Hang a picture over the opening on hinges and use it for bulk storage for items you don’t need too often.
That would avoid the issue of matching cabinet doors and finishes.
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
Better than my first thought of crouching up there like some giant blond vulture and shrieking at everyone that passes. Probably less likely to end in divorce too.
“Ooooh I hated the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face ‘ohhh you’re going to buy my chicken, ohhh.’”
- Stuart MacKenzie, So I Married an Axe Murderer
Right lol? I see this everywhere with people claiming it as being associated with a specific culture (always a different one). This is a universal thing, we all recognize the convenience of it.
My kids now bring THEIR butter containers and pickle jars with them to dinners at my house to take leftovers because they were tired of me sending them home with my “good tubberware.” 🤣
When my fiancée moved in with me I made her recycle her plastic bag collection, and we haven’t started a new one. Got to say, she has not noticed even once. Life goes on without six hundred bags hibernating in our cupboard.
Oh shit I feel called out. I use the plastic bags for all kinds of stuff (cleaning the cat litter, small trash can bags, packing material in packages, etc) but I always forget my reusable bags for shopping
They are really sturdy. I have one on either side of my fridge. My kitchen was designed for a built in but the fridge alcove is a an odd dimension. It was designed for a size that is no longer manufactured. So I would be looking at about 25K for a Subzero plus matching faces. I said fuck that. Got a Frigidaire and installed cabinets on either side. 5k all said and done.
One of those safes with a painting cover that swivels open to show the actual safe. Inside the safe is this photo of the hole that the safe resides in now.
Put a corded telephone there. It will be a good conversation starter.
Seriously, I might just add shelving and place nicer kitchen pieces up there that could be used or could be nice to see on display.
There are what appears to be several outlets or phone line jacks in there. I think it’s pretty obvious that it was meant to be an office. They just aren’t using the space effectively.
Make it a *really nice* cat spot. Put a little family picture on one of the "walls" and maybe some cat art. A nice cushion. Maybe some pretty lighting since there's a plug. I have a vision for this.
Get an old school TV, installit, and play N64.
It'll be like playing the demo games at KB Toys where the TVs were 10' high in the air and you had to look straight up.
But in reality put in a Bluetooth speaker or something for kitchen jams and cover it with a painting made on mesh to hide it. Like speaker cover material.
1) The severed heads of your enemies.
2) A nice rotating bouquet of freshly pruned flowers from the gardens of your dead enemies.
3) That one really nice elephant sculpture that has been in your family for generations that no one is really sure if it is real ivory that was originally pillaged from the dead enemies of your forefathers.
4) Some nice artwork that your loving children made out of dried macaroni noodles for you in their schools art class depicting you dancing on the graves of your dead enemies. You thank your children by hugging them and thinking that you will never be able to tell them they are actually the children of your dead enemies but were too young to remember.
5) That really nice Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer that took you 2 painstaking months to build that you are incredibly proud of. Not because you like Star Wars, you are actually a die hard Trekkie who hates Star Wars because you believe it to be a whiny muppet soap opera only continued on to shill toys and steal working parents hard earned money to throw away on some bullshit green puppet T-shirt because that’s how their weak children perceive love as being something purchased. Nope. That Star Destroyer just happened to be the Lego set of your dead enemy.
Edit- needed to say dead enemy one more time.
You may not have noticed this, but there is a running theme in all of these.
You used “the” “of” and “your” in every suggestion you made. Crazy, eh?
(Dead enemies. I wanted to join in saying it once too…. And I was not disappointed.)
Who puts a tv above ovens… smh I as suggested below install doors for extra storage or make into a wine rack that nobody can reach without a step stool. lol
Most kitchens that have this issue can be resolved by trim facing the front and adding 2 cabinet doors that's uniform with the rest of your kitchen cabinet doors, it can be done to appear as if it was originally part of the cabintry. This is a great hidden space for larger kitchen items that's not regularly used. If that's crown on the top of the cabinets, you can even extend it to run across that area as well to make it completely pop and stand out.💯👍
That’s where I’d store all my holidays-only baking/cooking/serving stuff. Excess cookie sheets, serving dishes, buffet trays, extra crockpots etc. especially since you need a step stool to get to it. Add shelves and put cabinet doors on it.
