleased with my kitchen. or at best I have managed to fool myself into believing that I was happy with our kitchen whilst simultaneously managing to prevent looking at it with the sort of critical eye anyone would use if finding it for the first time.

Sadly, having wandering around taking a look at fitted kitchens in Manchester I have had arrive at the realisation which i have been fooling myself for far too long, which there isn't any longer any excuse.

I believe our kitchen problems really began to escalate after i started running out of space to place things. That was in 1992, about 3 days once i moved in. Ever since then I've simply be creative in either things i buy, or where I stick things.

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I have even caught myself wandering the supermarket aisles choosing food not by its taste, quality, price or make, but through the shape and size from the packaging, and whether it will squeeze into the area obtainable in the cupboard.

That's not to claim that I've got a small kitchen. That it is quite big. And it's less though I don't have sufficient storage space. The amount of space being occupied by cupboards is very good. it is simply which i can't use most from it.

The 2 cupboard storage problems I've are almost certainly universally shared by those who have not already benefitted from modern fitted kitchens. Manchester was a revelation in my experience, and made me realise the problems I had with storage, or at best face them. The very first issue is the corner unit.

You know the one - it's in the actual corner from the room, where two units join. There's bags of space within the corner itself, and it is easy to reach into that space. I did it once.

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I managed to get to the back corner of our kitchen cupboard by lying on the floor bending my return as far as it would go without my neck snapping, reached in with one arm, blindly paddling around in the darkness until I were able to stick my fingers in to the old food blender I'd ignored, neatly cutting two fingers in such a way which i couldn't type for a few days. Not good for a writer. So I kind of gave up on that cupboard.

Another storage problem I came to be aware of while looking round at all of the fitted kitchens in Manchester with my sister-in-law could be that the shelves in the cupboards were exactly the wrong height. Who designed these shelves?

They're exactly one and three quarter's tins high. Quite simply, you can't stack two standard tins along with one another, so everything has to become stored on a single level, leaving a massive cavity that's un-used. With the addition of in a handful of extra shelves, or permitting some flexibility in the height they'd considerably more useful.

But as I wandered around looking at all of the fitted kitchens Manchester seemed to be offering me it became perfectly clear that i'm not alone - which kitchen designers have been aware of exactly the same problems plaguing average folks mortals.

The opportunities for innovative storage are enormous. No more slicing fingers off. Forget about wasted shelf space. From tall, sliding units that fit near the fridge to carousel corner units, double depth drawers and even chilled drawers to keep vegetables in so the fridge isn't full are only a few of the novel ways that kitchen storage has been handled.

Thinking that some of this sounds awfully familiar to you, then pop out yourself sometimes and have a look at a few of the modern fitted kitchens Manchester has available, or wherever you happen to be, and discover how kitchens needs to be, rather than how they were in 1992.