‘I have far too much storage space’, said no-one ever.
Even if our bedroom is quite small, all of us need plenty of storage so it always looks neat and tidy. Most importantly, who doesn’t like to have easy access to any item, inside the bedroom and outside of it? Here are a few solutions that are simple enough to create, low in cost and some being DIY.
Floating shelves are a good storage solution, if what you want to place on is of a decorative concept, or you don’t mind it showing. You can get creative by adding big and smaller heights of items, small indoor plants, photo frames, as well as books at different levels and by color. They free up floor space and allow more natural light to come through the room without blocking a wall or any view. Also useful for unused corners. This works well for a desk and one could also add a ghost chair that will eventually minimize the optical sense.
If the bedroom is a large one or if you live in an open-plan studio apartment, a room divider in the form of a bookcase might be your perfect feature. Besides adding useful items on both sides (or the most visible one), it can further be a design statement by creating it with your favorite materials, always matching your space.
Here come my personal favorite ones: For super, maximized drawer-cupboard organizers, take a look at the following two examples.
Check the quantities you have for socks, ties, belts, scarves, underwear etc, just to see what size of divider boxes you need for each. You can draw a rough plan and give it to a carpenter. Otherwise, if you are a DIY lover, you can make yours alone even with thick cardboard and then ‘dress it up’ with any textile. If no time, you buy! By the end of this, you will have organized all of your drawers and cupboards, in which previously you used to throw your small togs altogether.
To place other small items inside, you can buy some hanging baskets. These could be added above your nightstand or inside your closet.
Now shoes are a girl’s best friend. Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life but you need to know where they can fit inside your room, especially if they are over and above the average amount. Look at this smart idea below. This rotating system clearly saves you from having several shelves inside the cupboards or elsewhere to place them on. Clever huh?
Hanging hanging! Dedicated to the women, especially, whose closets are usually full of suffocated clothes. Instead of having hundreds of hangers, two clever alternatives that are super space-savers would be the ‘S’- hooks and … believe it or not, the shower curtain rings. Hang your pants and jeans on ‘S’ – hooks to save space for the rest of your clothes .I love the lightweight tank tops in color coordination on shower curtain rings on just one strong hanger inside your closet.
Lighting! Just a discreet lightbulp above a side table nightstand instead of using 1/3 of it for a table lamp, we simply hang the bulp on a hook on the wall. Its cord can be as funky as we want, twisted and any colour. If you need stronger lighting for reading, you can just buy one in warm white at 40watts which is equivalent to 5500 lumens. Nowadays, we do prefer led lighting as it has a longer life duration (8 years). What this delicate idea gives beside the space saving from the nightstand, is small charming aesthetic right and left of the bed.
Clever and neat, you can maximize your storage by using a bed frame with drawers if it is possible under the bed and also add a bookshelf around it instead of a headboard.
Last but not least, check my other two favorite design structures created by FRAG. Simultaneously a coat stand and a storage shelf, the Bak valet stand is an exquisite and useful object to streamline space either in someone’s bedroom or at the entrance hall. The frame, to which a parallel rod for hangers is added, is made even more efficient, thanks to the round containers placed on the sides, as well as functional coin trays with padded leather on the bottom.
Inspired by the cobblestones of ancient Roman roads, shaped and polished by time and wear, the design of this vertical metal tube structure is super functional. Its different heights serves for two clothes stands and a valet tray, all stylistically linked by a leather finish. The clothes stands are formed from hand-finished tubing – straight for trousers and curved for coats and jackets – and a rounded-edge valet tray. Analogia Project have successfully combined functionality and looks in an attractive, decorative object for the private rooms in the home.
Thanks for reading.
Nicole Ioannides x
