Creative Storage Solutions

There are many ways to find space where none seems to exist. The key is to look and then look again.

Glimpse beyond a door, look above the window, peek below a table and put a cabinet in a place you never thought to put it before. Instead of looking around at eye level, look up and down. Think vertical. The air above you is fertile ground for storage.

Using storage cabinets
Dolores Cobb, a New York decorator and self-proclaimed veteran of tiny apartments says, "A tall storage cabinet (96" tall x 12" deep x 18" wide) can open up your floor and wall space and provide limitless storage solutions. She employs such cabinets with or without doors, depending on the available space. "Open cabinets can make a space look bigger. In tiny apartments, I use them on both ends of a small sofa, paint them to match the walls, install new pulls (on doors), then float a small end table in front of them. Sometimes Ill place a small painting or mirror on the doors they look fantastic."

Cobb says she gets the cabinets unassembled, often made of pressed wood and sometimes faux-paints them for drama. "In an hour of easy gluing and assembly, you can create enchantment and a much more appealing and organized life!"