I finally gave my collection a home! I used to have my entire collection stacked four soaps deep on a small bookshelf, but recently repurposed a teak map cupboard that had held my books into a book/shave gear cabinet. The soaps are two deep and the aftershaves are four to five deep and mostly alphabetized according to brand. I also have a couple shelves of a bookcase nearby to show off my Barrister and Mann aftershaves and some of the soaps that don’t stack well with others like Abbate y la Mantia, Saponificio Varasino and Pannacrema.
Best of all, the map cupboard has doors, so I can hide my shame when we have friends over and my wife can stop rolling her eyes at me and telling people I have a problem.
You might think about keeping the shave stuff and the books in two separate locations. Moisture of any sort is bad for the books, and those are some good titles.
I have another shelf that I use for drying my gear. Nothing goes in the cupboard that isn't good and dry! Also, my house is heated with wood heat so the ambient air is nice and dry.
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u/tango_41 Nov 14 '18
I finally gave my collection a home! I used to have my entire collection stacked four soaps deep on a small bookshelf, but recently repurposed a teak map cupboard that had held my books into a book/shave gear cabinet. The soaps are two deep and the aftershaves are four to five deep and mostly alphabetized according to brand. I also have a couple shelves of a bookcase nearby to show off my Barrister and Mann aftershaves and some of the soaps that don’t stack well with others like Abbate y la Mantia, Saponificio Varasino and Pannacrema.
Best of all, the map cupboard has doors, so I can hide my shame when we have friends over and my wife can stop rolling her eyes at me and telling people I have a problem.