Making my life easier with smart cabinet accessories

Cabinet accessories that help make my day easier are a huge score.

If you have never experienced a cabinet that has pull-out trays, sliding shelves, or touch to open features, you are in need of some cabinet therapy.

Cabinets are more than boxes with beautifully detailed faces with fixed shelves. They have grown up, with a complex inner system where shelves move, light up, and no longer have the ‘back zone’ where plastic containers go to retire for eternity.

I have the good fortune to know the designer of Wellborn Cabinet‘s Kitchen & Bath Industry Show vignettes. Karen Salyer is a design force at the annual event, nailing and predicting trends with her design eye. She incorporated other tech ideas into a few vignettes where counters raised and shelves lowered on to the counter. While those tech achievements aren’t exactly offered to us yet, it’s fun to see where a cabinet designer’s brain is headed, so we have an idea of what we might be able to choose in a few years. I like having insider info when it comes to design and cabinet accessories.

For now, it’s kind of an essential to have lighting inside a cabinet. No matter how the lighting shakes out for the rest of a room, you’ll always be able to see what’s inside on the shelves. But better than that, check out the pull-out options, the touch to open, touch to light, and touch to close.

You may never lose a plastic lid again.