Home Organization and Storage - If your home is built with studs and drywall, you can add cabinets between the studs, anywhere you need them they won't take up any space at all. For example, put a liquor cabinet over your bar, or fashion a canned-goods pantry in your kitchen.
Pegboard is most often used on walls, but it can also be used as a room divider, or even to make the inside of a closet or cabinet door more functional. When installing pegboard, remember to provide space behind the panels for the hooks. If you're short on wall space for books, you can pull a sofa away from a wall and surround it with arm-height bookcases.
Glass baby food jars are ideal for storing nails and screws. Better yet, nail the caps to a wood base or wall plaque, and just screw the jars into place. And remember that partly used tubes of glue won't diy out if they're kept in a tightly closed jar. Use flat, roll-out bins for under-the-bed storage. They can hold bed linens, sewing supplies, and infrequently used items.
Nail coffee cans to the wall to make bins for clips, pins, or other small items. A hallway that's wide enough can double as a storage area. Line the hallway with shelves or shallow cabinets.To increase the capacity and efficiency of a drawer, outfit it with a lift-out tray. Fill the tray with items you frequently use, and use the space beneath the tray for articles you seldom need.
Add more storage space in your bedroom by building a headboard storage unit. You can place books, lamps, or a radio on the lid of the unit and inside you can store extra linens and blankets.
For extra closet storage, see if your closets can accommodate a second shelf above the existing one. And if you install the main clothes-hanging rod high enough, you may be able to install another rod beneath it on which to hang shorter items such as slacks and shirts. Put the space under a stairway to work as a storage area. Construct a wheeled, wedge-shaped container that fits into the farthest area beneath the steps.
Another way to use a stairway as a storage area is to replace ordinary nailed-in-place steps with hinged steps. Use the space under the hinged steps to hold boots or sports equipment.
If you're in need of an extra closet for storing items like golf clubs, skis, and camping equipment, angle a decorative folding screen in a little- used corner.
Hooks, shelves, or hanging bins can transform the inside surfaces of closet doors into useful storage areas.
Keep a stool and a hooked pole handy for use in a tall closet. If your cedar chest or closet no longer smells of cedar, lightly sand its surfaces. Sanding opens the wood's pores and releases a fresh cedar scent. Remember that the scent doesn't kill moths; it merely repels them. So, it's best to clean all clothes before storing to remove any moth eggs.
Convert an ordinary closet or chest into a cedar closet or chest by installing thin cedar slats over inside surfaces. Then weatherstrip to contain the scent. Install two rows of clothing and coat hooks on your closet doors one down low for a child to use, another higher up for you to use.
For a double-duty ottoman, build a plywood box with a hinged cover. Paint the outside or cover it with fabric, and then cover the top with scrap carpeting. Add a cushion for comfortable sitting, and store your magazines in style.
Make your bathroom work for all family members. For the little child in the house, store a stool under the sink vanity.
Use an extra slot in the toothbrush holder to keep a medicine spoon handy.
So that you won't misplace frequently used items, glue small magnets on the walls of the medicine cabinet to hold nail files, cuticle scissors, clippers, and other small metal objects.
If you save the tops to shampoo bottles and toothpaste tubes, you'll have a handy replacement should a top from a new container get lost.
Hang a wicker basket on the bathroom wall for storing towels, tissues, soap, and bath toys and other incidentals.
Your medicine cabinet will stay neat and clean with "shelf paper'' made of blotters that can absorb medicine or cosmetic spills.
Keep toothbrushes handy but neatly out of the way on cup hooks attached to a wall or undera cabinet.
If you color code cups and toothbrushes in the bathroom with each family member choosing a different color there'll be no confusion over what belongs to each person.
Hang a basket near the front door and keep your keys in it, so you'll always know where they are. Use this basket also for bills and letters that need to be mailed. When you grab your keys, you 11 remember to pick up the mail as well.
Extension cords won't get tangled when stored in a drawer if you wind them and secure them with rubber bands or slip them into a toilet paper or paper towel tube.
To keep a broom from resting on its bristles and thus becoming lopsided, drill a hole in the broom's handle and hang the broom on the wall.
Keep flashlight batteries fresh by storing them in a sealed plastic bag in the refrigerator.
When storing suitcases, put an unwrapped cake of soap inside each one to prevent musty odors from developing.
To give yourself more storage space in a small bathroom, erect shelves in the "dead' wall space beside the vanity, over the toilet, or behind the door. Such shelves offer convenient storage without intruding on floor space.
Make your shower curtain rod do double duty attach extra curtain hooks to hold a back brush, a net bag for bath toys, each family member's washcloth, or a shower cap.
Keep place mats flat and out of the way by hanging them on a clipboard hung from a hook inside a cabinet or pantry door.
Keep your wet umbrella in the shower where it can drip away without making a mess. This is an especially useful strategy when you have company on a rainy day, and everyone has an umbrella.
