Small and awkward space storage ideas

Most homes contain a surprising amount of unused volume, and almost all of it is in awkward shapes. The space under a sink is interrupted by plumbing. The space above kitchen cabinets is too high to reach. A sloped ceiling wastes the back half of a room. A corner cabinet swallows anything pushed into it.

Awkward space is cheap space. Nobody competes for it, no renovation is required to claim it, and the payoff is immediate. The catch is that off-the-shelf storage is designed for rectangles, so claiming these spaces means matching the fitting to the specific obstruction — which is exactly what the pages below work through.