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your stuff? 
I didn't know how to fit what I really wanted to ask in the subject line.  We just scored a much needed sideboard/hutch off of Craigslist (for a song!  God answered a very fervent prayer of mine the other day!). So I'm trying to figure out what should go where. We used to store all our wedding gift china, serving pieces, etc under our bed (I'm telling ya, the house is very small on storage!). So now I think I've got most of that in the sideboard.
Now I'm wondering what else should go in one. If you have a china cabinet or sideboard/hutch type thing, what do you keep in there? (I'm trying very hard not to just fill it up with homeschooling stuff. )
What about under your bed (now that mine is more empty) - do you store things under there? I just learned the trick about storing a set of sheets under the mattress, and I am *loving* that trick!
I'm trying to make a "place for everything" so I can put everything in it's place!
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in my buffet (doesn't have the chine hutch on top of it)
I have the pretty serving dishes, dh's grandmother's china, the tea cups (many of which are also heirloom), the punch bowl and cake plate.. in the drawers are the cloth napkins and tableclothes and runners and various decorative cloths (and crocheted doilies) and the taper candles and holders and platters and candy dishes and such. in one silverware drawer is my extra stainless and in the other my votive candles.. and in the very top drawer is the audio cassette tapes we still have (the stereo is on top of the buffet).
I don't have underbed storage.... yet.. but when I do I was seriously considering moving all the Christmas decor into boxes that would fit nicely under there. Then it's only once a year that I'd have to crawl under there to pull everything out (and once to put the empties back and once to pull the empties out and once to put them all away full again) But I like the idea that that stuff would be able to be stored inside and that the easier to get to storage (like the shelf in the hall closet) could be used for things that I need to access more often than those.
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I have a hutch in my dining room. I should just post a picture of it, but I haven't figured that out and it's really dusty anyway, so...
in the 'open' (clear) glassed-in area with three glass shelves we store wedding china, wineglasses and highball glasses, breakable candlesticks and treasures from my grandmother I want to keep out of my kids' paws.
Below that there are two doors with rippled glass. This part has a wooden bottom so there we store serving pieces for entertaining that come out of hiding infrequently (formal platters, my big gravy boat, chips and dip servers).
Below that are two silverware-sized drawers. I lined both of those drawers with silverware trays. In one I keep the extra stainless my mother bought me for Christmas a couple of years ago. The other drawer holds a variety of serving pieces that have come my way over the years.
I also found the silver teaspoons my grandmother left me that belonged to my great-grandparents; some are engraved with their initials. Getting those displayed is going on my to-do list!
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We also have a beverage cart in the dining room. That holds the sanctuary-style candles we keep on our altars (I bought a case, these are the extras); dining room candles; unlikely-to-be-broken candle holders; vases; my husband's wine and wine accessories; ice bucket.
Thanks for the break from tearing my kitchen apart. Now, back to work!
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don't have one!
but if one were to comeour way... I would prefer on without the glassdoored part on top. just the buffet.
I would store my kitchen/diningroom linen in it. nice serving patters, cake plates, candle holder etc... anything that isn't normal everyday wear/use.
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I just have a buffet. A door on each end and two drawers in the middle.
Left door - serving platters and copper serving bowls.
Right door - school workbooks and binders currently using.
Top drawer - table runners, candles, cookie cutters, Holy Water.
Bottom drawer - colored pencils, sharpies , crayons, coloring paper.
We have a learning room downstairs, but this winter we decided to do all the lessons upstairs so we could keep the heating bill down. I moved the computer upstairs and purged everything in the buffet.
My kitchen table/island has four drawers on each side, and that's where all the napkins, napkin rings, paper plates, etc. are kept.
I have one rubbermaid tub that stores my out-of-season clothes, and just yesterday I put it under our bed. Usually I keep it "under the stairs", but it is too hard to keep crawling under there.
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amyable wrote:
your stuff?
....What about under your bed (now that mine is more empty) - do you store things under there? ... |
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The only thing we store under our bed are the table leafs (or is it leaves?) to prevent warping. It is the only place big enough to store them flat.
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Stacy in MI
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We have a buffet, not a china cabinet. It has built in wine storage, two shelves, one big drawer and two smaller drawers. It currently holds our wedding china (in the big drawer), wedding flatware (in a little drawer), some fancy serving plates and napkins (in the other little drawer), wine (in the wine storage), cookbooks and ceramic pottery (on the shelves). Under our bed I keep my lounge-y clothes (workout clothes, sweats, PJs, etc) in an underbed bin. I'm also going to encourage my husband to use his side for storage of some of his things.
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My buffet holds our learning books that we want to keep within reach. We school at the dining room table.
I do wish at times it was full of lovely napkins and table linens... I mean I wish it was lovely instead of well used. KWIM?
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