{"id":103804,"date":"2009-12-26T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/five-places-you-can-use-for-storage\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:15:01","slug":"five-places-you-can-use-for-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/103804","title":{"rendered":"Five Places You Can Use for Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to take a look around for places to use for storage and am a big fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diynetwork.com\/wasted-spaces\/show\/index.html\">Wasted Spaces<\/a> television show, which had a lot of great tips for utilizing space you already have for storage. My first house was the poster child for their television show, with tons of built ins and cubbies. It was only two bedrooms and very small in square footage, but I actually had more storage space than I needed and never even looked in my attic space.<\/p>\n<p>From there, I moved to a house that had virtually no storage and, boy, did I miss my tiny house. If you have all the square footage in the world and you don\u2019t have shelving and cupboards, you can feel more disorganized and cluttered than you did in a lot less space. So, I began a hunt for storage space. Here are five of my favorite places to put storage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/storageideas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;margin-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/storageideas_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"storage ideas\" width=\"244\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under a bench \u2013 I have five matching baskets tucked under my hall bench, which is about six feet long. The baskets are really handy and hold shoes, gardening stuff, etc. in a very organized fashion. Guests walking into the house see five tidy baskets instead of a bunch of loose stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Under the stairs \u2013 We have a small closet under the higher stair treads in the hallway. I lined it with narrow shelves and now I have space for all my canned goods. (There wasn\u2019t a pantry, probably because the former owners flipped the living room and kitchen around and who builds a house with a pantry beside their living room in 1902?)<\/li>\n<li>On top of cabinets \u2013 Some people like to build their cabinets in or choose cabinets that go up to the ceiling. I like that extra foot of space empty so I can put vintage pottery and a few other display pieces up. If you do have a soffit, you can still take advantage of the space by putting in a narrow piece of plate rail molding to display some of your favorite plates.<\/li>\n<li>Under beds \u2013 Just putting some boxes under your bed can make things less organized instead of tidier. Putting an under bed system with pull out drawers under the bed is a whole new experience.<\/li>\n<li>Inside furniture \u2013 Choose a footstool that holds blankets or toys, an island with drawers and cupboards, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where do you find unexpected storage opportunities?<\/p>\n<p>Photo: SXC<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/five-places-you-can-use-for-storage\/\">Five Places You Can Use for Storage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to take a look around for places to use for storage and am a big fan of the Wasted Spaces television show, which had a lot of great tips for utilizing space you already have for storage. My first house was the poster child for their television show, with tons of built ins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}