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

I've always been fairly pleased with our kitchen. or at best I have managed to fool myself into believing which i was happy with our kitchen whilst simultaneously managing to avoid taking a look at it using the kind of critical eye anyone would use if finding it the very first time.

Sadly, having wandering around taking a look at fitted kitchens in Manchester I've had to come to the realisation that I happen to be fooling myself for a lot too much time, and that there isn't any longer any excuse.

I think my kitchen problems really started to escalate after i started not having enough space to put things. That was back in 1992, about Three 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've even caught myself wandering the supermarket aisles choosing food not by its taste, quality, price or make, but through the shape and size of the packaging, and whether or not this will squeeze into the area obtainable in the cupboard.

That isn't to claim that I have a small kitchen. It's actually quite big. And it is less though I do not have sufficient storage space. The quantity of space being occupied by cupboards is quite good. it is simply which i can't use most of it.

The 2 cupboard storage problems I have 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 issues I'd with storage, or at best face them. The very first issue is the corner unit.

You realize the main one - it's right in the corner from the room, where two units join. There's bags of space in the corner itself, and it is possible to reach into that space. I've done it once.

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I were able to get to the back corner of my kitchen cupboard by lying on the floor bending my head back so 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 into the old food blender I'd forgotten about, neatly cutting two fingers in a way that I couldn't type for several days. Harmful to an author. And so i sort of threw in the towel on that cupboard.

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

They're exactly one and three quarter tins high. Quite simply, you can't stack two standard tins on top of each other, so all things have to be stored on one level, leaving an enormous cavity that's un-used. By adding in a couple of extra shelves, or allowing for some flexibility within the height they'd be much more useful.

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

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

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