When I embarked on a kitchen remodel years ago, one of my main obsessions was to hide the microwave (Jerome, remember?).
A Dumbo, Brooklyn, loft designed by Marco Pasanella and Rebecca Robertson features a microwave tucked inside the kitchen island; see the whole project at A Whimsical Family Loft in Brooklyn.
Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Alison Davin of design firm Jute (a member of the Remodelista Architect & Designer Directory) tucked a microwave in a kitchen cabinet; see the whole project at Rehab Diary: A Small-Kitchen Makeover with Maximum Storage.
Photograph by Drew Kelly.
In Sheila Narusawa’s Cape Cod kitchen, the microwave and other small appliances are tucked away on pullout shelves fitted with hidden outlets.
A microwave and a toaster oven tucked under a countertop ingeniously solves two problems from Gepetto.
Barbara Bestor tucked a microwave in a side cabinet in A New England Kitchen by Way of LA.
In the back parlor turned kitchen of a 19th-century Brooklyn townhouse, architect Shauna McManus hid the microwave into the coffee counter.
Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Ann DeSaussure Davidson and Scott Davidson tucked a compact microwave under the counter in their Brooklyn galley kitchen; the monochrome white helps it to blend in with the cabinetry. For more, read our book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home.
Photograph by Andres Gonzalez from Kitchen of the Week: A New-Build Kitchen in Mill Valley, CA, the Six-Month Check-Up.
A freestanding microwave powered by a built-in outlet in a kitchen pantry designed by Ken Linsteadt in Mill Valley, California.
A built-in Viking Microwave is a sleek, discreet (and expensive) option.
Photograph by Justine Hand from Kitchen of the Week: A Compact, Nautical Entertaining Kitchen on Cape Cod.
A microwave concealed in the kitchen island with a retractable door at the Cape Cod beach house designed by Tei Carpenter and Victoria Birch.
Photograph courtesy of Dwell.
Ikea cabinets with swing-up doors for countertop appliances.