My microwave is also on its own cart. My husband and I aren't coffee drinkers, but I will drink instant mochas, cocoa, and tea, so I use the cart as my hot drink "station". Cups, spoons, trivet, cloth napkins are all right by the microwave. Being a quilter, I have made a few quilted cloth bowls to hold hot things when they come out of the microwave, I think they're called microwave cozies. They're a bowl shaped potholder that you place your glass bowl into before you nuke something. Makes it less dangerous to remove steaming hot things. This cart was made out of an old kitchen cabinet that I installed a Formica top to and added casters, although I rarely move it.. The inside holds serving bowls, the attachments to my KitchenAid, and jars and other containers for my herbal concoctions.

Denise in NH