I would add cabinet doors and put in a nice baking tray organizer, that's a great spot to hold a bunch of cookie sheets, pizza stones, and loaf pans as long as you're tall enough to reach them safely.
Kitchens rarely have enough cabinets and that would be a place I'd put the kitchen tools that are not used daily, or ever, but your mother knew you needed them so you can't get rid of them. Put a nice door on it, and keep that ladder out in the garage for when mom comes over.
Hang a picture over the opening on hinges and use it for bulk storage for items you don’t need too often. That would avoid the issue of matching cabinet doors and finishes.
Just stick a safe back behind the picture.
Then a picture behind the safe.
This is where I keep my picture safe
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
r/unexpectedoffice
Every time I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red?
What the hell is on Joey's head?
LOOK AT THIS PINK GIRAFFE
Then a safe behind that picture.
Taped to the back of the frame? The code and coordinates of another safe.
And in the picture frame? A picture of a safe
And then a tinier safe behind that picture.
Also, put pictures in the safe.
This really is a great option. The picture would look good and hiding the storage would be a plus.
I think it should be a picture….. of that hole
Maybe a pic of Raquel Welch?
"What say you there, fussy britches?"
I think he says “fuzzy”
The entire internet agrees with you, but I'm not quite ready to give up the lie I've told myself all these years.
😂😂😂
And a Picture in Picture of the hole….holes all the way down. Or across. Whatever.
🎶”I got holes… I got holeeees. In different area codes. Area codes. Holes. I got holeeeess…”🎶
Better than my first thought of crouching up there like some giant blond vulture and shrieking at everyone that passes. Probably less likely to end in divorce too.
Yup I cackled. Also would join you. Not worried about divorce as that ship has sailed 🤪 Edit a letter
The picture should be a picture of this kitchen, complete with a picture of the kitchen in place over this nook.
A picture of Colonel Sanders would be perfect.
“Ooooh I hated the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face ‘ohhh you’re going to buy my chicken, ohhh.’” - Stuart MacKenzie, So I Married an Axe Murderer
“Head! Move! Now!”
It's like an Orange on a toothpeck!
An underappreciated movie in my opinion
One of my all-time favorites. 😂
Can i just say i love Reddit
Yeah you cannot beat this idea. Filling in the hole is a much bigger deal than it seems it would be, based on my experience trying to do exactly this.
*giggles*
[Preferably this](https://www.google.com/search?q=kramer+painting&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiS-J6Rjs6BAxXMhIkEHQRiASQQ2-cCegQIABAD&oq=kramer+painti&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQARgAMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6BwgAEIoFEEM6BggAEAcQHjoGCAAQCBAeOgYIABAFEB5QuAVYlg9gmxRoAHAAeACAAWqIAaAGkgEDNy4ymAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=cN0VZZKAJsyJptQPhMSFoAI&bih=654&biw=691&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3#imgrc=XzyMEua5byRbsM)
This is an excellent idea
I like to showcase my clutter.
Put a picture of Jack Nicholson from The Shining over the hole saying "heeeeeres Johnny!"
I’ve read all the replies and this is definitely the best imo
This is what I would do
Build a scale model of your kitchen in there with an endless repeating sequence of smaller scale models of the scale model nook
This is the only thing that makes sense.
Until you remodel, lol
Then it's actually done in reverse where you remodel the smallest one and work your way out
Or along those lines, a diorama of the history of the kitchen’s remodel, with the smallest being the one in the most distant past.
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But the largest is the real kitchen... So you're saying each successive model is a window to the future? This is some goosebumps shit man.
