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Where to Find Extra Storage Space in Your Bedroom
Some bedrooms just won’t be as large as you might like. Whether it’s because the house doesn’t have a lot of square footage to begin with or because bedroom space was sacrificed for other needs – a larger living room, for example, or an extra bathroom – you may find it challenging to achieve the right amount of storage space in a small bedroom.
However, there are ways to create more space for storage in your bedroom.
- Find Ways to Make Your Bed a Storage Space
- Add Storage Furniture and Accessories to Your Room
- Customize Your Bedroom Closet
Take a look at some of the most useful ways to find extra storage space in your bedroom.
Find Ways to Make Your Bed a Storage Space
In many bedrooms, the bed itself is the thing that takes up the most space. If you can find a way to make that work for you as a storage option, you’ll end up with a much neater and more organized room.
If you’re in the market for a new bed frame, one of the easiest ways to get some more storage space is to choose one that comes equipped with drawers underneath. You may also want to choose a storage headboard – you can find headboards equipped with shelves, cabinets, and drawers, as well as surface space on top of the headboard. If you already have a bed frame without drawers and a new one isn’t in the budget, you still have options.
Under-the-bed storage can work for many people. Choose bins that can slide underneath the bed and fill them with out-of-season clothing or other things you want to store. If a headboard is out of the question, put a bookcase where the headboard would go. That gives you a combination of a headboard and shelves. If you have some room at the foot of your bed, opt for a small TV stand or a hope chest where a footboard will go to add more storage space.
Add Storage Furniture and Accessories to Your Room
If you were going to add furniture to your room anyway, make it storage furniture. Put a storage bench against the wall with a top that lifts off and allows you to store things like books or folded clothes inside or choose one with cubbies that you can use to organize your shoes. Instead of a regular chair, choose an ottoman with a hidden storage container.
Instead of a bedside table, place a tall narrow bookcase at the side of the bed. One of the shelves should be the right height to function as a night table, and you’ll also have higher and lower shelves for additional storage.
Architectural Digest explains how you can decorate with furniture and accessories, such as hanging scarves in frames or arranging jewelry artfully between books and vases, which can save you the room that you would otherwise use on jewelry boxes and other containers.
Customize Your Bedroom Closet
If you have a small bedroom, that may mean you have a small bedroom closet as well. However, chances are that you can use more of it. A basic reach-in closet might have one hanging rod and one shelf above it. A custom closet design would be able to incorporate an additional hanging rod, more shelves, drawers, and a variety of closet accessories to even a small space.
If you have a walk-in closet, a custom closet system could go even further, adding in rods, shelves, and drawers. You could even have cabinets or an island added to create tons of storage space.
Conclusion
A small bedroom can be a challenge, but it’s not an insurmountable one. With the right strategies, furniture, and accessories, your small space can hold all of your things and not appear to be cluttered.