Here is how I made my shave den that fits right on the top of the toilet tank. First, a box the right dimensions (ruler added for scale) Next cut the box down for what will be a pleasing profile Then add a brick for heft and mass to ensure it doesn’t go anywhere once it is in place. Importantly, this provides a great shelf for den items! Lift it up and insert (conveniently) into a pillow case - shhhh, don’t tell SWMBO!! Then trial fit the items. Toilet tank BEFORE: Toilet tank following beautification project: For those who may wonder here is a tour from left to right: Two vintage talcum tins Watkins and Beamans full of Clubman talc. Behind them is Casswell and Massey talc then Dominica bay rum and St. Lucia bay rum (STRICTLY research) one of my favorite vintage glass bottles nearly empty of Clubman and in front a full vintage Colgate shave talc tin. Musco Real, Bigelow and Trumper are my shave creams in front. The razors are left to right, a Segal, my birthday Fat Boy and Merkur Slant in the mortar bowl. Just behind the bowl is a bit left of the Speick shave cream. Up on top of the brick are left to right a razor / brush holder with a boar brush hanging upside down and my Dovo Shavette inserted vertically behind it. Next is my Butterscotch Badger Finest and then a Lucite Finest restore (thanks Rudy). In the corner is my Aristocrat taking a bath (carefully padded with paper towel inside) and in front a Henckels straight edge.
Simple and functional... I store some of my items on the toilet tank already, seeing as it's next to my tiny sink area, this looks like a good way to make room for everything.
As long as you don't use the water below that display, you're okay. I may have to tell my wife she needs to find another place to set the air freshener and that I need one of her blue pillow cases.
thanks for the photo, If i get to the stage when my RAD is over I will think about do something similar maybe permanent. I was thinking about getting two more razors a large straight, and a slant, and one more soap Martin De Candre and then thats me done, (well rubish!!!!) went on ebay bought a razor its not a straight or a slant but it was sooo shiny Nice set-up some great products there
ahoy captain. i see the b&b finest and then the lucite rebuild glaring from the upper balcony. looks like a nice collection and i'm wondering how your research went with the bay rum's in the back row? thanks for sharing
