A place for everything and everything in its place: This is the mantra of the organized, tidy person. If your place is small but untidy, you want cabinets to stow your clutter in, but you can’t afford the floor space. There’s how you can have your cake and eat it too in the neatness area. The way to clear precious floor space without blocking this same floor space with bulky cabinets is with recessed or built-in cabinets. These can be the shelf storage cabinet, bath storage cabinets, or the bathroom wall cabinet, Built-in cabinets can also add beauty and a look of elegance to your rooms.
Let’s look at the bathroom. This is the most obvious spot, with its expected built-in medicine chest and toilet paper holder. But other things can be recessed, including bath storage cabinets, shelves for towels, towel bars themselves, and tissue box holders. As an additional benefit, when these bathroom fixtures are recessed, they aren’t targets for elbows and knees in the dark.
There are a lot of opportunities for built-in storage cabinets in the living room. Think of how elegantly your books can be displayed in recessed bookcases. These bookcases can be wide or narrow. They can be high or short. They can be |recessed|built} into a corner. If they have decorative molding, this molding can be designed to blend with the architectural style of your home or your interior decorating motif. They can even be glassed in to keep the dust off your precious library collection. But the storage shelves in the living room can be designed to hold other media. Media storage shelves can be designed to hold DVDs, CDs, and computer games.
A woman with an extensive collection of jewelry would eagerly welcome a built-in jewelry cabinet. Many styles of these cabinets are available. Some are rectangular. Some have an arched top. Additional utility and esthetic value are added by a mirror on the door.
There are many types of recessed cabinets for the kitchen. Think of the pantry, the home fire station, the built-in ironing board, and the pet food holder. Do you have a small collection spices? Install a spice rack. Do you love to cook? The full-sized spice cabinet may be just what you need. Your kitchen will be the best organized in your neighborhood.
Wall niches are a lovely way to beautify a room, whether it’s the bedroom, living room, entry way, or hallway. These niches are less functional than just beautiful. Wall niches go far back into history as a means of decorating a wall with three-dimensional art objects such as vases, figurines, plants, and statues. A niche is a good solution for these displays because they are flush with the wall, making it difficult for the careless person to knock the art object to the floor.
With so many choices for built-in storage, there is no excuse for not having a place for everything. Look at your walls. Where can you put a well-placed cabinet to hold your treasures?
