Collected ideas that will help you properly organize storage, highlight more space for the necessary things and reduce their search results.
Storeroom unloads an apartment and makes an interior abandoned. All unnecessary items can be stored on the shelves behind the closed door and do not worry about their aesthetics. But that the storage room was comfortable, it is important to provide several points in its filling. About popular mistakes in organizing this room are told in the article.
1 abandon modular systems
Stationary shelves are quite convenient, but modular systems with the possibility of transforming for changing needs - an indispensable filling of the pantry. If you have the ability to equip space with such systems, do it. So you will save yourself from global alterations and redevelopments in the future.
2 do not plan the room
It seems that planning the storage room is easy: to equip the shelves, drawers and fold things there in an arbitrary order. In fact, the situation may be more complicated: all items that you were going to store can not get into the premises. Therefore, it is very important to calculate the number of things in advance, measure them and highlight the required place to accommodate. To do this, you need a layout plan, without it, storage can turn into chaos.
3 Do not allocate things in importance
Use the following method: All items that are regularly needed must be placed not higher than you can get an elongated hand. If you neglect this rule, it will be uncomfortable to use the storage room. You will have to regularly substitute the step to get to things upstairs, while the low shelves will be occupied by unnecessary objects.
4 abandon additional lighting
The backlight of the boxes and shelves is very important, it facilitates the search for the right thing. Storage in the storage room without additional light, especially with insufficient general lighting, inconvenient. In search of the necessary you will spend much more time than if you immediately see all the contents of the box or shelf.
5 Use only opaque containers
Storage is recommended to do the most viewed. If possible, choose a transparent plastic, a grid or, at least boxes and cans and labels. Without them, you can easily confuse and will look for the right thing for a long time.
6 abandon accessories saving space
Make a bet on accessories, saving place. For example, on organizers that are conveniently folded on each other, hinged baskets for drawers or vacuum packages. In the latter, the storage of bulk textiles will be much more compact. These accessories will help free more space for storing other things and allow more rational to spend a place in the storage room.
7 leave empty space
Storeroom is a relatively small room. That is why all its space should work at the maximum. You should not add all items on the central shelves, and the corners and the upper tiers are left empty. Try to use every centimeter with benefit. Upstairs, you can organize the storage of things that you use rarely, for example, spare chemicals or groceries.
8 give up vertical storage
Storage "In the Column" frees more space and allows compact to have things. It is possible to organize it with the help of special accessories, boxes and organizers: it is more convenient to fold on each other.
9 Do not use the surface of the door
Do not forget that the door canvas is at least a pair of dozens of centimeters of free space. It also applies to the entrance door to the storage room, and small doors from the boxes. Man with hooks, shelves on suckers or suspensions. These places are ideal for storing small things.
