For some very odd reason, the tiny bathroom on the first floor of my house had 2 entrances–one from (what has become) my office, and one from the kitchen.  The bathroom is about 8’x8′. It certainly doesn’t need 2 doors.

So, right when I moved in, I boarded up the door from the kitchen, and tossed in some quick shelves.  Over time, it became an integral part of my kitchen storage, so I decided to do it right.

First and foremost, I got pulled off the cheap (second-hand) pine framing with a bazillion coats of cheap white paint, and replaced them with oak cut in the clean craftsman style that I’m using throughout the house.

The shelves were set to heights that match the bottles that sit on them.  Every one of the bottles is reused from something that would have been thrown away.

• 2nd row from the top is mostly tequila bottles. I had been using scotch bottles (you can see a few on the left), but the tequila bottle have the same volume with a narrower profile. They hold grains.
• The row below that is square bottles from sesame oil. The left side are spices, the right side are herbs.
• Below that are 4 green bottles with booze (leftovers that weren’t drunk) on the left, and clear bottle of dried herbs on the right (most are empty now, because I don’t have a garden this year).
• The penultimate row is large scotch bottles with various types of rice on the right.  On the left are sesame seeds and Sichuan chili flakes to make chili oil.
• The bottom shelf are tubes from scotch. They hold a range of pasta (listed on the white labels)

On the baseboard is an antique lock mechanism that I don’t have a key for.  So.. it’s just a fun decoration that gets a gizmo out of the drawers in my workshop.

This is an amazingly useful adaptation to to a useless doorway, and gets used pretty much every time I cook.  Trying to store all of that stuff elsewhere would be a logistical nightmare.