When you live in a home for a while, or you just downsized, having an abundance of items can be overwhelming and knowing where to store all of these items can be equally frustrating.
Explained below are six tips to help you find storage space for all your items to help declutter your home.
Utilize Walls
Empty walls are a great area to hang coats, hats, and scarves. You can even build a small shelf or a series of shelves to store these and other items. This trick is best used on walls that are out of sight or in under-utilized rooms. Also, please make sure that building shelves is alright with your landlord before you install them if you’re renting the property.
Retractable Shelves
Slim, retractable shelving that can be installed in between appliances in your kitchen is a convenient way to store spices and utensils in your kitchen. In other areas of your home, it may be a viable way to store smaller household items like brooms or squeegees.
Underneath The Stairs
If you have stairs where the back side is accessible, why not use the area to store some items. Although this is an effective way of storing items, you may want to only place items under stairwells that are in a basement or in an area that is not commonly seen by guests.
Underneath Beds
If your bed is high enough, you can place items underneath the bed that are out of sight. You can put whatever you like underneath, but placing blankets, pillows, or other bedroom items underneath may be a more accessible storage area for these items.
Drawers
Installing drawers where there’s extra space to be utilized is a clever way of storing items. A carefully designed drawer installed on a bench or couch can be aesthetically pleasing and useful. Take a look around your home and see where a drawer could be easily installed.
Storage Bins
A sturdy storage cabinet or bin from Quantum Storage, can be just the thing you need to store many items without having containers spread out all over the house. A steel cabinet would work great for storing screws, nails, and larger tools. If you’re into crafts, organizing all your yarn, ribbon, and paint will be a breeze. These cabinets come in different sizes, too.
Organizing your home doesn’t have to be overly stressful. Throwing items away or giving them to a thrift store can be helpful when narrowing down the essentials. But when you still have too many things, remember the six helpful hints above.
Guest post written by Anita. Anita is a freelance writer from Denver, CO. She mostly writes about home and family, finance, and business. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys spending time with her family and reading a good book.
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Thanks for the tips! I know underneath my bed needs to get cleaned for sure :/
Great tips! Clutter has always been a part of my life with 6 kids but when we moved in the summer I rented a dumpster and got rid of it ALL. felt great!
Oh I would LOVE to do that!
This is such great advice! Now I just need to follow it. We’re always busting at the seams with stuff.
I remember when we had a smaller place it was hard to think outside the box for storage ideas!! These all sound like perfect solutions to a lack of space!
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These are great tips! I have bins that I store toys under my sons beds – out of sight and keeping the room organized.
I do that too! Great space saver.
We have tons and tons of storage bins all over the place. I’d love a bigger house but it’s not an option so I deal with the bins.
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Such a great and awesome tips. Thank you for sharing! I like this post.
Great tips! We live in a tiny apartment so clutter isn’t a horrible issue here but we had to find unique places for storage!
I use so many storage bins around my house. Laundry baskets work great for kids’ toys. I also get rid of stuff that I no longer use.
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I am in the process of trying to de-clutter. Am still trying to get all those clothes that no longer fit (too big) out of my closet and drawers and to a recycle bin!! Talk procrastinate–gotta get to this and make some room!!
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I hate clutter! Loving any idea to rid my home of it 🙂
These are really nice tips for storing things efficiently! Having retractable shelves is great because you can hide items you don’t necessarily want on display. Awesome suggestions! Thanks so much for sharing!
We recently started using the space behind the stairs to keep stuff that we usually dont use, leaves us with so much space in the bedroom to store important daily use stuff
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Organization makes me so happy haha I do some of these things in my own home and it helps so much in creating a good, productive living environment. Thanks for sharing.