When you have a seemingly wasteful purchase
hanging around your cabinets, there is only one thing to do: Use it.
Not exact matches
It's not a spice I really pay much attention to, but for some reason I always happen to have a small jar of it
hanging around in the spice
cabinet.
This can loop
around your neck, but can also be
hung up on any handy
cabinet knob, or used as a table lamp, or just rested on your tummy if you read in bed.
You could literally build an arcade
cabinet around your TV,
hang a sign outside your door, something classy like «Hurley's Emporium of Awesome», and charge a quarter per play (put it on «Insane» difficulty and watch as you really rake in the coins).
In Shattered Memories, most of the puzzles involved tracking down a key to open a door, and the key you needed was always either somewhere in the same room,
hanging in a
cabinet, or just
around the corner.
There's also a fine selection of furniture on the stands, from a white japanned
hanging corner cupboard dated to
around 1720 at Michael Pashby, to a Louis Philippe
cabinet at Carlton Hobbs.
My kitchen has the same «big window over sink,
around a corner with a bank of
cabinets, and microwave
hanging from the top
cabinets» feel that yours has.
I've made many of these and love attaching them to presents,
hang them from
cabinet knobs, tie them
around candles.....
This one usually sits on my china
cabinet / Welsh cupboard with a little chalkboard sign
hanging around the handle.....
I like to use the same elements
around the room to help make things flow and feel cohesive — the same glass bud vases and spring blooms, old books, a pop of green, and the color of the frames mimic the tone of the wicker bottle and map
hanging over the apothecary
cabinet.