!: 5 Simple Ways to Increase Storage Space in Your House Or Apartment

None of us ever seem to have enough storage. I'm not quite sure why, but we seem to accumulate an enormous amount of useful belongings that we can't part with, at least not easily. After all, they are valuable and we are probably going to use them later. Here are some ideas to increase your storage space.

1) Use the space under your bed. We store shoes there in special shoe storage boxes among other things. This is a great area for objects you won't need to access for a long time, like seasonal shoes and other belongings. We also store kids items that are either for when they are older or that an older child has outgrown but the next child is not yet ready for there.

2) Open up a crawl or attic space for storage. We had an attic crawl space accessible only via a small trap door. We had a simple plywood floor placed in the attic crawl space, and a retractable fold up staircase installed, and suddenly we had a lot of more storage space!

3) Organize your closets! Just organizing them will greatly increase how much you can effectively store in them. There are lots of racks and shelves and systems available for closets that make it easy to do.

4) Go through your stuff and throw away the junk, and we all have some of it, and donate the useful things that you'll probably never use. We all have great stuff we'll never use, so we might as well let someone else use it.

5) Use your corner space for effectively. Most corner space goes wasted in most homes and apartments.