Home décor is about so many different things: choosing colours and styles that suit your own
personality, creating a comfortable living environment, impressing friends, and making room for
prized possessions from a past life. Accommodating all of these goals into one space can sometimes
be an enormous challenge – indeed creating something stylish, spacious and cluttered with artefacts
from a past life seems like a huge challenge. The best way to approach this is by employing space-
saving mechanisms to open up an area which can accommodate all of these goals. Here are three
household items that can help in this regard.
Corner sofas
Corner sofas are the best seating solutions for people who want to maximise space. In the right
room they offer up an enormous amount of seating, a comfortable place to relax and fill up floor
area that wouldn’t be used anyways. This strategy doesn’t just apply to people with huge homes,
and many retailers have extensive ranges of corner sofas which should fit most, if not all, homes.
Pull-out Storage Cupboards
Pull-out storage cupboards are generally used in the kitchen where they allow people to store a
huge amount of items without taking up a great deal of surface area. Essentially, these are cabinets
which array shelves at a 90 degree angle to the rest of cabineting, these are then slid out so they
can be accessed. This is a tremendous idea as it means you can fit a huge amount of storage space
into your kitchen without taking up the whole area. Having adequate storage space is essential if you
want to keep your kitchen pleasant and uncluttered.
@Gareth Humphreys
Hidden Storage
People often jam their cupboards full of miscellaneous items from all over the house. This is
fine, provided you have the cupboard space. If you don’t you should get original and considering
purchasing footrests, benches and other items that can double as cabinets. Buy a comfortable
footrest which has a lid that can be removed, then use the empty space to store extra blankets.
Solutions like this can really save you space.
@Sarah Woodham
Saving space around your house is all about originality, so identify your problem and see what
resources you have at your disposal to open up more space – you won’t regret it when you see the
finished product.