These tiny home dwellers reveal storage hacks so good you’ll want to steal them for yourself!
Less stuff, more space
More people are turning to a minimalist lifestyle; for some, that means moving into a tiny house with less than 600 square feet. While the tiny house lifestyle offers freedoms like less clutter and the ability to pick up and go, it also requires lots of creativity when it comes to how to store everyday essentials. If you are struggling with how to fit stuff in your own, not-so-small, home these hacks will be a lifesaver
Hang Chip Bags from Wire Shelves With Plastic Pants Hangers
Next time you’re looking for a chip clip, consider repurposing a pants hanger from the closet instead. When your chips are suspended in the air, you have more space to store other things underneath the bags on the actual shelf part.
Use Storage Bins on the Inside of Bathroom Cabinet Doors
Doors are such a good place to carve out more storage space. In this case, adding bins to the insides of bathroom cabinet doors gives you a space to store items you need to grab often, such as a hair straightener or styling products. If you can’t screw anything into the doors because you’re renting or you don’t want to mar them, try an over-the-door shelving unit.
Use Lazy Susans to Prevent Pantry Corner Dead Space
Lining things up near the corners of the pantry leaves a square of empty space or an awkward configuration of items that are hard to reach. Transform this no-man’s land into one of the most useful spots in your pantry with a lazy Susan that will turn each thing on it right to your finger tips.
Hang a Silverware Organizer on the Wall to Store Jewelry
Look up! If you have an old drawer organizer lying around, try adding a few mug hooks on the inside of the compartments, wall-mounting it, and using it to stash your necklaces, earrings, and other jewelry.
Stack Hand Weights in a Wine Rack
Exercise equipment is bulky and tricky to store in a small apartment. A wine rack offers an unobtrusive and perfectly-sized storage solution for the weights you use when you do your workout videos. Camouflage them among the bottles (or vice versa).
Use an IKEA Shoe Rack as a “Linen Closet”
Short on storage space for towels and extra linens? The IKEA Hemnes shoe cabinet is a slim profile, nice-looking, and inexpensive solution for organizing them. Try rolling your towels for the best use of space.
Use Tension Rods to Store Baking Sheets Vertically
Stacked cookware is never ideal. Using tension rods to create slots in your kitchen cabinets allows you to store baking sheets, muffin tins, and platters vertically so you can see what you have and grab it without having to unstack everything on top of it.
Make a Food Storage Lid Organizer With a Bin and a Cooling Rack
Travel down the aisles of your favorite organizing store to find a right-sized pair of this unique combo: a drying/cooling rack and a plastic storage bin, which will allow you to store all those messy, mismatched food storage lids in one tidy, easy-to-grab spot.
Separate Tiny Items with Silicone Cupcake Liners
I use them in my kids’ lunchboxes to keep the peeled orange wedges from getting the veggie straws soggy, but silicone cupcake liners are also perfect for corralling small items like push pins, safety pins, paper clips, or bobby pins in drawers.
Use Hanging Closet Organizers to Store Paper Products
That economy pack of paper towels from Costco isn’t going to store itself. And you probably don’t want to brace against a paper product avalanche every time you need a new roll. A hanging closet organizer with narrow slots puts paper towel rolls out of the way but within (safe) reach.
