broom closet built as a too small cabinet - what would you do?
J H
4 years ago
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Looking for examples of small utility cabinets for brooms, etc
Comments (16)I think fishies has to be wider than that because it's on the other side of her fridge - I was looking at that too! Re the outlet. Talked hubby into to doing that because I HAD to have it and in reality I don't use it hardly ever. I found out that if I had my phone in there charging then I couldn't hear it! That was my attempt to keep something off the counter. I do keep my camera, the USB cords, stamps, etc. in there that I don't want wet or lost or broken. My kiddos aren't tall enough to reach it...yet. My cabinet was custom. Our kitchen is small and not well laid out. We took out a closet and had that pantry/broom closet built to open the space up a bit and add more useful food storage. I also have 2 pullouts on the pantry side that house the trash and dog food....See MoreCan you help me 'design' a broom closet?
Comments (15)I hope this tape outline will make it eaiser to "see" what I'm trying to do. I so appreciate all the ideas and am considering all of them. ColorCrazy - the tables' manufacture (in the USA!) said the leaves must be stored flat. That was no problem in the old house. Here's it's been a major issue. CamLan - I'm making my first visit to an Ikea (in Minneapolis) this Saturday. It's a five-hour drive but I'm looking forward to it. Here's the south wall taped off to show the closet shelf placements and window seat area. The table is pulled out as though it's placed in front of the window seat. I have two small chairs to place at the table, too. The bookcase, of course, will go away; I've already begun emptying it....See MoreRollout shelves in inset cabinets/organizing broom closet?
Comments (3)Thanks! No pics yet, unfortunately (cabinets go in next week---this decision arose b/c cabinetmaker wants to do the center panel at the shop since it's big; I'd been hoping to map out this particular cabinet once it was in place and we could see exactly how the vacuum, in particular, fits in). Maybe a better way to describe it is to imagine a giant box--this is the 36" space. Then we're going to drop a divider panel down the center to make, roughly, two 18" spaces. (Our cabinets don't have center stiles, which is an important detail I forgot---the two doors just meet each other directly.) So the divider panel is organizational, rather than structural---we just need it to separate the space and attach shelves to. I don't think we could do a full pullout pantry, but I was thinking along the lines of the pantries with drawers inside that pull out individually---I think I've seen some folks around here that have these? We're good on the broom side since we loved our old broom closet and are basically just replicating its dimensions, but I've never had a pantry/storage cabinet before so I'm having trouble getting my head around it organizationally. Our old kitchen just had a built-in buffet that had a tendency to get crammed full of unrelated stuff, so that's what I'm hoping to avoid with whatever shelf/drawer configuration we come up with....if that makes sense?...See MoreWhat would you consider too small for a bedroom
Comments (25)When I was a kid, I had a 'bedroom' that was actually the closet off another bedroom. Big enough for a twin bed plus a small dresser. Probably not technically legal, but in a house with four kids and three bedrooms, you stick people where they'll fit. :). I loved it honestly. Our current master (and only) bedroom is ten by ten. We have a queen bed plus one dresser in the room. 'Bedside tables' are small wall mounted shelves, just enough space for glasses and a phone. Or a book. The bed is a storage bed, the Cynthia Bed from Pottery Barn. It's a life saver. We have room for all clothes plus other random stuff too, like our printer lives in one of the drawers. Here is a link that might be useful: Storage bed....See MoreJo
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