My kitchen has a few odd spaces and quirks.  One of them is that the door into the library is angled. It’s the old railroad construction joke. So that 4′ section of wall has a slight angle on it

That 8″ space was also wasted.  It was big enough to want something put there, but not big enough to actually put anything in. So… I built something.

The top is just a piece of 1×8 oak with a quick angle and notch cut into it in order to fit around the door frame.  Originally, it was just that top (to hold the coffee maker, Hot Shot, etc.), but I later came back and built the shelves below. That was just too much space to leave unused.

The legs are made out of scrap pieces of contemporary red oak.  The shelves (in the slatted Prairie Style) are fast-growth mahogany from a set of cheap bi-fold doors that broke. Almost everything I build is out of reclaimed lumber.  Why throw away those doors when they can be turned into something appealing and useful?

The top is not actually attached to the shelves.  It’s attached to the wall, and rests on top of the shelves (which aren’t attached to anything). This allows me to remake the top once I get around to rebuilding the door frame.

And so a tiny “unusable” space becomes very functional.  It’s one of the most used storage spaces in my kitchen.