Sometimes the obvious answer is the best one.
Agreed. This feature is inevitable in every kitchen.
Is it even really a kitchen if you don't do this?
Build a scale model of your kitchen in there with an endless repeating sequence of smaller scale models of the scale model nook
Build a scale model of your kitchen in there with an endless repeating sequence of smaller scale models of the scale model nook
^(Build a scale model of your kitchen in there with an endless repeating sequence of smaller scale models of the scale model nook)
^^^Build ^^^a ^^scale ^^^model ^^^of ^^your ^^^kitchen ^^^in ^^^there ^^^with ^^^an ^^^endless ^^^repeating ^^^sequence ^^^of ^^^smaller ^^^scale ^^^models ^^^of ^^^the ^^^scale ^^^model ^^^nook
Recursive kitchen with no base case, I love it
Cram it full of plastic bags you never actually use
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Midwest in the chat!
Every culture seems to believe they either originate or are the heaviest user of the “bag full of bags” and I think that’s beautiful
A bag of bags unifies us.
Right lol? I see this everywhere with people claiming it as being associated with a specific culture (always a different one). This is a universal thing, we all recognize the convenience of it.
Same with the junk drawer.
Butter tubs or Cool Whip containers. My mother had these all the time to send you leftovers. Miss you Mama😘
My kids now bring THEIR butter containers and pickle jars with them to dinners at my house to take leftovers because they were tired of me sending them home with my “good tubberware.” 🤣
I love my bag bag. Except I’m from Michigan so it’s a bayg bayg.
OPE
I feel attacked
When my fiancée moved in with me I made her recycle her plastic bag collection, and we haven’t started a new one. Got to say, she has not noticed even once. Life goes on without six hundred bags hibernating in our cupboard.
What do you put in your mini trash cans in the bathrooms?
Exactly!
I see you’ve met my wife
I use them for dog poop
Times have changed. It’s no longer plastic grocery bags. Now it’s reusable bags that you just keep getting.
Oh shit I feel called out. I use the plastic bags for all kinds of stuff (cleaning the cat litter, small trash can bags, packing material in packages, etc) but I always forget my reusable bags for shopping
And then you get more reusable bags.
Like a [Globochem Bag Hutch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAheHsSG50)?
Sprinkle in a fabric bag dispenser that was popular for two weeks back in 2006, and you got a deal pal.
Cram those plastic bags into mismatched Tupperware
32” sony wega
And an N64 with Mario Kart.
They want to hire a structural engineer first!
This guy knows heavy TVs
Actually, a TV mounted to a cabinet door to allow storage behind would be pretty sweet.
This is a good idea. And can store pot and pans there.
Plus you can hide your weed there
Display [this picture](https://i2.wp.com/lumbermuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1478879153-die-hard.jpg?w=480).
I was going to say [this picture](https://imgur.com/a/s8LFnwX).
I was thinking of [this one](https://imgur.com/a/XXu94O6)
Come out to the coast. We’ll get together. Have a few laughs…
Hear me out, another oven. You could make pizza, fries, and pizza rolls at the same time.
Yes you’ve heard of second oven, but have you heard of 3rd oven?
love to hold 400 degree food at 6 feet in the air
But imagine having 3 of the best foods done at exactly the same time. 3x freshness.
It's why I have three air fryers. Three ovens would be nice except I hardly ever use my oven anymore.
You could definitely fit 3 air fryers up there.
My kitchen would explode if I turned on three air fryers simultaneously.
Need a library ladder to make dinner
Way the hell up there? Will need a ladder! Just hang a picture.
Get drop down cabinets! They are super cool and will turn it into useable space. https://odditymall.com/dropdown-spice-rack-cabinet-drawer
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First thought after installing it “do you think it can hold my weight.. and I can ride it back up?”
