At last, after several months of nothing, a 60cm unit came up for sale. Brand new, still in packaging. I bought it and we agreed that it would be used for our new bin unit (another FB marketplace bargain, it's been sitting in the summerhouse for months!).
We had a 400 wide pullout, which had two tall bins in. We'd put a small bin nestling in the top of one of them, for food waste. The bin system and its cabinet came with our slightly preloved kitchen purchase. They've worked well, much better than we expected. We weren't sure about having them and probably wouldn't have gone out of our way to do so. if they hadn't already bin there. Although they were expensive, they were a bit te,peramental. In the end, I decided to look for something even better, that would also manage the food waste more neatly
The purchased unit had several drawers in. all on Blum runners. We've removed those and stored them , they will be useful in a later phase. DH installed the new bin pullout, and we were quite surprised at how much better they are than the previous one.
We don't have a front for the unit. My plan was that DH, who can do anything, would combine two drawer fronts together so as not to spoil the line of the units. I naively thought it would just be a case of putting a couple of plates on the drawer fronts to make them into one solid front. It turns out that isn't the case, the fixing for the bin pullout was not in a great place for this. Wwe considered just leaving the front off for now. and actually I didn't mind that at all.
DH pondered over the challenge, and decided he wanted to do a trial run of making a false front. I think me reminding him that I was looking at false fronts wherever I had a cupboard door was a factor, We had some white drawer fronts from a bargain purchase of several drawers. At the time, they were the right width (slightly too tall) for one of our cabinets, soo DH took the best drawer fronts and reduced the height. The remaining drawers were binned, but we decided to keep the fronts in case we needed something termporary in future,
Two of those drawer fronts were reduced in width (which cut off the damage) and DH used them to create a new slid front. He also fashioned some metal brackets to attach them to the bin unit pullout, and it worked really well! We'll replace them as and when I manage to get the correct fronts, but that may be some time.
