Mid Century Monday #2 – hallway built ins
I have always loved going thrifting or even keeping a close eye on the curb for awesome furniture pieces. When we moved into our current home, I thought we would need truckloads of furniture to fill it up since it was about twice the square footage.
What we found, though, was the custom built-ins around every corner (how very mid century modern!) really cut down on the amount of things we needed. Bedrooms at our house, for example, need beds and mayyybe a bedside table. That is it! The kids rooms each have built in desks (for two) and have built in dressers inside one of the room’s three closets. Above the closets you’ll find hidden storage built into the wall!
Likewise, our dining room has one huge wall to wall built in buffet complete with about 15 solid feet of china storage and no less than 10 cabinets underneath that include built-in pull out drawers.
Needless to say we don’t need desks, buffets, bar carts, dressers, chests of drawers, hutches….it has forced me to be very selective with what furniture we DO decide to bring home. So today’s Mid Century Monday post is an example of one out my favorite built-in areas in the house as well as a lucky Heywood Wakefield table find!
First, the hallway. You know you are a little crazy over your own home when you think people care to read about your hallway… but I just love it!! We are talking over 30 feet of extra-wide hallway space with built in bookcases (with under-mount lights) cabinet space, drawers, even a built in gun safe and night lights!
Check it out:
The windows need a serious scrubbing but I love the natural light they let in. The are the perfect height (about chin high for me) to allow privacy so we don’t ever need to cover them!
I love the pretty woodgrain on the drawers! And the sliding storage is where we house extra linens and pillows, the air mattress, and honestly a few of them are just empty because it’s SO. MUCH STORAGE. A good problem!
This tall cabinet on the left is actually a built in gun safe!
Built in under cabinet lighting and the little wire doors slide. I am not 100% set on how I styled this thing because it’s 25 feet long a little overwhelming! So stuff has been thrown onto it along the way.
It’s the little things….but I feel like I couldn’t go without them now that I’ve lived with built in night lights. I know when the boys are old enough to get up and use the bathroom they will appreciate them too.
Now for one of the very few furniture finds I’ve brought into the house!
It spins! I saw it on a FB for sale post for $15 and knew it was a little funky and perfect for the sunroom. When I got it home I was cleaning it up and saw the Heywood Wakefield stamp on the bottom.
I have never stumbled upon a piece of “designer” furniture before so of course I was pricing it against Ebay and Etsy! Some are listed for upwards of $400! But, this one isn’t in perfect shape. And I think it looks too good right where it is 🙂
