Special spaces - my herb room

I have a tiny space set aside for dealing with my herbs. I needed somewhere dry, airy, and without direct sunlight to lay out or hang my herbs to dry. I found the perfect little space in a corner of the laundry. I managed to squish an old oak set of drawers that came from my Nana into a gap beside the washing machine (the drawers themselves actually hold all my sewing bits and pieces such as threads, buttons, pin cushion, and other odd bits and pieces). I put up a wee shelf with hooks and can use the windowsill for added storage.

Right across from it I cleared a shelf in my linen cupboard for further storage. It's a great space as it opens directly from my kitchen, with its useful benches and other utensils easily at hand.



 Shelf space for glass jars, dried herbs (this photo was taken before summer, and that shelf is now full of jars of dried herbs that I gathered), vodka for tinctures, paper bags for storing herbs that aren't good in jars, and a muslin cloth that I use when foraging or for laying my herbs on to dry (and also useful for straining when I made Cleavers Lemonade). Check out the cute detailed wooden boxes that came from an old Singer sewing machine table.