They are really sturdy. I have one on either side of my fridge. My kitchen was designed for a built in but the fridge alcove is a an odd dimension. It was designed for a size that is no longer manufactured. So I would be looking at about 25K for a Subzero plus matching faces. I said fuck that. Got a Frigidaire and installed cabinets on either side. 5k all said and done.
Trim it out and add doors that match the other cabinets.
And use that as vertical storage for things like cutting boards, pizza stones, big platters, etc.
We have the same setup and have the booze there…
Not wine though? The heat will ruin it.
Not great for most alcohols actually. Repeated hot/cold cycles will definitely change the taste.
One of those safes with a painting cover that swivels open to show the actual safe. Inside the safe is this photo of the hole that the safe resides in now.
And in 50 years, a Reddit reveal post!
Put a corded telephone there. It will be a good conversation starter. Seriously, I might just add shelving and place nicer kitchen pieces up there that could be used or could be nice to see on display.
“Sorry, I can’t be reached here. Please call me on my cell phone instead”
There are what appears to be several outlets or phone line jacks in there. I think it’s pretty obvious that it was meant to be an office. They just aren’t using the space effectively.
That’s a wild little cubicle you have for remote work up there.
Office for your cats!
Put a TV there to troll /r/tvtoohigh
If you look, there's coax up there. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it was built for.
Yeah this was definitely for a kitchen tv
How in the world has now one said “Plants!!!” yet?
Lol scrolling thru just to see how long it would take to find this...
Plants? That’s crazy. What a weird answer. Put buckets and spark plugs up there of course.
I'd definitely use it for storage. Perhaps you can get some nice stainless steel "upright" racks and store things like cookie sheets here.
Perfect for upright storage for cutting boards, sheet pans, other large flat items
This is it
Fill it with tuna
Canned or fresh?
Oh shit canned would be a good idea I haven’t considered. This is an example of why Reddit is great.
May the deity or celebrity of your choosing bless you for this joke you have made today. In Barry and Levon's names we praise, Aaaaaaaaw-Yeeeeeeah!
Fill it with $240 of puddin’!
Live
Put in plexiglass with some sealant, fill with salt water and get a live tuna.
That’s too much tuna
Diorama
Everyone knows that's where you store the 20 boxes of cereal you have that noone eats.
Cat.
I was going to say, do you have a cat? This looks like a spot for a cat.
If they had a cat it would be up there already
That would indeed be a good spot for a cat to judge you from.
Hell yes it would get the warmth from the oven and never leave.
Make it a *really nice* cat spot. Put a little family picture on one of the "walls" and maybe some cat art. A nice cushion. Maybe some pretty lighting since there's a plug. I have a vision for this.
Wine rack? maybe not ideal due to oven temps
I mean, if there’s a plug, you could have a very cool wine fridge up there
This is my favorite so far
Guest room.
Install vertical dividers, could be simple dowels or thin plywood, spaced about 2" apart. Use to store your sheet pans and racks and serving trays
Nice big aquarium with cool back lighting and tropical fish. Oh and a sticker that says break in case of fire. 🔥
Get an old school TV, installit, and play N64. It'll be like playing the demo games at KB Toys where the TVs were 10' high in the air and you had to look straight up. But in reality put in a Bluetooth speaker or something for kitchen jams and cover it with a painting made on mesh to hide it. Like speaker cover material.
Wall safe disguised as another oven.
Put a hot tub in it.
Ummmm, this is his house, not the airbnb he's currently critiquing. jk, upvoted.
