While reading the discussion about phone niches last week, we learned that AT:SF regular aquarabbit uses hers to store CDs and DVDs.
We thought that was a great idea, and in light of another recent post on media storage, we asked her to share images. She graciously responded.
Here you can see the extra-long nook, barely discernible behind her CD collection. And it does indeed make a great place to store media.
She writes,
"I still wonder what this niche was originally for. It's kind of big for a telephone niche, but I can't figure out what it is. It makes a perfect home for CDs and DVDs.
Maybe it was originally used for an ironing board? Looks to big to be a phone niche.
TOO big. Sorry.
I have the same (or similar) sized niche in my apartment as well. The location is very awkward and makes it difficult to decorate around. I have no idea what it was originally intended to hold.
I've been slowly filling up the shelves with appropriately sized paintings.
i think it was where the electric heater was at one point. those ugly big wall units? i had something like that in a house off of lake.
Dana does everything with grace and style. I just wish she would adopt me.
A wall heater! That makes so much sense, since the forced air heating was most certainly added later. I wonder why they didn't wall up the niche? In any event, it worked out well for me that they didn't!
I had the shelves cut at the lumber place on Mission, and used simple l-shaped brackets to attach them. I'm really impressed that I was able to do enough math to get everything to work out right; I'm no math whiz by any stretch.
Beautiful
I have a Mexican Day of the Dead figure in my phone niche, but will be relocating her soon as the resident toddler keeps getting taller but no less clumsy (the figure is made of clay and I've already had to glue her broken fingers twice).
Another possibility is that it could have been a spot for a Murphy table. I've seen them in old SF apartments that are short on space.