As every homeowner knows, storage space is precious, especially if your home is on the smaller side! Are all your closets and cabinets filled to overflowing? We’ve got some smart storage hacks that can make the best use of every inch of available space in and around your home. So take a little tour of each room, and check out which of these clever ideas you can make your own.
1. Use the inside of closet doors
The back of your closet doors offers valuable storage opportunities that are often overlooked! Use this space to hang shoe pocket holders on hooks, or fit a simple rail that can hold your scarves, belts or ties. You can even install slim wire racks for make-up, lotions and perfumes, and hair accessories.
2. Mirror Cabinets
The space behind the mirror is often overlooked. Create a slim storage cabinet with mirrored shutters for bath accessories; bottles of shampoo need just 4 inches of cabinet depth. Use push-to-open hinges to avoid handles, and install a small magnet so that the doors stay closed.
3. Wicker Baskets
A pretty wicker basket with a lid can find a place anywhere in your home. Wicker baskets are great storage accessories that can be used for organizing anything and everything; right from newspapers and magazines to laundry, linen and cushions.
4. Wire Baskets
Wire storage baskets come in all shapes and sizes and can be hung below shelves or simply stacked on top of them. Use them inside drawers or hang them on the wall. Stylish and easy to clean, they offer practical and versatile storage solutions that can be used in every room.
5. Drawer Organizers
By fitting organizers and dividers inside your drawers, you can create contained zones that hold items in place and ensure that no space is wasted. Use them in your kitchen, wardrobes and work desk for beautifully organised, immaculate storage drawers.
6. Folding Solutions
Marie Kondo, the queen of tidying up, offers very specific guidelines on the right way to fold clothes. Watch this video to appreciate how tidy your drawers will look, once you have perfected the art of folding clothes the KonMari way! Once folded, stand them upright instead of stacking them up.
7. Towel Storage
Store your towels in style, with this chic vertical towel rack that frees up shelf space in your bathroom! We also love the vintage-style hook for bathrobes on the wall next to the mirror.
8. Ladder Storage
You can’t go wrong with this trendy ladder-style storage rack that holds towels, tissue rolls and bath accessories! Use small wicker baskets to corral tubes of cream and bottles of lotion.
9. Shoe Organisers
If your shoes are always in a jumbled mess, it’s time to store them neatly in drawers that are fitted with separators. Keeping your footwear organized can help to make your Monday mornings a lot easier!
10. Coat Hooks
You can never have too many hooks! Use hooks on any available wall space, on the inside or doors or inside wardrobes to organise not just coats, but caps, bags, scarves, umbrellas and anything else you can think of.
11. Jewellery Drawers
Looking to organise your baubles and trinkets? A tiny set of drawers that can sit on your dressing table could be just what you need!
12. Below the Stairs
With some ingenuity, the space below the stairs can be converted into the perfect storage for shoes, books, or all the other odds and ends that you need to tuck away. You can even create a home office here, if space permits.
13. Staircase Riser
We love the way this designer has gone a step ahead and created nifty storage drawers in the riser of the stairs, too! As concealed as it can get, yet functional to the core.
15. Storage Above the Bed
If you love to read in bed, a ledge above the headboard of your bed can house all the books you are currently reading. Incorporating some storage within the headboard itself is also a good idea.
16. Storage Around the Bed
This is a lovely, practical solution that helps to eke out every bit of available storage from a tiny bedroom. The bed sits snugly within the ample storage shelves that are created all around and above, with open and closed shelves for books, clothes and creative accessories.
17. Storage Below the Bed
This bed houses deep lift-up storage that’s right underneath the centre of the bed, as well as storage for books, pillows or bed linen on all three sides below. Use the lift-up storage space for lesser-used clothes, extra mattresses and seasonal items.
18. Hidey Hole
Keep your valuables safe in this secret niche in the wall, hidden from sight by the picture in front of it. This is a great place to stash some extra cash or small pieces of jewellery for an emergency.
19. Secret Stash
Another ingenious hiding place for some cash! No one will ever guess that the top of this wooden log comes right off, allowing you to store valuables in the hollowed-out space within.
20. Hidden Book Storage
One of the books in your bookcase can be hollowed out using a sharp knife, creating just enough secret storage for some banknotes! Pick up an old hardbound book, and leave about an inch on all sides so that your valuables are safe.
21. Sliding Panel
If you have six inches of space to either side of your cooking range, dishwasher or washing machine, you can create slender sliding drawers that are the perfect place to storage detergent bottles, cleaning supplies or canisters of oil and condiments.
22. Tall Panel
A tall panel next to the fridge can slide right out to hold slim trays, baking dishes and ovenware. Use push-to-open hinges so that you can dispense with the need for handles.
23. Window Seat Storage
Window seats offer extra seating space when you need it, and can even be used as an extra bed at night. Add extra function with some hidden storage drawers that are fitted into the base of your wooden seat.
We hope these creative space-saving solutions have helped you to create enough and more storage in your home. Would you like to try one, two or more of these storage ideas? Let us know in the comments below. And if you’d like more décor ideas that will make your life easier, do connect with the HomeLane team!
