The Lion, The Witch & The Pantry...

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Just a quick domestic post - illustrated in the above digital daguerreotype is a small additional shelving unit I've just built for the pantry - the place was becoming a bit of a tip, so I took the opportunity to clean the place out, triage the tinned and bottled victuals and marking the seriously out of date stuff for disposal, and build a bit more storage space.

I wanted to make something that would offer a couple of shelves for canned goods but which wouldn't intrude too much onto the limited floor space of our little larder, so I came up with the idea of a triangulated support, with the centre shelf rabbeted into the two legs to add rigidity. the legs were wedged to height before screwing to the back wall skirting, as the floor is very uneven and slopes toward the right. 

It's done the trick anyway, as you could cheerfully use the thing to climb on. The place is now usable again. BTW, the door is the connecting door to our cottage-annexe/granny-flat thing known as 'Bank's Cottage - Unspoilt by Progress'. You enter from our kitchen, through the pantry, and into the cottage: a bit C.S. Lewis...


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  1. Joe Stoner5 September 2021 at 12:10

    It reminds me of an long lost mate, Dusty, who was the first director of the Bradford Festival. He got the job by using a terrace of houses for a weekend long party. You went into the end one and gained access to the rest by going through a wadrobe that had its back removed and was fitted into a hole in an adjoining wall:) It was in the 80's and I wasn't told about it until after it had happened!:((
    ATB
    Joe

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    1. sideways5 September 2021 at 16:06

      We've always been minded of Clochmerle or the Beatles' terrace in Help! as far as our house is concerned: it's got three front doors...

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