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Room storage ideas
Storage ideas for the rooms you live in. Kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and living rooms.
The rooms you spend the most time in are the rooms that fill up fastest. A kitchen absorbs appliances, a bathroom absorbs bottles, a bedroom absorbs clothes, and a living room quietly absorbs everything else. These are the storage problems that reappear every single week, which is why they are worth solving properly rather than tidying repeatedly.
Every page below starts from the same place: what is actually in the room, how often you reach for it, and how much usable volume the room has left. Get those three things straight and the right storage solution is usually obvious. Get them wrong and you end up with handsome baskets full of things you never use.
3 guides in room storage
Bathroom8 min readBathroom storage ideas for a room with no spare wall
A bathroom is usually the smallest room in the house with the most small bottles in it. It is also the only room where getting the material wrong will destroy your storage within two years.
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Kitchen & Dining8 min readKitchen storage ideas: how I get more out of the cabinets you have
Most kitchens I look at do not need more cabinets. They need the ones they have divided properly, because a deep fixed shelf wastes about half the space it appears to offer.
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Bedroom7 min readSmall bedroom storage ideas that do not shrink the room
A small bedroom has to store a full wardrobe of clothes in a room mostly filled by a bed. The bed is also the answer.
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Other storage categories
Closets, Halls & Garages
The rooms that exist purely to store things. Closets, wardrobes, hallways, understairs, garages, sheds, lofts and basements.
3 guides
Outdoor & Garden
Weatherproof storage for gardens, patios, balconies and yards. Tools, bikes, firewood, cushions and bins.
1 guide
Home Types
Storage strategies that depend on the kind of home you have. Small houses, apartments, rentals, RVs, campers, vans and boats.
1 guide
Clothes & Personal Items
Storage for the things you wear and carry. Shoes, bags, coats, clothes, jewelry, makeup and toiletries.
1 guide
Hobbies & Sport
Storage for collections and kit. LEGO, toys, board games, books, vinyl, yarn, fabric and sports gear.
1 guide
Storage Furniture
Furniture that stores things. Storage beds, cupboards, shelving, benches, ottomans, trunks and carts.
1 guide