If you feel like you don’t have enough space in your home and are about to throw in the towel and let things be, don’t give up just yet. We’re pretty sure that we’re about to fix that problem with these space-saving tips!Most people assume that they need more space in their houses when the solution is often staring them in the face.
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SPACE-SAVING TIPS TO CREATE MORE SPACE
If you can get a bit creative, you can open up more space in the home. The following are some clever space-saving tips that will help you reclaim more ground in the home and open up new spaces you never thought of.
Install Sliding Drawers Inside Your Cabinets and Cupboards
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Take a look at your kitchen cabinets and see if there are drawers inside them. If there are no drawers there now, then consider installing new drawers there.
Most kitchen cabinets can easily take two or more sliding drawers –also depends on the size of the drawers.
These drawers can house many small or medium-sized kitchen items that are on the countertop, on top of the sink, or the floor. This not only creates more room in the kitchen, but it also makes it look cleaner and tidier.
Install Wall Lamps
Also called wall sconces, these space-saving lamps can replace your table and wall lamps in the bedroom or living room.
Thanks to their contemporary designs, they can upgrade your room’s looks, making them look refined and sophisticated. You can either use your newly recovered space or leave it as is to create a roomier feeling.
Think About Installing Tray Tables
But instead of just regular tray tables, install the pullout ones. These are an amazing way to recover a ton of space within the home. Tables take up a considerable portion of floor space.
Pullout tray tables are super-convenient and can be easily pushed back into their slots when you’re done. Most of them are pretty sturdy and will comfortably carry a few books and laptops. Just remember not to lean on them too hard.
Use Bunk Beds in the Bedrooms
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Beds are usually the single biggest piece of furniture in the bedroom. If you have kids, you can choose to build or buy bunk beds for them instead of separate ground floor beds that take up all the space.
This way, you can easily create more room in the bedroom. Just makes sure that the beds are pretty solid and made from good wood. The sturdy and strong bunk beds at Cuckooland are great for this purpose. Just make sure the bedframe is made from strong wood that will be able to carry the weight of the occupants.
Go Vertical
This is one of my favorite space-saving tips! Some items can work just as well when they’re placed on the walls. For example, pots, pans, and cooking cutleries can be hanged on walls. This frees up a lot of space in the kitchen. Plus, if you have nice-looking cookware, you can show it off when you mount them on the wall.
The same vertical principle applies to your bathrooms, bedrooms and even living room. For instance, instead of having a TV stand which can take up a lot of space, simply hang your TV on the wall. Not only does that save you some space, it’ll also save you the extra money that you’d have splurged on the TV stand.
The same applies to home entertainment appliances such as soundbars. You can create a small platform directly underneath the wall-mounted TV and place it there along with the woofer.
Consider Buying Fold-Out Furniture
There are new table designs that allow for tables to “collapsed” back in or “folded” into themselves. These tables often have compartments that allow them to take up to three times their lengths.
If you can’t afford that, you can get a simple foldable table that you unfold whenever you want to use it. And when you’re done, you can easily fold and put it away –usually against the wall, under the staircase of somewhere.
Space-Saving Under Your Staircase
Speaking of staircases, if there’s some space there, you can turn that space into a small closet or something similar. People have been known to use that space as a broom closet, when it can work well as a wine cellar, a home office –depends on how small it is though– or a study.
Final Thoughts
There are lots of ways to save some space in the home, thus freeing up your home and making it less cluttered. For instance, instead of wardrobes, you can install a single folding hanger rod on the wall. This will free up the space that was occupied by the wardrobe.
We hope that even if you don’t follow these exact space-saving tips, you’ll still be able to creatively come up with ideas that work for your unique situation.