What about shelves with baskets for storage?

That is a very odd space, but lucky you - it's great for storage.

Yes, shelves with baskets. I would look for the baskets first - find ones that both fit the area and what you need to store. You can then design where the shelves will sit so that access to the baskets works best. Kid's baskets can be low down, adults higher.

You could also hang a curtain to mask the whole area.

what are the dimensions? could you install some kind of pull out pantry mechanism? In our family if I put reach in shelves in there I'd be asking for a mess. I found this picture, but something like this might be cost prohibitive;

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Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but wouldn't the position of the toilet interfere with anything that pulled out very far?

Lisa

Have open shelving below and above the toilet have pullout. This tower is about 15", outer dimension, wide. You would be able to have a deeper upper than I have. But you wouldn't have to use the whole depth of what you have available either.

Enduring where is that tower from? The dimensions are 15" wide and 96" tall. The bump out to the left of the opening is a linen closet in the master bedroom so it has to stay as well.

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Some floating shelfs (like the example above on the right) would be easy to build and look nice. maybe some back lit glass shelfs if you like the bling.

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Either of these style features would change up the space nicely.

Ooh you guys are awesome; I've been so spoiled by the advice over in the kitchen forum and I'm glad to see it's the same here :)

Tigger, My tower was custom made by a wonderful local cabinet maker where I live. The center part is where we brought in electricals. The center area is also the bump-in area of my kitchen niche on the other side of the wall.

This is the kitchen niche:

We used a Lee Valley pull out for our narrow deep shelf in the kitchen. It is only about two or three feet tall so you could do one of those at the top and then open shelving with baskets at the bottom.

Very easy to install yourself and it changed our cabinet from useless space to indispensable.