Your site supervisor must be loving you. It’s not a great design for a corner but corner cabinets are rarely perfect. I’m assuming that you signed off on the plans along the way. I’d leave it. Opening it the other way will be more problematic for access. You have full access to the interior as is. You can purchase after market fixtures that will help improve functionality.

You can’t turn it upside down without having the handle strip at the bottom.

Haha, yes he must be loving me. I have a long list. 😂Thank you @bigreader for your advice as always!

That has to be changed. You can’t squeeze in there to get things out. What is the side panel for?

Hi Kate, I thought so. It is annoying. In long term, the door will get scratches. The side panel is for refrigerator.

So even if the panel wasn’t there the fridge would be.

3 options have the doors replaced to swing the other way or a pull out unit fitted or cut back lower section of panel. Even with fridge there will be a greater swing space as fridge won’t be hard up against it.

Ok what may work is a lateral opening hinge or a lift up door hinge

Thank you @bigreader @Kate for the advice.

It will be a very tight corner especially if the fridge projects out past the tall panel, I would look to either replace the hinged panel with a new one and have the door hinged on the left to give you wider access. If you can't have a new door panel fill the holes left by the hinges, they are internal and should easily fill as they are a different finish to the external. This is where a good designer is worthwhile to avoid the problems you overlooked, the kitchen company you chose should have shown/explained these points of possible concern. What else is wrong with this kitchen?

Very good point. To be honest, it is me to change the door open direction. But as a non-professional, I didn’t foresee it would cause a problem from the drawing. They didn’t point it out either. I agreed that an experienced designer is very important.

Your kitchen company should step up and change the hinges over as it's simple for them to do this, good luck

I was going to make this comment on your other thread but here is just as good. You have a new build (given you have a site supervisor) and probably won’t have direct access to any of the trades used. A lot of our advice is more directed to where you do have access to the trades. Given you don’t have access to the trades you won’t be able to request changes to plans and fittings you’ve already signed off on. Some builders may make changes for a variation cost but you are really past this stage. The cost to do any changes with the builder now will be high and they may not want to do it at all. My best advice is move in, enjoy the property and see what really bothers you after you’ve been there a while. Any changes you can organise directly with trades in the future will be cheaper than doing them through your current builder. My second best bit of advice would be to stop focusing on cosmetic things and make sure you have a proper independent handover inspection done of the construction work.

This is a perfect example of a dead corner that if I had been designing this kitchen I would have avoided at all cost... for just this reason. A pain to build, pain to use and pain to try and cope with day to day. The best you can do is leave it as it is and only store in there things your rarely use eg esky, picnic stuff and/or large platters etc that you will not needed very often. You can get another shelf for increasing the storage of the space and making it less a stack on stack situation! Dead corners in any storage situation are a pest: walk in robes, linen, pantry... every where and they can so easily be avoided.. So ends my rant... sorry!! Margot

Great rant Margot but any recommendation to improve access. The opening is currently too small for most adults to access the space so a change to the door is essential

Hi Margot, thank you for your comment and suggestion. As you said, I will store things rarely use in this corner cabinet if no better solution.

Another solution would be to cut the right door into 2 to add a narrow section to hinge the door so it can swing around the side panel. When closed it will look like a fill panel.

This should be the cheapest option as the existing henges stay. The cabinet maker will need to cut and edge the door panels and attach the additional hinges to make the door a 3-fold door. If they are preformed fìdoors then may need to order new panels but it will be worth the cost

Hi Kate, thank you so much for the idea! I will ask if the cabinet maker could make the changes.

Or having the doors swing the other way

Either swing door the other way or give it further to open out away from the cupboard. ATM the hinge opens 45* it could go further like 90* except the fr will be next to it I realize. Talk to the cabinet maker and see what he can suggest. Good luck. Margot