Grand Foresta Malaysia: 15 Appliance Garage Ideas to Elevate Your Wholesale Cabinet Orders

At Grand Foresta, Malaysia’s trusted wholesale cabinet factory, we know that thoughtful storage solutions turn standard cabinets into high-value products for your customers. That’s why we’re excited to share 15 practical appliance garage ideas.

Curious about how these look in a kitchen? Read on for appliance garage ideas that'll instantly make you prioritize this as your next project.

1. Add a Pull-Out Drawer

An appliance garage adds plenty of convenience to your kitchen, but you can take it a step further by inserting a drawer that glides out. This makes accessing this area even easier and it takes less effort to finagle heavy appliance back into their home. A sliding drawer is also easier to clean than reaching back and searching around in the dark for crumbs and dust that might be hiding.

2. Try a Double Door Approach

Forget a two-door car garage, and instead spend time opening up your two-door appliance garage. This offers ample room for your air fryer, kettle, and rice cooker and will feel far less cramped than a one-door version.

You can also tap a specific set of cabinets as the designated appliance garage by differentiating it with a set of unique handles or a different style of hardware from the rest.

3. Install an Door That Goes Out and Up

Appliance garages can be places of innovation. Rather than the standard hinged cabinet, try a hydraulic cabinet door that pops out and up. It stays out of the way as you collect the day's necessary cooking tools and closes more effortlessly. Sliding, tambour, and silent-close doors are three other advanced options to scope out that are slicker than your run-of-the-mill cabinet.

4. Put It Somewhere with Unused Space

Even if there isn't space right next to your oven or beneath the microwave, there are other places you can look to for bringing in an appliance garage. This lovely white one is sitting next to a desk area. If there is an empty cabinet or space that's just not being used in your kitchen, make the most of it and convert it into an appliance garage.

5. Try Two Variations of Doors

Can't decide between a hydraulic push-up door or something that slides? Why not both? Because kitchen storage is always at a premium, add multiple types of doors to your layout.

Slide doors might be useful for the appliances that hibernate more often, whereas an easy pop-up door is a deal for must-haves that are used frequently—like an espresso maker or blender.

6. Have an Open Appliance Garage

An open appliance garage without a door is a great way to keep them contained but doesn't shut them off from the rest of the kitchen. It's an easy solution and doesn't require renovation if you already have an open area available.

7. Dress It Up with Gold Hardware

Knobs and pull handles are pretty, but for something more visually captivating, try latches or other various hardware in a gold or metallic finish. This adds a glint and glimmer to your cooking space and gives a touch more pizazz to a super functional kitchen feature.

8. Go for Two Appliance Garages

If the space is available and you're constantly rotating through your appliances, a double-whammy appliance garage may be just the thing you need. A separation between two garages means there is room to categorize by purpose, meal type, or the frequency it's needed.

9. Blend a Pantry and Appliance Garage

Looking for a multipurpose storage solution? Create a larger appliance garage by blending this concept with a pantry.

This style of cabinet can store your favorite appliances as well as dried good, spices, and other kitchen essentials. It's a great way to make the most of a kitchen that doesn't have room for both types of storage units.

10. Try Glass Panel Doors

The beauty of an appliance garage is that it hides cords, hulking appliances, and other eyesores. But sometimes this defeats the purpose of knowing just what you have to help you cook and bake. For the best of both worlds, opt for doors that have glass windows so you can keep track of where that immersion blender is hiding.

11. Contrast Cabinet Colors

To make your appliance garage and other storage areas stand out, select a contrasting color or material. A dark wood against teal cabinets gives off a little mid-century modern flair. Or you could opt for a two-tone situation with neutrals.

This break in continuity is a great way to remember where things are all around a kitchen, gives items like appliances a permanent home, and just generally looks wildly stylish.

12. Install a Corner Appliance Garage

Rather than storing your mixer in an empty corner or shoving the toaster there after making breakfast, make it an official home for your appliances. While corners often serve as design conundrums, with a few walls, this awkwardly shaped area can become much more functional. A pull-down, sliding, or tambour door works a treat for corner appliance garages, too.

13. Optimize for Convenience

The quicker and easier it is to get to it means you're more likely to use it, too, and appliances won't be left on the countertop defeating the purpose (it happens!).

14. Craft a Coffee Station

This is a neat way to keep accessories, grounds, and mugs tody, but you can hide it away in seconds without creating more of a mess.

15. Experiment with Slide-Out Cabinet Doors

Rater than simply sliding back and forth along a vertical plane, opt for cabinet doors that can slide back and maneuver out when needed. With multifunctional doors, you can leave your coffee station or colorful mixer on display. When you swap things around, you can easily hide the not-so-chic essentials like a food processor.

Grande Foresta turns these ideas into reality - right here in our Malaysia factory. Ready to add this value to your next order?