Converting Closet Space into Useable Storage

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”

Organizational Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

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.

Recessed Built-In Shelving

You can really never have enough shelves in a bathroom. The biggest complaint most people have about their bathroom is that it doesn’t have enough storage space. Or if it does have storage space, it is very compact and not easily organized. Continue reading “Organizational Bathroom Remodeling Ideas”

Must Have Storage for Your Mudroom

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.

If you want to really keep everything organized, you’re going to need a good storage system for items that will commonly be in the room. If you don’t have good cabinets, shelves, or cubbies in your mudroom, that is something you will want to address quickly. Here are some must-have storage spaces you need. Continue reading “Must Have Storage for Your Mudroom”

Three Common Closet Items That Always Seem to Be Without a Place

Closet JobsEveryone 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.

Ties and Scarves

The only way to store ties and scarves in a traditional closet is to hang them on a hanger or on the clothing rod itself. If you hang them on a hanger, they can easily become wrinkled when pushed together with other items. If you hang them on the clothing rod, you risk knocking them off every time you get in your closet.

Shoes

If you only have a few pairs of shoes, you probably have ample room on the floor of your traditional closet to store them. But if you have different shoes for different occasions and outfits, you might need some additional space to store your shoes. Some people store shoes in their boxes in the bottom or top shelf of the closet, but then it becomes a chore to find the right pair of shoes on the right day. Continue reading “Three Common Closet Items That Always Seem to Be Without a Place”

The Best Storage Solutions for Sporting Goods

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.

Ball Storage

Whether you are storing basketballs, baseballs, softballs, soccer balls, footballs, tennis balls, or golf balls, you need reliable storage that won’t have them rolling all over the place. The best ball storage is a large pull out drawer in the bottom of a closet. With a large enough drawer, you can store a number of balls of varying shapes and sizes in a way that will be easy to find without them rolling when you get into the closet for something else. Continue reading “The Best Storage Solutions for Sporting Goods”

Baby Safety Month: How Closet Solutions Help Baby Proof Your Home

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.

Choking Hazards

You might be surprised at the things that pose a choking hazard to infants and young children. Not only do you need to keep small objects out of reach, you also need to keep items with a chain or string away from children. Anything that could be accidentally swallowed in whole or in part should be kept put away where the child cannot reach. Choking is the fourth leading cause of death in children under the age of five. Don’t let your child be a statistic, but use custom closet solutions such as built in drawers to hold small items. Continue reading “Baby Safety Month: How Closet Solutions Help Baby Proof Your Home”

How Unique Customized Storage Solutions Can Transform Your Home

Closet JobsDoes 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.

Closet Storage Solutions

Most closets in homes are not built to be space efficient. Most have a clothing rod, maybe a shelf or two, and a lot of open space that is not great for much of anything. You don’t have to deal with this waste of space. Storage solutions can be designed to meet your needs and customized to fit into any closet. If you have a room that needs a closet, we can design the perfect closet according to your specifications. Continue reading “How Unique Customized Storage Solutions Can Transform Your Home”

Storage Solutions for School-Age Children

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.

Luckily, there are a lot of storage solutions that can be designed specifically for school-aged children. One of the challenges to storage solutions for children is that their needs change rapidly. To combat this problem, it is best to find storage solutions that can easily be adjusted as your child grows. Adjustable or removable shelves and clothing rods can go a long way toward keeping your child organized until they are ready to go out into the world on their own. Continue reading “Storage Solutions for School-Age Children”

Three Storage Tips to Consider When Building Your Home

Cabinet JobsWhen 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.

Make Storage Adaptable

Chances are that the storage needs you have now will change over time. If you have small children, their closets will need to be able to adapt as their clothing gets bigger. If you have adult children, you will want to be able to convert your storage spaces to new uses when they go to college or move out. Our closet and storage solutions can be made to easily convert to additional uses as your needs change. Continue reading “Three Storage Tips to Consider When Building Your Home”

Make Use of Dead Space with Unique Storage Solutions

Cabinet JobsEspecially 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.

Corners

In almost every room you will have at least one corner that is unoccupied by furnishings or decorations and has no practical use. Even the smallest of corner spaces can be easily turned into customized storage solutions. You can have a small closet installed in larger corner spaces. In smaller spaces, you can have shelving systems installed. These can be used for craft supplies, toys, board games, video game systems and games, DVDs, music, stereo systems, or any number of other uses. Continue reading “Make Use of Dead Space with Unique Storage Solutions”