Nooks and Crannies: Finding Spots Around Your Home for Convenient Cabinetry and Shelving

Are you considering doing some remodeling in your house to include extra cabinetry or shelving? 

 

You may want to look around your home in various nooks and crannies where you can find some excellent spots to place shelving and cabinetry. In fact, you might find some places that are a bit unexpected and perhaps not all that common.

Whatever that spot might be, we can build it for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry LLC. You just need to inspect your home and find an area that’s free of any obstacles.

Behind Doors

Placing shelving units behind doors is becoming a popular option as extra space to store things. The most frequent location is in the bathroom where bathroom items can frequently become a burden for storage. Closet doors that open in bathrooms, hallways, or bedrooms can be adorned with a small shelving unit that can sturdily hold more items than you think. With proper measurements, we can customize a shelving unit there in a way that stays hidden. However, the shelving may look so attractive, you’ll want to leave the door open when you have guests.

Corners in Various Rooms

Do you have a specific corner in a room that looks overly plain and needs something there? A corner shelving unit or cabinet may be just what you need for some extra storage space. These can immediately make a corner look more attractive and help a room become balanced in its interior design. With proper measurements, they also provide more of a challenge that we can easily meet. We welcome design challenges to show our expertise and in giving you exactly what you want.

Shelving Under Beds

Perhaps you didn’t stop and realize that one of those nooks and crannies could be right under your own bed. It’s not overly common that people ask for a storage cabinet under their bed, but it’s not that uncommon either. It’s a perfect idea for a bedroom bed and can look very attractive if you don’t want boxes or random junk visible under there. We can design the floor-level cabinetry in a way that gives you more storage space than you think. This includes room for clothing or random items you need to keep from getting knocked around.

Cabinetry or Shelving Under Stairways

This location for shelving or cabinetry isn’t all that obscure. Many people are finding the area under stairs to be a perfect hideaway spot where you can store items so they aren’t out in the open. It’s also essential if every other nook and cranny around your home already has shelves or cabinets. In many homes, building cabinetry and shelving under a stairway can almost create a separate room on its own.

Contact us so we can discuss more ideas on imaginative locations around your home where we can show our cabinetry and shelving expertise. We’ll go beyond that if need be to create fireplace mantles, kitchen islands, and bathroom vanities as just a few.

Nooks and Crannies: Finding Spots Around Your Home for Convenient Cabinetry and Shelving

Creating a Wall Niche: Rooms You Can Use Them in and Things You Can Store

A niche placed into a wall is one of the greatest compromises in helping fill blank wall space while also providing a unique way to store things.

It’s basically a hybrid of a cabinet and shelf that’s installed directly into a wall so you don’t have to worry about obstructions. Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, our wall niches are popular, though customers sometimes can’t decide right away where the niche should be placed in their homes.

Take a look at some suggestions on where wall niches usually work the best. And you’ll be amazed at how much space they provide to store things you wouldn’t expect.

Which Rooms Work the Best for Wall Niches?

It really doesn’t matter where you place a wall niche, though common places we build them are in bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. A bedroom is an excellent place because you can store items you want to see regularly without worrying about them being knocked over on a nearby nightstand or dresser. With the ability to place multiple shelving within a niche, you can also have several layers of items on display. Plus, the niches can be made deep enough so they won’t be along a narrow edge.

Along with bedrooms, kitchens are an excellent place to have a wall niche. You can store everything from a small, flat HDTV to kitchen items there without needing to store things in a cupboard. In a kitchen, it can also help fill in for excessive blank wall space that’s been an eyesore for much too long. With easy installation, it’s a perfect location for a niche.

Then again, bathrooms are also an exceptional place to use niches. With so many bathroom items frequently strewn on counter spaces, having a bathroom niche can mean an easy reach for an item without needing to open a single door. It’s what you store on each niche, though, that can say a lot about you when you have guests around.

What Items Should You Store in a Niche?

As you can see above, it doesn’t matter what items you store in a wall niche, just as long as you’re aware that they’ll be seen by guests. That means any bathroom items you store there should be ones that aren’t overly personal, unless you’re open to honesty. As with shelving, however, you can store books in a niche or general nicknacks that you want in a secure place.

Niches can also be installed up higher on a wall so you can be sure kids won’t be able to reach up there and grab something valuable. But they overall pull double duty as a way to display things you’re proud of while also being an alternative storage device.

Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can design and build a wall niche that fits your style. With our careful attention to detail, you’ll have a permanent wall niche you’ll love using for decades and made of quality materials.

Creating a Wall Niche: Rooms You Can Use Them in and Things You Can Store