The starting point
The kitchen had a small daily-use problem: trash storage that didn’t work well with how the kitchen was actually used. Rather than replacing cabinets across the whole kitchen, the project was scoped to one targeted change — a dedicated trash-rollout cabinet built to fit the existing kitchen.
The constraints
The new cabinet had to live alongside existing cabinets, existing doors and drawer fronts, and the trim already in the room. There was no room to fudge: the cabinet box, face frame, and front all had to line up with what was already there, and the trim had to be adjusted so the finished result looked like it belonged.
What I built
An upper cabinet above the stove was removed, trim changes were made, and a cabinet was built to fit — sized for a trash rollout and fitted with soft-close hardware. The result was installed and fitted into the existing kitchen so it reads as part of the original cabinetry.
Details worth seeing
The cabinet front is aligned with the existing doors and drawer fronts — the reveals match, and the trim transitions cleanly into the surrounding cabinetry. The soft-close hardware means the rollout glides shut without slamming, which matters for something you open and close several times a day.
What the work was meant to do
The goal was simple: make the trash easy to reach and easy to use, without tearing up a kitchen that otherwise worked fine. One carefully planned change can be enough when the problem is specific and the fitting is done right.