You'll always know where your photo negatives are if you store them behind corresponding prints in your photo album.
Photographic film will stay fresh longer if stored in your refrigerator.
Pegboard is most often used on walls, but it can also be used as a room divider, or even to make the inside of a closet or cabinet door more functional. When installing pegboard, remember to provide space behind the panels for the hooks. If you're short on wall space for books, you can pull a sofa away from a wall and surround it with arm-height bookcases.
Glass baby food jars are ideal for storing nails and screws. Better yet, nail the caps to a wood base or wall plaque, and just screw the jars into place. And remember that partly used tubes of glue won't diy out if they're kept in a tightly closed jar. Use flat, roll-out bins for under-the-bed storage. They can hold bed linens, sewing supplies, and infrequently used items.
Nail coffee cans to the wall to make bins for clips, pins, or other small items. A hallway that's wide enough can double as a storage area. Line the hallway with shelves or shallow cabinets.To increase the capacity and efficiency of a drawer, outfit it with a lift-out tray. Fill the tray with items you frequently use, and use the space beneath the tray for articles you seldom need.
Add more storage space in your bedroom by building a headboard storage unit. You can place books, lamps, or a radio on the lid of the unit and inside you can store extra linens and blankets.
For extra closet storage, see if your closets can accommodate a second shelf above the existing one. And if you install the main clothes-hanging rod high enough, you may be able to install another rod beneath it on which to hang shorter items such as slacks and shirts. Put the space under a stairway to work as a storage area. Construct a wheeled, wedge-shaped container that fits into the farthest area beneath the steps.
Another way to use a stairway as a storage area is to replace ordinary nailed-in-place steps with hinged steps. Use the space under the hinged steps to hold boots or sports equipment.
If you're in need of an extra closet for storing items like golf clubs, skis, and camping equipment, angle a decorative folding screen in a little- used corner.
Hooks, shelves, or hanging bins can transform the inside surfaces of closet doors into useful storage areas.
Keep a stool and a hooked pole handy for use in a tall closet. If your cedar chest or closet no longer smells of cedar, lightly sand its surfaces. Sanding opens the wood's pores and releases a fresh cedar scent. Remember that the scent doesn't kill moths; it merely repels them. So, it's best to clean all clothes before storing to remove any moth eggs.
Convert an ordinary closet or chest into a cedar closet or chest by installing thin cedar slats over inside surfaces. Then weatherstrip to contain the scent. Install two rows of clothing and coat hooks on your closet doors one down low for a child to use, another higher up for you to use.
For a double-duty ottoman, build a plywood box with a hinged cover. Paint the outside or cover it with fabric, and then cover the top with scrap carpeting. Add a cushion for comfortable sitting, and store your magazines in style.
Make your bathroom work for all family members. For the little child in the house, store a stool under the sink vanity.
Use an extra slot in the toothbrush holder to keep a medicine spoon handy.
So that you won't misplace frequently used items, glue small magnets on the walls of the medicine cabinet to hold nail files, cuticle scissors, clippers, and other small metal objects.
If you save the tops to shampoo bottles and toothpaste tubes, you'll have a handy replacement should a top from a new container get lost.
Hang a wicker basket on the bathroom wall for storing towels, tissues, soap, and bath toys and other incidentals.
Your medicine cabinet will stay neat and clean with "shelf paper'' made of blotters that can absorb medicine or cosmetic spills.
Keep toothbrushes handy but neatly out of the way on cup hooks attached to a wall or undera cabinet.
If you color code cups and toothbrushes in the bathroom with each family member choosing a different color there'll be no confusion over what belongs to each person.
Hang a basket near the front door and keep your keys in it, so you'll always know where they are. Use this basket also for bills and letters that need to be mailed. When you grab your keys, you 11 remember to pick up the mail as well.
Extension cords won't get tangled when stored in a drawer if you wind them and secure them with rubber bands or slip them into a toilet paper or paper towel tube.
To keep a broom from resting on its bristles and thus becoming lopsided, drill a hole in the broom's handle and hang the broom on the wall.
Keep flashlight batteries fresh by storing them in a sealed plastic bag in the refrigerator.
When storing suitcases, put an unwrapped cake of soap inside each one to prevent musty odors from developing.
To give yourself more storage space in a small bathroom, erect shelves in the "dead' wall space beside the vanity, over the toilet, or behind the door. Such shelves offer convenient storage without intruding on floor space.
Make your shower curtain rod do double duty attach extra curtain hooks to hold a back brush, a net bag for bath toys, each family member's washcloth, or a shower cap.
Keep place mats flat and out of the way by hanging them on a clipboard hung from a hook inside a cabinet or pantry door.
Keep your wet umbrella in the shower where it can drip away without making a mess. This is an especially useful strategy when you have company on a rainy day, and everyone has an umbrella.
You'll always know where your photo negatives are if you store them behind corresponding prints in your photo album.
Photographic film will stay fresh longer if stored in your refrigerator.
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