Oftentimes projects like these can feel overwhelming because there’s too much choice – or at least the illusion of choice. Meaning, to make it easiest on yourself, use what you already have in your space that you know will not change to play off of when planning a new project. THE PLAN How I Always Start My (And Recommend You Start Your) Project Planning Notebook / paper for sketching, taking measurements and making shopping list (And more specifically, bottles of wine.) Plus an awkward trapezangle (half trapezoid / half rectangle) shaped hole above the upper cabinets.Ī built-in wine rack above one side of upper cabinets to store wine bottles. (If you haven’t already seen our custom built-in bar project and how we turned a shallow, seemingly useless ten-foot space into 20 square feet of storage, you can find it here.) This is kind of a carryover from our “we have too many things cluttering up our kitchen counters” problem we had for a while (as you can see in the photos above), which led us to building a custom bar cabinet in the dining room for our liquor and bar equipment, and is the storage equivalent for our bottles of wine. Because of it’s small size, this is also another great (potentially free/very cheap) project to use up scrap woods lying around from previous projects! We raised them all the way up the wall as high as we could on one side (and moved the other wall’s cabinets up to match), however since our kitchen ceiling goes from 8 foot at the wall to 9 foot in the room because of an angled roofline, we had one section of cabinetry on the short side of the kitchen that had about a little more than a foot of empty space to work with. For us, that awkward – potentially functional – wasted space is an area on top of our kitchen cabinets, left over from when we raised our cabinet uppers years back. This is a great project to make use of any awkward niche in the house – bonus points if it’s in a place that makes sense like the kitchen, dining room, or maybe utilizing a nearby space under a staircase.
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