Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

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Lilyplonk

No 'store cupboard' or 'pantry' as such in this flat unfortunately - just a 'spare bedroom' with lots of lidded boxes with food stashes. There is some kind of order, or system, about them which only I understand ............. - one box is 'Christmassy Treats' which are scavenged throughout the year with an eye kept on use-by/sell-by dates; another is 'my presents box' and yet another is my 'Baking Box' which contains spare supplies of ingredients that are only used for baking with. If I was daft enough to label the contents, it would be 'open-house' on them where my OH was concerned. As long as he's uncertain as 'what's what' he'll keep his sneaky mitts off them .

My kitchen is tiny and I've already had two extra wall cupboards installed at my own expense (flat is owned by a Housing Association). I've got space for one more but that will have to wait until I get rid of my over-large fridge/freezer and replace it with one that will fit below the new wall cupboard :rotfl:!

My main chest freezer (full to bursting) lives in the entrance porch as there's just no room for it in the tiny kitchen :eek:!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

where we live now for ( 19 years) has a very narrow small kitchen, so storing stuff is an art, BUT we have bought a smallholding, which we are slowly doing up, and one of the rooms downstairs I would like to be a store room, with the chest freezer in there, and garage style racking, to store stuff on.. trays of cat food, cat litter, laundry stuff, loo rolls etc on one, and then tinned and dried stuff on the others, also one for candles, lightbulbs etc.. basically it will be like a little micro shop in there.. I am hoping that by organising our storeroom like that, it will save us load of money, by being totally organised, and knowing exactly what we got at a glance, rather than things hiding in corners of cupboards and hidden by other stuff...lol..

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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

where we live now for ( 19 years) has a very narrow small kitchen, so storing stuff is an art, BUT we have bought a smallholding, which we are slowly doing up, and one of the rooms downstairs I would like to be a store room, with the chest freezer in there, and garage style racking, to store stuff on.. trays of cat food, cat litter, laundry stuff, loo rolls etc on one, and then tinned and dried stuff on the others, also one for candles, lightbulbs etc.. basically it will be like a little micro shop in there.. I am hoping that by organising our storeroom like that, it will save us load of money, by being totally organised, and knowing exactly what we got at a glance, rather than things hiding in corners of cupboards and hidden by other stuff...lol..

I would love to keep a storeroom. I was thinking of buying a wardrobe or dresser and using that as a store cupboard as our kitchen has limited space.

GreyQueen

I've often thought that a store-room is the way to go.

Not for me personally, as I have a tiny 4-room flat with each room just about serving its designated purpose, and storage placed wherever it can go, subject to the positioning not causing the stored item to suffer.

Love the idea of the micro-shop which you can re-stock when bargains are about and shop-from when necessary.

I've often thought that, for larger households with perhaps a spare bedroom, wouldn't it be more sensible to have a dedicated Wardrobe Room with drawers and hanging space assigned to each family member?

That way, you could have a central place to deliver clean clothes to (and perhaps collect dirty ones from, if you keep the linen bin/s in there) rather than traipsing from bedroom to bedroom, depositing piles of clothes on beds, exhorting the lazy so-and-sos to put them away etc.

This would free up space in other bedrooms, a lot of bedroom storage seems to be dedicated to holding clothes and shoes anyway.

Anyone reading doing this already IRL?

Lilyplonk

Heavens Above, GreyQueen - you and I are women 'of one mind' :T.

A 'Family Dressing Room' would be a fabulous idea - just love that idea of being able to take everything into ONE room for putting away neatly. I'd even have my Ironing Gear in there as well - better than carrying clothes on hangers upstairs. Would also stop kids from messing about with the contents of their drawers when friends were playing in their bedrooms .

My other 'room of envy' would be a 'proper Utility Room' - capable of housing W/m, T/d, all Laundry supplies, and, if necessary, a large Chest Freezer .

We CAN but dream ......................:rotfl:.

GreyQueen

Lilyplonk, Mum and I have often mused on the sheer impracticality of homes.

They draw little plans and put a bedroom here, a sitting-room there, and give no thought whatsoever to how life is actually lived in the home. We are not little plastic mannikins who are either horizonal in our beds or sitting tidily in our living rooms. We have stuff and do stuff.

My family blames house design mostly being in the hands of the gender which doesn't run the household.

When I rule the world (scheduled early 2014, please mark your diary), all new-build homes will have lobbies over the front and back doors, so that you don't let all your heat out whenever you open the door, and that you have somewhere to put the coats, shoes, wet umbrellas etc etc.

Each home must have a dedicated laundry room at least as big as the kitchen, to house the laundry appliances, with large double-sinks for various duties, copious shelvage and nice cupboards for storing the household linens. It will have lots of plug sockets and space for an ironing board to stand permanantly. The ceiling of the laundry room will have to be high enough to accomodate a proper sheila maid type airer.

Preferably, the laundry room will be situated immediately below the Family Wardrobe Room, which will have laundry chutes (whites/ darks/ colours) down into appropriate laundry bins.

Other options currently on the drawing board will be dedicated larders for various kinds of storage, outdoor cool storage for root veggies, log stores and all newbuilt homes to be pre-set to be fitted with logburners.

Homes will also have a smallish room with squashy furniture in soothing colours, as a place to put tantrumming children, and a retiring room for Mother, which will be verboten to all other household members.

Mother's Room will be furnished entirely to her specification but current options under consideration are drinks cabinets, libraries of mags and books according to taste, broadband internet and a hot water dispenser for fast cups of tea or coffee.

Right, my lottie needs me. Toodle-pip!

suelizab

I'm loving your ideas, bring em on!

Lilyplonk

ooooooooooo Laundry chutes!!!!!


How about a 'dumb waiter' for taking the freshly laundered stuff back upstairs again .............?????


Padded-cell for kids in tantrums :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


'Mother's Recovery Room' - what about a coded entry lock on the door - or maybe 'Voice Recognition Activated' to keep the rest of the family out of it .


'Sheila's Maid Airer' - the charity shop that I work in had one of these in last week. The young women that I work with on a Thursday didn't have a clue what it was, so I had to explain it out to them lol ............... ooooh, if only I'd had the space, I'd have grabbed at it myself . In the late 60's/early 70's, my sisters and I used to throw our 'rinsed through tights' over ours every evening - so they were fresh for the next day. Of course, the next day it was 'first up got the best tights' :rotfl:.




Sorry to the OP for going 'off-topic' - I can see this subject becoming a 'its own thread', GreyQueen .

gayleygoo

I'd love to have a room dedicated to storing food! I make do with a cupboard which is always full of tinned tomatoes, pasta, rice, noodles, tinned fruit and beans etc. This was a shock to DH, whose parents never kept a spare tin of anything in.

Straying to the off-topic topic, I once stayed with a family in America who did indeed have a big, separate room for storing the whole family's clothes, the washing machine, tumble dryer, airers and ironing board were all kept in there too. It's such a good idea - my laundry stuff is spread all over the house! They also had a separate pantry, 4 bathrooms, a basement for "stuff" and a massive garage for other "stuff", and several sheds. I told the girl I was staying with that I thought her house was amazing and huge, she replied it wasn't really that big because her family were quite poor. It's a good thing she never had to stay at my house!