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How to Make the Most of Your Space in a Small Apartment

Stylized Semmes Studio Apartment with Storage SpaceWhen you live in a small Semmes apartment, it’s vital to make the most of every square inch. Making sure that your home neat and organized can be a real challenge when there isn’t much room, to begin with. This is especially true if you share your small apartment with others. Fortunately, you can use many clever techniques to keep your personal belongings from overwhelming you and your home. It doesn’t matter whatsoever your decorating style may be, these organizational strategies can help you keep everything in your home in its proper place.

Hidden Storage

When space is limited, you need to start thinking about making your furniture do double duty. To add storage to a living room, consider adding a storage ottoman or side table. These pieces can help you keep throws, media cases, and other items organized and out of sight with large interior compartments.

Use the Space Under Furniture

To free up space in your closets and bookshelves, consider storing off-season clothing or rarely used items under beds or other furniture. There are storage containers you can buy that are designed to fit under a bed. But if your bedis too low to the ground, think about adding risers to lift it a few inches. This could give you a much larger space to store items you don’t need access to every day.

Shrink & Save Bulky Items

To save space when storing your sweater collection, blankets, or spare pillows, consider using vacuum bags. These bags form a tight seal around your bulky items, shrinking them down to a much smaller size. They likewise seal out dust, thereby it a good way to store seasonal items. By keeping large and bulky items this way, you can easily store double the number of personal items in the same amount of space.

Hang It Up

One more means to make the most of your small apartment is to use walls to their full potential. Many small apartments lack a hall closet, making it hard to know what to do with coats, hats, and umbrellas. Consider adding hooks or open shelves behind the door or on an adjacent wall to give you more places to keep your things organized. You can use this same principle for bigger items, like bicycles. Adding some sturdy hooks or pegs to a wall could give you a convenient place to hang a bike or other big items, freeing up floor space and keeping your belongings out from underfoot.

Utilize Nooks & Crannies

Occasionally, making the most of your small apartment space would mean putting every nook and cranny to work. With just the right supplies, you can turn the insides of cabinet doors, the back of bathroom doors, crawl spaces, attic spaces, and other areas into storage areas for your things. Furthermore, many closets and cabinets have odd cornersor hidden places that might be perfect for storing items you don’t use daily.

Even just stacking boxes behind your hung clothing can offer a good amount of extra storage. Lastly, maximize your vertical storage space by adding shelves to otherwise unused spots in your kitchen, entryway, bedroom, bathroom, and more. When combined with decorative bins and baskets, your open shelving could become a storage-friendly accent piece for your apartment home.

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