The way in the West they approach storage issues often looks interesting and inspiring. Found some new places and budget ideas to fit everything.
one Find extra space in the bathroom
The bathroom is not the most obvious place to store because of the small area. And yet we assure you, there is hidden potential. Use non-standard places: put additional baskets on the cistern or under the sink if you have it open. Use the space above the door to organize a shelf for storing textiles, and hang a couple of hooks or an organizer for the necessary small things on the shower door.
2 Hang another shelf
There is no extra shelf. Especially when it comes to rooms where you need to store a lot of accessories and small items. So they will all be in plain sight, and you do not have to rummage through deep cabinets. In addition, on the eve of the holidays, open shelves can be decorated: just put themed dishes in the kitchen, or add New Year’s decor in other rooms.
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3 Equip a place behind a bed or sofa
The sofa and bed take up almost half of the room in a small apartment. This is an unforgivable waste of useful meters. Storage can be arranged in the sofa itself, on the back wall, or make a shelf behind the back, thus forming a kind of niche. There you can put a lamp, a vase or a pot of flowers, bring chargers for phones from the socket to this shelf, put books, in a word, store a lot of necessary things!
four Put the baskets on the fridge
Surely you have an empty space above the refrigerator. It can and should be used. The most budgetary way is to put a couple of baskets or containers with the necessary things there. So you can store, for example, kitchen textiles or an additional set of serving utensils.
5 Equip a place under the stairs
If you live in a country house, you most likely have stairs. Do not leave the space under it empty, make open shelves there or just put boxes. You can hang curtains that will hide everything unnecessary from prying eyes. By the way, in the same way it is easy to use any free niche in the house.
6 Hang a pegboard over your desk
Business cards, notes, checks — all this often gathers dust in the corridor, creating pockets of garbage. This does not benefit the interior, and you cannot throw away important papers. Attach them to the pegboard. You can buy these at the store or make your own. The most convenient ones are cork, but you can hang any — depending on the material, you just have to choose how to fix the little thing. Hang a pegboard above your desk if you have one, or right in the hallway — the right little thing will always be at hand.
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7 Make open niches in the hallway
If there are wardrobes in the corridor, they are usually closed. Try the open bottom option and put the boxes there. It is convenient, you can fold accessories or off-season shoes. Another plus of such open storage is ease of cleaning. It is easy to get there, which means that dust will not accumulate.
eight Turn a window sill into a shelf
Another great open storage option that is not often used. There are window sills in every house, and sometimes two per room. You can decorate the window sill as a bookshelf or dressing table, put containers with accessories, a mirror. There will be no shortage of daylight.
If you have a small apartment, try to use everything, even non-traditional places, to equip shelves there, put another container or organizer. Speaking of organizers, it’s a good idea to use hanging ones — the door leaf often remains intact while other places form a blockage of things. And yet, do not forget about the disposal of unnecessary things: for example, many stores accept clothes for recycling, and in return you get a bonus for buying a new one.
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