Drinking Problem

We have a problem with our alcohol. No, it's not what you think. We don't drink enough of it. Or we don't drink enough of it based on the rate we buy it. Our liquor, a modest selection, has lived in our pantry closet since we bought this house. But thanks to maturing taste buds and a pandemic that led us to become our own fancy bartenders, we've accumulated more than we can fit. It's starting to become an issue of survival. I recently found myself asking: "Do we really need that rice cooker? I need to make space for these bottles."

We decided that the best solution would be to buy a liquor cabinet or something like that to store at least some of these, but exactly what to buy and where to put it is a challenge. We have filled up nearly all available space in our house for furniture, and it wouldn't really. make sense to move this far from the kitchen/dining area anyway.

This is pretty much the only wall available to us in the area. 

I really love our sideboard and the pictures above it, so we're trying to avoid adding a whole china cabinet-style thing here, or stacking something above the sideboard. That only leaves space on both sides (the small rolling open storage our instant pot lives on can definitely get moved out, especially if said cabinet solution offers some hidden storage for the water bottles and lunch boxes that live on the bottom shelves). The cat water fountain (yes, our cat only drinks from a fountain) could move to the other side of the sideboard, freeing up the corner on the left. And...that's pretty much it for space options.

So I've started exploring our options. As always, I started with IKEA and found I really liked this option, the BILLY/OXBERG:

Or the GODMORGON (I guess this technically is a bathroom cabinet but I think it could look good anywhere):

D is worried that these would look awkward right next to our sideboard, since the styles don't really match and the sideboard has elaborate scrolling and trim that wouldn't let us push this cabinet right up next to it. So he's thinking a corner cabinet might be better, so that we don't have to try to line them up together. Summon good old HEMNES:

This would take some work because we both agree we'd like a glass door to display the prettier bottles, along with maybe some lighting, like a much smaller version of this hack we found on the internet (if you haven't guess already this post is really just my "mood board" and an invitation for you to make suggestions):

I'm also not sure that the HEMNES could hold more than a few bottles, which makes it feel sort of pointless.

Then we departed from IKEA's choices to see what is out there. And oh boy things got expensive quickly. This cabinet, from a furniture company I've never heard of--Ballard Designs--immediately seemed like it was exactly what we wanted:

Over $1,000...great....Maybe I should get back to that $100 BILLY bookshelf and door.

Here's another random internet picture for what I think I want:

Now that we've seen it, D and I both think that a rounded front looks elegant and that having trim would help it blend more into the corner almost like it was part of the house (we've even talked about potentially painting something to match our walls so it looked more like a built-in).

We're not even close to a solution but I thought it would be fun to post this and see if anyone else has ideas. We need something that won't take up much room and offers some storage behind clear glass doors (because some of those bottles are really pretty) and some closed storage, but minimal open storage where things can get really dusty. It can't take up much space and ideally has to go next to the existing sideboard at the edge of our kitchen (either alongside it or caddy corner with it if it's a corner unit). If we can find the time, this is probably a good time to go antiquing...Leave a comment with your ideas (besides the obvious one to buy less liquor--we're too far gone for that one)!