I just realized I never posted about the trash pullout conversion. You can see in the corner of this photo that I had a big freestanding trashcan in the kitchen, which didn’t really have a good spot to be. And in this post I talked about how I had empty cabinets- one of which was the entire drawer stack to the left of the sink. See where this is headed? At my reveal party, one of my friends commented that I should do a pullout for trash instead of the drawer stack. And he was TOTALLY right – I couldn’t quite believe I hadn’t figured that out already. So I went back to IKEA (trip 5 for the kitchen) and bought a door for the pullouts. I had to drill some extra holes in it, but I basically took the drawer hardware for the bottom drawer and connected it to the door – so now I have a door that pulls out like a drawer. Awesomely, there’s another company that makes trash pullouts this size, so I could order “replacement” bins from them, which fit neatly into my space. The front can is trash, the back one is recycling, and now I don’t have a big trashcan just hanging out in the corner of my kitchen – it’s been relegated to the basement as my construction trashcan.