A lack of square footage doesn’t have to limit storage capabilities. Artycon’s interior design team, the best in Toronto, can provide you with innovative storage ideas built into your new home renovation for homes with limited floor space or minimal storage areas. Continue reading to discover small space storage solutions designed by expert interior designers.
Add More Shelving
Increase storage for small spaces using various forms of shelving. Walls surround every room of your house, often remaining bare when they have so much storage room potential. Shelving is a great space-saving hack that doesn’t take up any floor space.
There are countless options to consider when it comes to shelving. You can arrange them horizontally or vertically, add decorative elements, or use bins to organize items on the shelves. Install shelving in living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or throughout the halls.
Create Hidden Storage
Have you ever dreamed of having a secret room behind a bookcase? Well, hidden storage can make that dream come. This space saving hack creates storage for small spaces in or behind furniture and walls. Examples of built-in storage include wall niches, storage platforms, and drawers or cabinets that are integrated into walls, kitchen islands, or even flooring.
Here are a few hidden storage ideas for small spaces:
Extend Kitchen Countertops
Extending your kitchen countertops can alleviate cramped spaces. These extensions not only offer more underneath cabinet space but also provide you with more surface storage. Countertops are a good place for storing appliances, cookware, spices, and other cooking accessories.
Take advantage of countertop organizers, trays, canisters, and baskets for additional countertop storage. Under the countertops, you have more room for silverware, pots and pans, and dry goods.
Make Use of Stairs
Stairs have both interior and exterior storage capabilities. The steps of the stairs can be transformed into drawers, making the perfect storage spot for shoes. In the inside the stairwell has the potential to be turned in a closet space, cupboard, or a series of drawers.
The outside of the stairwell can be equipped with hooks or with shelving. The size and location of your staircase will determine which storage option is are best. For example, if your stairs are beside a narrow hallway, vertical storage ideas, such as floating shelves, functions better than drawers.
Convert Backsplash into Storage
Kitchen backsplash is extremely versatile in terms of finding storage for small spaces. From racks and hooks to niches and hidden storage panels, these options provide space for all your kitchen essentials. Use racks to hang stemware, hangers for dish towels, shelves for cookbooks, or hooks for baking accessories. Whether you decide to cover the whole backsplash or only a portion will depend on personal preferences, kitchen style, and backsplash height.
Here are a few additional small space storage solutions for your kitchen backsplash:
Use Over-the-Door Space
The area your above doors is often overlooked but is a great place for storage. Space saving shelves, wire baskets, and cabinets are a few examples of how you can utilize the space. Over-the-door storage solutions are suitable for nearly every type of door, including front, bedroom, and closet doors.
Over-the-door storage ideas are ideal for smaller homes or rooms with little floor space. Store items such as books, toiletries, and decorative items over doors. Hooks and hanging organizers can also go over the top or on the back of doors.
Modify Cabinets
Your existing kitchen, bathroom, and hall cabinets can be modified for enhanced organization. Installing lazy Susans can increase functionality and efficiency, as everything you need is at your fingertips with a simple spin.
While some cabinets may appear large, they can lack sufficient space, you can rectify this issue by adding interior shelves, or mounting racks and hooks inside cabinet doors. Hooks can also be installed on the cabinet ceiling for hanging organizers and baskets. Another space saving solution for your cabinets is glide-out shelving.
Use Every Nook
Nooks can be frustrating as they don’t offer substantial room for furniture and detract from livable square footage. However, with a few space saving shelves, cabinets, or hidden storage ideas, a nook can become a fantastic storage area. Vertical shelving in a nook is perfect for organizing kitchenware, while a narrow cabinet can hold bathroom towels or products.
Larger nooks can even be transformed into excellent reading nooks with book shelves and ottomans or benches with hidden storage. Smaller nooks with peg boards, cubbies, baskets, or hooks can also store apparel, jewellery, or outdoor accessories, such as umbrellas.
Multi-Purpose Furniture
There are a variety of furniture pieces that provide storage in addition to other serving other purposes, such as seating or dining. Multi-functional and adaptable furniture can be equipped with wheels to improve its mobility and versatility. For instance, a portable kitchen island may double as a portable dining table or office desk.
Here is a list of storage furniture for small spaces:
Vertical Space is Key
Horizontal storage isn’t always available or ideal in homes with minimal square footage. Without a lot of storage options, surfaces such as desks and countertops can become cluttered. Vertical storage can be attached to the wall or hang from the ceiling, opening up more room on the floors. These space saving solutions work every room with open walls including home offices, living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms.
Vertical storage for small spaces includes:
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