One of the biggest complaints of homeowners is that they don’t have enough closets, and the closets they do have are just open cavities that seem to have been built as an afterthought. These empty chambers usually have just a clothing bar and one upper shelf. If you need to store anything other than clothes or coats, that closet isn’t doing you a lot of good.
If you really want to make use of your closet space, you’ll need to spruce it up a bit (or maybe a lot). Here are a few ways you could do that. Continue reading “Converting Closet Space into Useable Storage”
Regardless of why you have decided to remodel your bathroom, it is a great time to design the room in a way that makes the most sense for you. Not only does a bathroom remodel give you a chance to get the aesthetic and theme you want, it also gives you an opportunity to customize how your bathroom is organized, unique to you and your family. Here are some ideas.
If you are lucky enough to have a mudroom in your home, you have an opportunity to keep your home clean and organized. Often, the messiest part of the house is the entry point. Mail piles up, shoes clutter the doorway, and jackets get tossed to the side wherever they may land. If you have a mud room, you can make that the main entry point for your family and close friends, keeping the mess contained.
Everyone hopes for an organized closet—a place for everything and everything in its place. Unfortunately, there are a lot of small items that never seem to have a place in a traditional closet. Here are a few of the items that cause the most frustration.
If you lead a very active lifestyle, chances are you have a lot of sporting goods. Sporting goods are one of the most difficult things to store out of the way in an organized manner. Balls roll, poles and bats fall to the side, and protection gear doesn’t fit well on a standard closet shelf. The end result is that if you have traditionally built closets, all of your sporting goods end up in the bottom of a closet completely disorganized. If you want to avoid those closets that have things spilling out of them, you’ll need some custom closet solutions.
When you have a crawling infant that is pulling themselves up on furniture and seemingly getting into everything, you want to do everything you can to keep them safe as they explore their tiny world. Baby proofing your home can seem like a huge chore, but it is most definitely an important one. In order to keep your home baby friendly, you’ll need to be able to keep certain things out of reach. Closet solutions can help you do just that.
Does your home always seem to be cluttered? Can you just not seem to get every room in the house cleaned at once because things are getting moved from room to room as you clean? These are clear signs that you do not have the right storage solutions for your lifestyle. The primary goal of any storage solution is to have a place for everything and everything in its place.
One of the most challenging parts of being a parent of school-age children is keeping them organized. Children have school clothes, play clothes, Sunday-best clothes, several pairs of shoes, underclothes, pajamas, toys, games, cards, art supplies, school supplies, and a myriad of other things depending on your child’s interests. Sometimes it can seem as though your home is dedicated as a storage spot for your child’s belongings.
When you build your own home, you have the unique position of being able to design your new home with whatever features you like. There are a number of considerations you should make in the design of your home, but one of the things that many people overlook is their storage spaces. Often the biggest complaint that people have when they move into a new home is a lack of storage space, but you are in a position to make sure that you have all you need. Here are three storage tips to consider when designing your home.
Especially if you have a small space or a large family, finding storage solutions that keep your home clean and organized can be a chore. Yet you may have more space in your home than you think. There are often dead spaces in our homes that don’t seem like enough to worry about, but it all adds up to missed storage opportunities. Here are some examples of dead space that you can turn into organized storage.