5 Different Ways You Can Store Things to Make More Room in Your House

Keeping our homes tidy and well-organized has always been more significant to us than just a chore we put up with to give guests and visitors a good impression of ourselves. It also helps us psychologically, letting us keep our focus on our day-to-day routines and putting us in a good headspace to work from home. If there's clutter off to the side in your room, your mind will most likely be preoccupied with it on a subconscious level even when you're focused squarely on the project in front of you.

Even when you don't have anything important requiring your undivided attention, the feeling that your household goods aren't strewn about your floors will help reduce anxiety. Likewise, giving yourself the ability to simply walk through your hallways without having to step over items means having to expend less mental energy just living in your house. None of this is to mention that you might need to retrieve a particular item among the mess, but having to dig through piles of things to even find it might be a cause for worry that can otherwise be avoided.

Well-organized forms of storage in your residence — and even outside it — both helps make your house easy to move around in and gives you places where you can reliably remember where you might have placed an item you need later. Here are five ways you can keep your items organized and your house free of clutter so that you can keep your daily routines running smoothly.

1. Hire a Household Storage Unit

Sometimes, you don't have an urgent need for your biggest items to be present inside your living space. For example, if you have large furniture that you don't need to set up in your house for a while, you can pay for a domestic storagefacility to temporarily keep it under lock and key. These external storage units can vary wildly in size and can be found as parts of apartment communities and as stand-alone structures, among other locations. They are also useful for items you may only need to bring out once a year, such as clothes for the holidays.

2. Install Shelves in Your Closet

Closets are among the most important amenities in the minds of many home purchasers when deciding which residence to move into. Some homeowners feel they can make do with storing everything in a disorganized pile in their closet, but many try to organize their belongings onto shelves inside it. Sometimes, there is enough space above the top shelf in a closet that another shelf can be installed above it, which would allow for the entire wall to effectively function as storage that the homeowner can easily retrieve goods from.

3. Allow Items to Hang From Your Garage Walls

The other especially common part of a house where homeowners keep their items stored is their garage, but cluttering up its floor is usually frowned upon. Much like with one's closet, attaching shelves onto the walls of the garage turns it into an orderly storage unit, but certain items such as bicycles can't fit on them. Installing hooks or other sturdy protrusions into the wall can allow for especially large items to be securely suspended above the ground in a way that they can be easily taken off the wall when needed.

4. Place Items on the Roofs of your Cabinets

If you have a large cabinet set up against a wall but find that it only offers so much containment space for your needs, you can still make use of its roof as an impromptu shelf for items you might only use rarely. These items will naturally take extra effort to retrieve once you do need them, and piling random items into these conspicuous spaces might ironically make your home come across to guests as more cluttered than it actually is. Putting them in decorative containers such as patterned baskets can alleviate this aesthetic issue.

5. Use Your Own Furniture as Storage

Certain sofas and couches are designed with compartments hidden underneath them. If you're using the space underneath your furniture to store items, you might as well turn that into more official "shelf space" that keeps those items organized. Sofas take up enough space in a house's living room that the space they occupy might as well pull double-duty and be used to prevent items from having to be kept out in the open.

Written by Taylor McKnight, Author for Portable Storage Box