Getting Rid of WASPs in ALCoves
Thursday, June 18, 2009
10:06 PM
If you are staring at a particular corner of your house in perplexity with the following questions running through your mind...
How do I maximise little/tight spaces in my house?
How do I arrange my furniture when I have space constraint?
...then you've come to the right place! It is really typical of those terrace or linked houses to have that little alcove smack right in the middle of your staircase. You know...the part where your staircase does a little turn? I call it the ALCove, or in other words...
"Annoying Little Corner"
Annoying - because it's just too small for you to do anything with and inevitably results in the WASP problem: WAste of SPace
Well, one day, we had this really GREAT idea and wandered over to the nearest furniture mall to purchase our great bargain:
A 6x2 feet RM250 shoe cabinet
There: effective use of the space!
We were pretty happy and patted each other's backs. No more irrititaing WASPy ALCoves. After a few days however, we started despairing again. The more we looked at our ALCove with the shoe cabinet staring back at us, the more our brains criticised it. Finally, we had no choice but to acknowledge it:
The WASP problem was back again
We also discovered that we had no place to dump our bags whenever we came home from work/shopping/sports. Strewing those bags on the ground, albeit temporarily, proved to be too much of an eyesore. A quick, practical solution was needed.
Thanks to IKEA (one of our favourite jaunts), we discovered this wall hook which besides being aesthetically pleasing, also had the advantage of being totally affordable. We call it the Butterfly Hook.
Two Butterfly Hooks did the trick. Now, we had a place to hang our bags instead of unceremoniously dumping them on the floor. But, what about the WASP problem?
Tadaa!
Unfortunately the photo had to be made overly bright in order for you to see the SKUBB organiser clearly
Again, at IKEA, we got this wonderful L-shaped bracket (only RM9.90) and the SKUBB organiser (RM25) to hang from the bracket. We pushed the shoe cabinet all the way to the right to fit the SKUBB organiser.
Behold our Butterfly Hooks and SKUBB organiser in action! Note how you can stuff your shoe boxes into the cute cubby holes of the SKUBB organiser!Of course, to spice things up a little, you could also get those handy little MALMA mirrors from IKEA too for only RM6.90 for a little decoration!
Happy Ending: No WASPy ALCoves
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