Best Creative Storage Ideas for the Home

Tips, Hacks, Ideas

Each week we're picking a topic and asking you, our community for your best tips, hacks and ideas. Earlier this week we asked for your best storage solutions for the home and boy did you deliver!

The most common answer that came through was “HAVE LESS STUFF” which really is the best advice!

I’m actually so excited to “Marie Kondo” the sh*t outta our home when we move and only take the essentials with us to the new house.

For those of you who don't already know we’re currently designing our first family home and thinking about creative and functional ways to make the most of each room! We're designing and building all of the joinery ourselves and the idea of everything having it's special place is really doing it for me...

Thanks for playing, tune in next Monday on our stories for the next prompt.

Kitchen

• Keep glasses and mugs stored near the dishwasher for speedy restocking

• Shallow drawers / shelves for stacking food

• Keep cooking utensils / cooking oils near the stove

• Designated space for bread so it doesn’t live on the counter

• Oven with a storage drawer in the bottom for baking trays

• Consider bookshelves in the kitchen for cookbooks

  Slide-out shelf for kettle & toaster

• Integrated drawer bins for general, glass, recycling and green waste
  

Bathroom

• Face-height shallow storage for products and medications

• Cupboard / trunk for storing kids bath toys away

• Designated space for storing clean towels and hand towels

• Integrated washing baskets

• Hooks on the wall for extra hanging

• Shallow drawers and dividers in the vanity

• Small shower shelf to encourage less stuff!

Bedroom

• Designated place to store extra bed linen

• Built in drawers for kids toys

• Design wardrobes to ceiling height to maximise space

• Utalise space above walkway doors

• Beds with storage

• For those who like to Netflix n' chill - discreet screen placement

• Side tables with drawers and holes to conceal charging cords

• Organise your wardrobe to suit your type of clothing.

• Drawer organisers for socks, underwear, jewellery etc.

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