Home Storage Ideas for an Organized Home

Home storage ideas for an organized home are plentiful.

Organizing your home can be enhanced by just considering all the home storage solutions that can be found in both the vertical and horizontal spaces.

There are many ideas for you can use for organizing your home. In fact there are so many kinds and varieties of home storage solutions that retail stores now have entire departments for "storage containers". Some stores are even devoted entirely to selling containers to put stuff in!

We are literally running out of room!

Contemporary family homes are now larger than they have ever been throughout history, and still there seems to be a shortage of space to store all the stuff that a family can accumulate. Good evidence of this is the growing industry of renting out public storage compartments.

Now you can not only buy all kinds of different containers to put your stuff in, but when you get too many of those you can rent a space and keep your storage containers in there!

A Baker's Dozen of Home Storage Ideas

1. 26 home storage ideas, one for every letter of the alphabet!


2. use a stacking plastic storage bin for any items where placement needs to be easy and stored items need to be easily accessible.

Plastic storage bins are great for recycling containers or toy organizers. You can even use them in the craft room and the workshop. If you use the really small ones they can hold screws, nails, and lots of "iddy biddy" parts.

3. try cube storage in the bedroom, the living room or the office. Wire storage cubes are great for the kids' rooms.


4. Bedroom closet organizers improve closet organization.


5. a back seat organizer in the car provides a place for everything so you can find it when you need it.


6. try drawer organizers to improve the use of space in any kitchen drawers, bathroom drawers and even bedroom dresser drawers.


7. if you need more bedroom storage space try sleeping on it! A storage bed provides much needed space for toys, books, or even bed linens.


8. don't forget the wasted space where you are just storing air. An over the sink shelf provides a few square centimeters for many of those useful items you need to keep within reach at the kitchen sink.


9. Plastic drawers - an economical way to get drawer space without investing in costly wooden furniture.


10. Plastic boxes will hold anything you want them to in the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, or the office.


11. Plastic baskets can be used in a closet, the kitchen or the bathroom.


12. Plastic food containers - is kitchen organization even possible without them?


13. The Person Who Invented Velcro did not know he was inventing a household product for making it easier to store stuff. Here are some ideas to use velcro tape to store all kids of difficult to store items.

You can create good home storage solutions if you understand your space better.

No matter what ideas you use from this baker's dozen... you will need to implement the clutter control formula to make sure your stuff does not build up and take over your space.

Explore the concept of clutter control to make sure you don't have too much stuff to store.

by Beverly OMalley