If you reside in, say, a studio apartment or in a college dormitory, storage room for the items you believe you require is at a premium. You do not want to clutter the room, yet you cannot live lacking those articles and contrivances of everyday living. The headache is worse when the wall storage units and the built in cabinet are already full and you still require additional storage room. With some resourcefulness on your part, you can create space or make use of unlikely places for storage.

Beneath the bed: Normally this space is used to place the shoes and other loose small items for quick retrieval on demand, but if you consider it much space is wasted here. Over the shoes and immediately under the bed is much unutilized room. By placing a chest of drawers that fits beneath the bed, you can use this precious space the best way. In truth, it will help you more if you use a bigger chest, even if you need to raise the bed a few inches to a foot just to accommodate the larger box. In it you can stow your extra bed linen as well as your shoes, shoe brush and wax, slippers and socks.

Over the bed: You just actually require room enough for you to sit on the bed when getting up, so over that line space is mostly unused if it is not a two-tier bunk bed. Therefore if a like box of drawers on legs can be placed there, you gain much additional space. Naturally it may make you feel somewhat cramped, but you get inured to it after a while.

Within the cabinets: You would believe that cabinet interiors are fully used, but in fact, a good amount of space always exists between the dividers and the top of the stored items. By fitting in small carton, plastic or wood boxes, you could use those spaces to hold your small items such as phone chargers, pocketbooks, tiepins, ribbons, spare buttons, sewing kits and myriad other things. You may pull out the boxes to add more items in lieu of leaving them to clutter the room. The concept is to utilize that usually wasted space inside the cabinets.

Room corners: Buy or build racks intended for room wall corners and you would be happy to realize just how many things you can put there to reduce room clutter without constricting human movement passageways.

On top of the tank: People are using this room above the water tank for racks and shelves to store bath items. The racks are commonly wire coated with plastic to reduce oxidation in the always-humid location, or there are all-plastic ones you can purchase. Secure the racks via suction cups to the tiles if you do not want to damage the tiles.

A precaution: However, overdoing the storage concept may make your apartment look like a warehouse, so be discriminating and practical. If you could, study the ancient Japanese ways of making their small rooms excellently uncluttered and simple by storing articles in unnoticed cabinets and decorative boxes. It will help you greatly.

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