Locate Extra Storage Space In Your Room Without Renovating It

If you live in, say, a one-room apartment or in a school dormitory, storage room for the articles you think you need is very limited. You do not wish to clutter the room, but you refuse to live without those articles and contrivances of everyday living. The problem is worse if the wall storage units and the built in cabinet are already full and you still need more storage room. With some ingenuity on your part, you can create space or make use of unusual places for storage.

Beneath the bed: Normally this space is used to locate the shoes and other loose small items for quick retrieval on demand, but if you think about it much space is wasted here. Over the shoes and right under the bed is some unutilized room. By making a chest of drawers that fits under the bed, you can use this valuable space the best way. In fact, it will help you more if you make a bigger chest, even if you have to elevate the bed several inches to a foot just to contain the bigger box. In it you can store your extra bed articles as well as your shoes, shoeshine items, slippers and socks.

Over the bed: You just in reality need room enough for you to sit on the bed when getting up, so over that line space is mostly unused if it is not a two-tier bunk bed. Therefore if a similar box of drawers on legs can be placed there, you acquire much additional space. Of course it may make you feel a little tight, but you get inured to it after a time.

Within the cabinets: You would think that cabinet space are fully employed, but in fact, a good amount of space always remains between the dividers and the height of the stored articles. By fitting in small carton, plastic or wood boxes, you can use those spaces to keep your tiny items such as phone chargers, pocketbooks, cuff links, ribbons, spare buttons, sewing kits and plenty of other things. You can pull out the boxes to add more items instead of allowing them to clutter the room. The concept is to use that usually wasted space inside the cabinets.

Room corners: Buy or build racks intended for room wall corners and you would be happy to realize just how many items you can put there to reduce room clutter without limiting human movement passages.

Over the tank: Many are using this room above the water tank for racks and shelves to store bath articles. The racks are commonly wire covered with plastic to reduce oxidation in the ever-humid environment, or there are all-plastic items you can buy. Attach the racks via suction cups to the tiles if you do not wish to mar the tiles.

A precaution: However, overdoing the storage concept may make your apartment look like a bodega, so be selective and prudent. If you can, study the ancient Japanese ways of making their tiny rooms excellently neat and simple by storing articles in unnoticed cabinets and ornamental boxes. It will help you greatly.