Storage Porn: Beautiful Solutions For Small Living Spaces

If your drawers are overflowing with STUFF, you don't know where anything is and your 'just in case' items are threatening to take over your room/flat/house, it's time to get savvy with your storage solutions.

And here's a great place to start.

1. UNDERWEAR DRAWER STORAGE

If your underwear drawer is a scramble of pants, tights, socks all mixed with tampons that have lost their box, you need diamond-shaped dividers.

But for the truly craftular, you don't ahve to buy them, just use cardboard to create your own. GENIUS.

Hint: Next time you order a box of wine, take the carboard slats used to keep the bottles from knocking against each other.

2. HIDE YOUR JEWELLERY BEHIND A PICTURE

Everyone loves a secret hidey-hole and if your jewellery is taking over all your dressing table space and then some, it's time to hoik it up high and hidden away behind the false front of a picture. Also good for hiding it away from theives.

4. DOUBLE THAT CLOSET SPACE

Using just a humble ring pull, you can add an extra hanger to every, er, hanger in your wardrobe to double its capacity. And you can still see what all your clothes look like. Forget that closet clear-out you've been putting off - there is NO NEED. Hoard everything.

5.BRAS ON SHOW

If you can never find that white bra when you're wearing a white tshirt, or the black one that means you can get away with those sheer black tops at work, then fear not. Now, they can all be displayed for instant access, whatever you're wearing.

6. TRIANGULISE PLASTIC BAGS

Stuffing a plastic bag into another plastic bag before shoving them into your canvas shopping bag and chucking the whole thing the kitchen cupboard is not a storage solution we like.

Instead, fold them into neat triangles and keep them in an easy-access cardboard box. Phew. It's soothing just looking at them isn't it?

7. AN ORDERED CUPBOARD UNDER THE STAIRS

If your under-stairs storage area has turned into a free-for-all it's time to get serious with storage. You might need to get these especially fitted professionally if your DIY isn't up to much, but for this dream, it'd be worth it.

8. INTRODUCE ORDER TO YOUR PETS

Forever tripping over the pets' bowls? A neat trick for keeping them tidy and out of the way when they're not in use - which might stop Felix crying around them all day too - is to put them inside the bottom drawer of a chest. You'd never even know you had pets. Which is what you can tell your landlord...

9. FLOATING BOOKS

Is it a book, a shelf or a bookshelf? Or all of the above? These nifty designs look neat on your wall and mean no extra space is taken up with the shelving itself.

10. MULTI-PURPOSE STAIRS

Forget just having a cupboard under the sairs, why not turn each and every stair into a useful drawer to keep the things that usually clutter up said stairs. Just beautiful.

11. WHERE TO KEEP YOUR WINE

The best ever storage solution? Now, we just have to create a wine collection as impressive as this one...

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