Home Storage Ideas

Home Storage can be a huge problem. It seems that your home is never big enough to store all the stuff you have.

You can help the situation by checking out my article on clutter but I realize everyone needs some ideas and methods to properly store the things they need and want to keep.

The way I think about home storage is to visualize how I can most easily put the item back to its storage position when I am done with it. I want to be able to easily put it back with the least effort for me. Food storage containers are very handy for storing leftovers and cleaning up the kitchen after a meal as long as you can find both the container and the lid when you need it.

Closets are the best places to store a lot of stuff. Modern houses and apartments normally have big, generous closets with some sort of a closet system. Old houses, not so much.

Cabinets are found in the kitchen, bathroom, basements, garage and even in other parts of the house if you're lucky. Having cabinets in every room is really a great way to hold everything you own.

Filing cabinets really are the best way to hold papers. Any other method usually just wastes space.

Binders that you keep on shelves work great for papers you want to refer to, projects you are currently working on and for scrapbooks. They don't work well at all for reference material you only use occasionally, because they take up too much space.

Shelves can work fine in limited circumstances. They are best used for large items, or for boxes or bins. Unless the shelves are in the basement or garage, they are usually unsightly. The only exception is for books and collections. The shelves work fine for these things.

It is best to store the things you use in each room in the room it will be used in or in the closest storage area to the room.

If you have to store the item a long way from where it is used it is a problem.

It will be too inconvenient to use the item, so it will never be used and you will just be storing it for nothing.

Or it means you have too many things for the room and need to reduce the volume of stuff.

Or it means that you will have to do a lot of extra work every time you need to use the item.

Another way to get ideas for solutions to your home storage problems is to study your favorite local store. The best stores always seem to be the best organized. It is easy to walk around in, easy to find what you are looking for and easy to pay and leave. They even tend to have better parking lots.

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