What do you keep in your cupboard???

I keep a husband in mine 😄

Not really, of course ~ he was just sorting the cupboard out as we wanted to actually make use of it for storage rather than as a dumping ground for all and sundry 😉  It's opposite the cupboard-under-the-stairs, in a tiny lobby area between the dining room and the kitchen, and before we had the kitchen door taken off I always felt like we were going into some kind of air-lock between the two rooms!  I don't think that the lobby itself was made when the house was built; rather, it seems to have been made by partitioning off a corner of the dining room.  This has created the alcove we have in there, and to be honest it's made the room a little awkward for setting out furniture.  Still, the cupboard in the lobby does give us more storage space so it has an up-side too I guess.

The top half that Adrian was working on originally had a pair of doors like the lower section but we decided to remove them to give us open shelves.  For some reason best known to themselves the previous owners of St Abbs had papered over the rather lovely wooden tongue-and-groove cladding ~ they also added hardboard panels to the cupboard doors, top and bottom, which we will most likely remove at some point.  And not only had they stuck the wallpaper to the cladding with wallpaper paste, they added some staples and tacks for good measure!  The walls of the lobby have also been given the same treatment 😒

Ta-daa!  Adrian made a really good job of stripping back to the tongue-and-groove cladding, and I think it looks rather lovely now ~ well, at the very least it certainly looks very much lovelier than it did 😉

 I've finally been able to get my cookery, gardening and other miscellaneous books out of the blue plastic crates they've been stored in since we moved here, along with some of my little knick-knacks.  What's left of the latter will eventually find a home as décor in the porch when we finally have it refurbished.  I had a really good sort out of the books and was surprisingly ruthless over what I eventually decided to keep ~ Marie Kondo would be proud of me 😄