Your odd space may have spent part of its life as a nook and time as a nook can have a serious and powerfully negative effect on your future efforts to keep random stuff out of it. Once a place has been a catch all, moving it along to a future, non-storage use is among the most difficult of all possible design manoeuvres to execute well, it has a level 10 (of 10) level of difficulty. If your nook becomes…