Built in linen closet (right); left side was probably a telephone niche
Small niche: Highlight a special object in this small space. For older homes with a real telephone niche, a black vintage phone would certainly be appropriate! Curved wall niche: For the niche with a curved back wall, display objects and/or paint or wallpaper the back. Corner niche: Display an object and/or use a wall treatment on the back walls.
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That's exactly what the phone niche was used for! If you live in a house that was built in the first half of the 1900s, it's possible you've got an odd little nook somewhere on the wall. Its purpose was for the big, bulky phones that we no longer have. They often came with a small shelf underneath where'd you keep your phone book and.
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In this case, the phone sat/stood on the wood shelf, and partly recessed back into the niche. A hinged cabinet below the shelf (left) provided storage for telephone books, and concealed a wall plug, (forerunner to a telephone jack) from which a cord ran up to the telephone through a small hole drilled in the back of the shelf.
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Phone Niche. By 1930, more than 40 percent of American homes had a telephone installed. The new technology brought housekeeping issues—where to keep the phone and how to deal with all the wires. The phone niche, or cabinet, solved the problems. Today, the niche is a place of endless possibilities—display a vase or books; store your keys and.
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DIY Phone Niche. A phone niche is useful today for keys, tablet—or telephone. This phone niche is the original discovered in a 1940 house. It was removed, stripped, stained, and newly installed in the living room. When Lisa Harris was restoring her modest 1940 Spanish Colonial Revival home in Tucson, not many original details were left to save.
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Another telephone niche has surfaced recently in Rock Hill, South Carolina! A big shout-out to Kim Carter, who recently contacted me regarding her purchase of the telephone niche pictured here. It is very similar to Telephone Niches that I have previously posted on, with a few minor detail differences. Hers was purchased from a […]
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Deluxe Telephone Niche Published November 21, 2016 About a month ago (October 2016) I received an inquiry from Karen Henderson, the owner of a 1925 Craftsman Bungalow in the Denver area, regarding whether I had ever seen a phone niche with a fold-down seat and back .
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12. NoPhone. Let's close this out with the most ludicrous niche smartphone available: one that doesn't work. The NoPhone is a self-professed "technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone.
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We were probably right to leave behind many hallmarks of yesterday's home, but it's time to reconsider these 15 once-popular details, not for their novelty, but for their practicality. Mar 28, 2021 - Explore Rich Weare's board "Telephone niche" on Pinterest. See more ideas about wall nook, niches, wall niche.
I found this old phone niche at an architectural salvage yard. We had a
Sep 24, 2019 - Explore Carla Berry's board "Telephone niches" on Pinterest. See more ideas about antique phone, wall niche, niches.
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More Telephone Niche Jeffrey A. Lees, AIA ArchitectJeffrey A. Lees
christmas children's room halloween gift modern vase gift for wife home gift. I love these old phone shelves or niches . They were installed in the hallways of vintage homes for the Phone and phone book to live. A relic of days past they make great storage and shelving for your Cottage or Primitive look. All wood, several layers of chippy paint.
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Vintage telephone nook. Wood phone niche was built into a wall. Built-in shelf or phone holder. Deep shelf to hold the telephone with a cubby under for a phone book. Architectural salvage. Perfect for your old house restoration project or make a new home have old time character.
