My daughter took the door off of hers, and put a large decorative container or basket on each shelf. Then she could just lift the container off the higher shelves and bring it down to get out the items. Wouldn't work for vases, but I believe she stored smaller snack items in there. Sorry I don't have a picture, but it looked very nice and worked well.

I just recently read a post on here about retrofitting corner cabinets with lazy susans.
I've just ordered some d shaped trays for mine and will be using the post as a tutorial.
We briefly thought about making them ourselves, but after factoring time and all the labor to make them look professional, we chose to purchase them for about $40 a tray.

Here is a link that might be useful: Retrofit Susan

Deardre,
I am SO pleased that my post was useful to you. I have wondered if posting it was just an ego-trip, or might be useful to others. I hope you will let us know how your project turns out.

Raehelen,
The link deardre posted is to my retrofit. FYI: my upper cabs are 15'' deep, and the door angles so that 24'' D-shaped shelves worked for me.

You will need to measure carefully to decide what is your best fit. Also, I urge you to consider the vertical space between shelves. So often a LOT of space is wasted when an additional shelf would be much more efficient. And with the susans, you don't need to be able to reach INTO the space--you just pluck items from the front!!

You might have to store seldom used stuff on the top two shelves and use a stool to access them, but that is found space, and I can reach every inch of the bottom two shelves from the floor. I sure could not do that pre-susans.

If I can be of any use to you, let me know.

Sandra

This post was edited by Bellsmom on Tue, Jan 15, 13 at 22:17

I love that retrofit - I hope to do that someday - but for now, I used Copco turntables in the top. I agree on the shelves - GC wanted to use only 3 shelves and I used all 4.
I also hid some extra thermos mugs in the corners...
Photobucket made some changes - hope this works!

Thanks Ladies,

I agree a proper-sized lazy susan is the best way to go, but am looking for temporary solutions in the meantime.

Am thinking I will try clear shoeboxes for now to try and avoid the endless searching in far corners for bags of spices...

Part of the solution may be to de-junk/ I mean de-clutter those shelves first! (a2gemini you have extremely neat cupboards!)

If you have access to an Ikea near you, they offer clear plastic bins, about the same size as shoeboxes. I use these to store stuff in both my corner cabinet, and on the highest shelves of other wall cabinets. Makes it much easier to keep track of things when you can see them, yet easy to pull the container down when needed.

Just use those Glad containers in the meanwhile. Why pay a fortune for temporary?

I am going to have a closet with corner shelves. Remind me never, ever to make a square room again. Anyway, I think it's Bee who has the fabulous Susans in the corner of her corner shelves. I want to do that and was thinking of D Susans.

I'm going to check out the links. Thanks for great ideas!