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Do you have an odd little nook in your home? I've been searching for a new place to live and was surprised to find that 3 out of the 5 that I've viewed so far had these very odd nooks in the entryway or hallway. After careful inspection I realized that most of them were entrances leading to other rooms or closets at one time and then closed in to be quite shallow with the door and hinges missing...but since the molding was still there, they looked a little "odd" and misplaced. What can you do with something like that smack in the middle of a hallway? Are you following me? It's hard to describe in words... this is an example of what I mean from the Sage parenting blog. Though I must admit, the nooks I saw were more shallow that the one shown above. I started to do some research online to see what others had done with their odd nooks. And funny thing is, Editor Leah Moss from Apartment Therapy just posted on this very topic yesterday! What are the chances? I love design blogs... I never have to look very far and viola! I find what I am looking for.
In her article, Leah gave four great tips on how to outfit an unused nook. She goes into greater depth here so I encourage you to click over and read her article in full but to summarize she suggests:
Now that I've read Leah's article and had time to do more research on nooks, I started to think of a few other ideas:
I'd like to hear some of your ideas now... what would YOU do with an odd little space like this? (images: sage, apartment therapy, house to home)
Posted by: Kate Ashford @ HerTwoCents| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM Oh yes, hats! Nice idea. I have an old hat collection passed to me from my mother - hats from the flapper days -- now I wish I HAD a nook! LOL Oh nooks are the best thing in the world! I want to have a home made up entirely of them :) Especially love the bookcase and the reading area ides :) The hat display idea is really cool. And tasteful, unlike my ideas ;) If the space were quite shallow, you could have your own personal grotto/shrine. Religious items, or religious kitsch if that's more your thing, or collections of personal items that you draw inspiration from: old postcards and documents, favorite childhood treasures, inherited keepsakes. I would probably do something super silly like put a very large vintage movie poster on the wall, with a sheer curtain over it to partially obscure the image to add some mystery. Something to surprise visitors who couldn't resist looking behind the curtain! We have a very strange nook in our condo. It is just over a foot wide, and two feet deep. It is located in our family room. It is just so weird - this is a brand new condo and the builders definitely cut a few corners. We decided to hang brackets in the back and have wood cut to turn it into a floor to ceiling book shelf. At the very bottom, we keep a bin of our current magazines. The only other thing we brainstormed for it was storage (brooms?) as it was narrow and wide. But who wants to see a broom - that needed a closed door. And so a bookshelf was created! I have an odd little nook in my casa, just off of the kitchen. It is flanked by two closed cabinets with framed glass doors and at the back had a counter with a butcher block and two giant wooden bin drawers that took a lot of muscle to move about. I think they were used for garbage at one point - the house was built in the early 1900's. Anyway, I am planning on wall papering in the nook, but I did: We had one at our last place and the previous tenants had added hooks to the wall to make it a recessed coat rack. We removed the hooks and mounted a closet hang-ups bar inside the nook to hang our coats. My husband cut some boards to create a deep, custom shelf at the very top of the opening (it was old and crooked, but otherwise a regular shelf and a few brackets would have been fine). The shelf was quite deep, so as to extend beyond the tips of our hangers. We then installed an Ikea curtain track system to the underside of the shelf and had curtains made to fit. It was really nice to have a curtained closet in the hall - it was somehow 'warmer' than a regular wardrobe would have been. It also provided a LOT more storage than 4 hooks! Fishtank? other 'contained' sort of pet area? I think this is a great idea. I am going to try to make a little room.Thanks for the great ideas.http://www.AboutOne.com Hang a collection of mirrors or a really large mirror, maybe the size of a window. I love the idea of adding shelves and creating a place to display your precious collectible items (anything that's near and dear to your heart), adding lights will enhance the small space and it could be turned into a focal point for the room when lit. Hi Holly, |
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I was going to suggest a shallow bookcase. I'm always in need of more room for books, and odd little nooks are perfect for that purpose. You could probably put one together yourself with some inexpensive lumber so it'd fit the space exactly. You could also use it to display a really cool collection, with tiny little shelves or hooks for things. (Hats? Mirrors? Old keys?) Have fun!