Places To Find Additional Storage Space
If you reside in, say, a studio apartment or in a college dormitory, storage space for the articles you think you need is very limited. You do not want to clutter the room, but you refuse to live lacking those things and conveniences of everyday living. The problem is more severe if the wall storage units and the built in cabinet are already filled and you still need more storage space. With some ingenuity on your part, you can create space or utilize unusual places for storage.
Under the bed: Normally this space is used to locate the shoes and other free small items for quick retrieval on demand, but if you consider it much space is wasted here. Above the shoes and immediately under the bed is some unutilized space. By placing a box that fits under the bed, you can use this precious space optimally. In fact, it will help you more if you use a bigger chest, even if you need to raise the bed several inches to a foot just to accommodate the larger box. In it you can stow your extra bed articles as well as your shoes, shoe brush and wax, slippers and socks.
Above 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 like box of drawers supported by legs can be placed there, you gain much extra space. Naturally it may make you feel somewhat tight, but you get inured to it after a time.
Within the cabinets: You might think that cabinet space are fully used, but actually, a good amount of space always exists between the shelves and the top of the stored articles. By putting in small carton, plastic or wood boxes, you could use those spaces to hold your small items such as phone chargers, pocketbooks, tiepins, ribbons, spare buttons, sewing kits and plenty of other things. You can pull out the boxes to keep more items in lieu of leaving them to litter the room. The concept is to use that usually wasted space inside the cabinets.
Room corners: Buy or build racks designed for room wall corners and you will be happy to realize just how many things you can put there to lessen room clutter without limiting human movement passages.
Over the tank: People are using this space above the water tank for racks and shelves to place bath articles. The racks are usually wire covered with plastic to lessen corrosion in the ever-humid location, or there are all-plastic items you can buy. Secure the racks via suction cups to the tiles if you do not wish to damage the tiles.
A caveat: However, overdoing the storage concept may make your room look like a bodega, so be discriminating and prudent. If you could, study the ancient Japanese ways of making their small rooms excellently neat and simple by storing articles in unnoticed cabinets and decorative boxes. It will help you tremendously.
