Whether you are redecorating a single room or designing an entire new home, here are 6 simple steps to planning for adequate storage in your design.
1. Make a list of all the activities that will take place in each room.
2. List the items you will need to store for each activity? In addition to naming the individual items, make note of their shape, size, volume, rate of acquisition and growth (you always need room to grow).
3. Now look at your floor plan (including furniture placement) and determine where in the room you would ideally like to have these items stored. In general, the closer an item is to it’s point of use, the better.
4. Select the best storage solution for each item or group of items. This may be a traditional furniture piece (a book case for books) or an unusual container that matches your decor and ALSO provides adequate storage (like a steamer trunk that serves as a storage for craft supplies or a vintage hat box that houses your extra computer cables).
5. Make sure that it’s “easy” for both you and others in your household to take out and put away the items you are storing. For example, don’t set a decorative display on top of a storage box or it is unlikely you’ll go to all the trouble of moving the decorative items to get to what’s inside.
6. If you expect others to retrieve and store items, consider “labels” for your containers so that EVERYONE in the household knows where to find and put things away. There’s a reason that cutlery drawer dividers work so well for storing silverware– they are VERY user friendly.
What decorative or creative ways have you found to store some of the “stuff” in your life?
originally posted from Home Goods
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