Wondering if anyone else had a cubbyhole in their house?

Jace

Jace

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(A snug or cramped space; compartment)

Ours was in the basement, a small narrow "cramped" space with one lightbulb
where the Christmas decorations were kept..
Along with other items that weren't used very often
On shelves with sheets covering..to keep the dust "down"..
Of course..it wasn't cleaned..'cause you didn't go into it very often
But, when I had to go get something for Mom..
I always a "ran into a cobweb".😖

Anyone else?🤔
 

Yep I have a cupboard under the stairs in my kitchen.... it wasn't there when we first moved to this house over 40 years ago.. but there was also no closet or cupboard space at all at that time, so eventually when we first had the kitchen ripped out and renewed, there was a space behind the door to build a cupboard just big enough to stand in which has the gas and elec meters in it, and is big enough to hold the ironing board and the Vacuum cleaner.. but because the ceiling is slanted at that point due to the stairs above, the cupboard door is only a 3/4 door.. and we have to bend to go into the cupboard..
 
HD..Sounds like what I've seen on the British TV show "As Time goes by"...
where Jean(Judy Dench) and Lionel..hide in... underneath the stairs(sloped) 👍
 

Jace said:
HD..Sounds like what I've seen on the British TV show "As Time goes by"...
where Jean(Judy Dench) and Lionel..hide in... underneath the stairs(sloped) 👍
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yes exactly like that, and most people in the Uk if they have an under stairs cupboard it's in the hall, literally under the stairs, like in Time Goes BY... but I don't have one in my hall because the wall under my stairs is solid brick...so the cupboard could only go under the slope of the ceiling above the stairs..which slopes into the kitchen...
 
We had what my parents called 'a glory hole'. No idea where that expression comes from but it was any space in the house which didn't have a specified purpose.
 
most Canadians have a basement..whether finished or not twas where stuff was kept..canned goods…toys..washer dryer..my escape from thunder storms..I would never have considered buying a house without a basement…my safe place from the weather!
 
Lavinia said:
We had what my parents called 'a glory hole'. No idea where that expression comes from but it was any space in the house which didn't have a specified purpose.
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yes we had a full walk in closet with a frosted glass door in the livingroom of the last house I lived in as a child... which was shelved out, and held all sorts of stuff, and that was called the Glory Hole
 
I have a room downstairs that I rarely go into. It used to be an art studio when my nephew lived here but now it's where broken furniture & other odds & ends are.
Last week, I found a dead bat on the floor.
 
My equivalent is the junk cupboard. Most of the contents are not really junk but things like the vacuum cleaner and other tools. I do have some boxes of stuff from the past and, whenever I sort out the cupboard, I end up spending several hours delving into the "sentimental" boxes.

I love bats and spiders! :)
 
Trish said:
I love bats
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I used to, but about 10 years ago a colony of several hundred moved into our walls. They seem to have found small openings beneath the siding that let them get into the spaces between inner and outer wall. They moved in all at once and proved very hard to get rid of. A bat or two is fine, hundreds can be a problem.

The bat bridge in Austin has millions, very impressive to see, once.
 
When a child, my sister and I had attic bedrooms, one on either side of the chimney. Each had a closet that was connected by a crawl space several feet in length that ran around the chimney. That connecting closet crawl space was a great cubbyhole where on your hands and knees you could pretend that you were navigating a cavern, or were a soldier on a mission to infiltrate enemy territory…
 

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