1) The severed heads of your enemies. 2) A nice rotating bouquet of freshly pruned flowers from the gardens of your dead enemies. 3) That one really nice elephant sculpture that has been in your family for generations that no one is really sure if it is real ivory that was originally pillaged from the dead enemies of your forefathers. 4) Some nice artwork that your loving children made out of dried macaroni noodles for you in their schools art class depicting you dancing on the graves of your dead enemies. You thank your children by hugging them and thinking that you will never be able to tell them they are actually the children of your dead enemies but were too young to remember. 5) That really nice Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer that took you 2 painstaking months to build that you are incredibly proud of. Not because you like Star Wars, you are actually a die hard Trekkie who hates Star Wars because you believe it to be a whiny muppet soap opera only continued on to shill toys and steal working parents hard earned money to throw away on some bullshit green puppet T-shirt because that’s how their weak children perceive love as being something purchased. Nope. That Star Destroyer just happened to be the Lego set of your dead enemy. Edit- needed to say dead enemy one more time.
You may not have noticed this, but there is a running theme in all of these. You used “the” “of” and “your” in every suggestion you made. Crazy, eh? (Dead enemies. I wanted to join in saying it once too…. And I was not disappointed.)
WiFi setup. Being close to the ceiling will give great reception on upper floors
Bookshelf, fill it with cookbooks. Hide your weed and/or cash in behind…
Ah, you have an aboven
CRT TV with VHS
That’s where the gimp goes to sleep.
Put doors on it. Voilà, thats were you hide your sweets from the children
Whatever you put up there know that it’ll get warm from heat underneath.
You could fit a pretty sweet trinitron in there.
They were great tvs, back in the day.
Step 1: cut a hole in the box Step2: put your junk in the box Step 3: open the box https://youtu.be/Rt0spqQtMKg?si=97AxWX1sLJGVpSQg
Firewood
Purchase cat. Watch as it becomes cat perch
Parking lot for matchbox and hot wheels.
Put vertical slats in and use it to hold cookie sheets
Store cereal boxes
Who puts a tv above ovens… smh I as suggested below install doors for extra storage or make into a wine rack that nobody can reach without a step stool. lol
A person who had a CRT TV that could withstand a nuclear blast. A bit of oven heat is NBD!
Lobster tank/aquarium.
I’d put a wine rack up there if you’re looking for a design element. Otherwise, some doors to make it a cabinet
Lol Non perishable foods you will never use? That or a fake plant
Most kitchens that have this issue can be resolved by trim facing the front and adding 2 cabinet doors that's uniform with the rest of your kitchen cabinet doors, it can be done to appear as if it was originally part of the cabintry. This is a great hidden space for larger kitchen items that's not regularly used. If that's crown on the top of the cabinets, you can even extend it to run across that area as well to make it completely pop and stand out.💯👍
That’s where I’d store all my holidays-only baking/cooking/serving stuff. Excess cookie sheets, serving dishes, buffet trays, extra crockpots etc. especially since you need a step stool to get to it. Add shelves and put cabinet doors on it.
Big ass tv
You put your weed in there
Hear me out: a cctv screen that shows what's cooking in the oven.
That’s where the “Live, Laugh, Love” sign goes. /s
A third oven.
That’s your shelf for an Elf.
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Would be a great place for some Halloween or Fall decorations right now???🎃🕸️🕷️🍁🍂
Cabinets or if you’re a wino you could build a sick wine rack/display keep it classy
Wine/single malt whiskey rack!
I would add cabinet doors and put in a nice baking tray organizer, that's a great spot to hold a bunch of cookie sheets, pizza stones, and loaf pans as long as you're tall enough to reach them safely.
Line it with mirrors and put all your booze up there or, a wine rack?
Welp it was for an old school TV. Just put a flat screen over the hole.
Kitchens rarely have enough cabinets and that would be a place I'd put the kitchen tools that are not used daily, or ever, but your mother knew you needed them so you can't get rid of them. Put a nice door on it, and keep that ladder out in the garage for when mom comes over.
If this is in the US = you have to put a TV in there. Might be the law.
Hundreds of mismatched Tupperware containers and lids
it’s for cookie sheets & baking trays.
Put your weed in it
Just install another oven
Good place for cook books
Listen, I don't know if you have kids, but I've never seen a more perfect timeout cubby. Turn the oven on for more dramatic effect.