kick-plate kitchen storage

My wife and I have been taking our time renovating our kitchen. We enjoy finding just the right solutions for our favorite spot in the apartment. Originally, I built a cabinet over the oven for our baking sheets, trays and racks, but their shape and size make storage awkward. When it was time to install our base cabinets, we decided to use the kick-plate spaces under the cabinets for wide, shallow drawers. 

The drawers are really great. We used simple, bottom mount drawer slides that suspend the drawers just above the floor and allow for easy lift out when we need to remove the drawers. The handles are just simple black finger pulls that disappear when the drawers are closed. (More info here.)