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Found secret drawer in kitchen!

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Boxshibe · 07/05/2023 11:39

Deep cleaning kitchen ready for inspection. I obviously don't pay attention as I found a drawer under the built in oven and weve been herea year. What's it for? Plates?
Anyone else found something secret in their house?

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FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 07/05/2023 17:43

YaWeeSkitter · 07/05/2023 12:18

In a holiday cottage we spent the best part of an hour looking for cutlery .
The cottage was well fitted out with everything else so missing knives and forks were a mystery. It was only after giving up and using a measuring spoon for our drinks that someone spotted that the utensil drawer was actually a double decker. There was a slim drawer above it which had a flush edge and no pull or anything to give it away. And there was the missing cutlery!
I was torn between being annoyed and admiring the design.

Its was only afterwards that we read the instructions for finding the drawer in the cottage handbook. A simple sticky label would have helped though.

This has also caught me out in holiday apartments too.

Beebumble2 · 07/05/2023 17:45

We bought a house from a jeweller, there was a secret room, big cupboard, between two of the bedrooms, behind what was a normal fitted cupboard. We turned it into an en suite. There were also a couple of floor safes.

NotMeNoNo · 07/05/2023 17:48

It's just a way of using the 4 inch dead space because a standard oven is a bit smaller than a standard base unit. Most kitchens just have a blanking panel, I'd love to convert it to a drawer.

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daisydalrymple · 07/05/2023 18:22

Who is inspecting your kitchen and why? 🧐 (misses point of thread 🤣)

Heinzbakedbeans · 07/05/2023 18:35

I lived in a rented studio flat for over a year before I realised what I thought was a plank of wood next to the oven wasn't actually a plank of wood, it was a narrow opening. The kitchen units were black gloss and I had very little natural light in the kitchen which was shoved in an alcove in the room so I didn't realise this extra space existed. Thereafter my oven trays were moved there. 😂

reluctantbrit · 07/05/2023 18:37

These ones are normally not deep enough for proving drawers.

I store my rolling pin, baking mats and wire racks in there.

AspinallaSmythe · 07/05/2023 18:41

I found an inglenook fireplace and a staircase in an old house. It had been three cottages, knocked into one. Two of the rooms were panelled (badly from the 50s). When we ripped it off we found the fireplace first, lots of dead bats.

Then in another room a tight staircase with lots of turns, wallpaper from the 40s and a ton of rubbish 🤯, old emulsion cans, bags of rubble - it was dire!

We opened up the fireplace and cleared out the rubbish/plasterboarded up the stairs as the layout of the house meant that they didn’t go anywhere and messed up the kitchen plan.

Mimilamore · 07/05/2023 18:44

We once found a whole walk in pantry behind a work top in my daughter's flat. Only spotted it because of small upstairs window we couldn't place!

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