- Store canned goods under beds in boxes or on cardboard flats for easy retrieval.
- Store under baby cribs and hide it with a long dust ruffle.
- Stack boxes, buckets, or packages between a bed headboard and the wall.
- Stack boxes, buckets, or packages between a couch and the wall.
- Stack boxes or buckets along the wall of a closet underneath hanging clothes.
- Build a false wall with slanted shelves behind it that are one can height wide. Roll cans in the upper end; take them out on the lower end.
- Cut out wall board between wall studs. Insert shallow shelves and put a cabinet door over it.
- Locate unused space under stairs and behind walls of second story rooms. Cut a doorway, finish off walls and floors, put a vent in the wall or use a vented door.
- Stack boxes or buckets. Top with a piece of plywood and cover with a cloth for an end table or decorative accent table.
- Mount 12” deep shelves, floor to ceiling, along a wall. Cover with drapes hung from the ceiling.
- Build bookcases for books and/or toys out of boards and food storage buckets or boxes.
- Add an extra shelf above the existing shelf in a closet.
- Convert an extra closet or half of a large closet to shelves – built in or free standing.
- Replace kitchen soffits with cabinets.
- Use the unused back spaces in corner cupboards.
- Buy a free-standing cabinet or armoire; add extra shelving if necessary.
- Stack boxes or buckets behind a folding screen in the corner of a room.
