Tiny house storage ideas

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All good idea. Our kids' room (share of course) has a wall of the ikea shelving that holds 12x12 bins and that's great.

All furniture has 2 purposes. Steps to upper bunk is actually a dresser. Window seat designed to hold toys and games. Guest bed is a trundle with drawers.

And, yes, have less stuff whenever possible.

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Anonymous wrote:All good idea. Our kids' room (share of course) has a wall of the ikea shelving that holds 12x12 bins and that's great.

All furniture has 2 purpose[b]s. Steps to upper bunk is actually a dresser. Window seat designed to hold toys and games. Guest bed is a trundle with drawers.

And, yes, have less stuff whenever possible.

Love this idea of dual purpose furniture. Please keep suggestions coming! Especially in living areas. Does anyone have a good coffee table with storage?

Also, what are your small space kids art display tips?

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I agree that the main thing is to own less stuff.

For kids, we have only one week of clothes in each size, plus “Sunday best.”. I run a mini load every day so it’s plenty of clothes.

Adults have slightly more just because we need a week’s worth of work clothes and a week’s worth of casual clothes and a week’s worth of workout clothes.

Kids have 3 pairs of shoes each total—sneakers in their current size, rain boots and water shoes. In winter the water shoes get packed away and in summer the rain boots do, so day-to-day only 2 pairs.

We put an armoire in our entryway, and installed a second rod down below for the kids’s jackets so our coats, etc. hang at adult height and theirs is 2’ off the bottom of the unit. We also added one of those hanging storage things for shoes and that’s where we put hats, bug spray, umbrellas, etc. all the little stuff you need handy. Beside this unit is a bench with shelves for shoes.

For toys, we minimize what they keep and we purge 3 times a year—right before Christmas, right before Easter and right before kids’ summer birthdays. We have a big bin of magnatiles, a big bin of legos, a big bin of dress-ups, and art supplies. Anything else mostly gets purged eventually. In the kids’ room they each have a 12”x12” bin they can fill with whatever other junk/treasure they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Use the area above your bathroom door for storage (put a shelf there). I have friends in NY that make shelves up high around their children's bedroom to store things like books/toys and then they rotate the stuff that they can play with. Works great for displaying Legos.

We also donate a lot of toys and clothes that are given as presents. Did that for plenty of birthdays and Xmases but I'm still finding that we have too much stuff. I keep thinking we should set up a monthly donation run

I'd say I'm very good at small space organization and I've never thought of this. Love it!

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Anonymous wrote:

These look great but agree with PP that this will probably cost a lot to install. Your money would be better spent installing vertical storage on the walls or stud spaces. Are the stairway walls finished with drywall or are they open studs? If open, you can cover them with pegboard and use that to store all kinds of stuff. Or you could try these--I just bought some of these for the unfinished side of the basement and they work well:

https://studshelf.com

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Anonymous wrote:High profile bed frames and bigger totes fit underneath.

Routine purging of items not in use.

Rotate toys.

Currently working on a floor to ceiling shelves in the basement for seasonal/occasional use stuff.

If you have stud framing, it's worth it to put in Elfa or something like that, since it's so flexible. We covered the insulation with vapor barrier (so it wouldn't tear) and bought 16" deep Elfa shelves when they had the annual sale, and covered the whole end wall of our basement with it.

An alternative are these, which hang from the joists (or each other) -- they are just wire frames and you buy shelves or planks at Home Depot to lay across them. You can put them anywhere you have joists and you can make them any length you want (assuming you can get a shelf that length).

http://quickshelf.com

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Anonymous wrote:All good idea. Our kids' room (share of course) has a wall of the ikea shelving that holds 12x12 bins and that's great.

All furniture has 2 purpose[b]s. Steps to upper bunk is actually a dresser. Window seat designed to hold toys and games. Guest bed is a trundle with drawers.

And, yes, have less stuff whenever possible.

Love this idea of dual purpose furniture. Please keep suggestions coming! Especially in living areas. Does anyone have a good coffee table with storage?

Also, what are your small space kids art display tips?

For our coffee table, we got one with a simple design ... flat top and shelf on the bottom. We slide 2 storage boxes on to the shelves and they hold a bunch of kids toys but look neat and are easy to throw things into a few times a day. (We organize every couple weeks and they get disorganized in a couple days.) For art, we keep a tall skinny shelving unit (bought on amazon ... for art suplies) with baskets in the guest room/office that the kids can go into only to get their art supplies. Ideally it would be in the basement but they never want to do art there.

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OMG, super cool. That is way more effective for me than a bunch of stuff hanging on the walls or huge storage units lining walls. I hate the visual clutter of all of that stuff or coat racks and the like. Thanks for showing an example!!!

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If you have a bathtub with a curtain I highly recommend this. We use it as a shower liner and fill the bottom with the kids bath toys and the top holds my hair supplies

https://www.amazon.com/Maytex-Pockets-Waterproof-Curtain-Organizer/dp/B003ZHVDAG?pd_rd_w=QSedL&pf_rd_p=e0d46bc2-436f-4db3-a26e-323523040b19&pf_rd_r=NB1W3MX9YMECRWQWNNCT&pd_rd_r=2b11a0cf-a902-41bd-87ee-cedf89d3f3e0&pd_rd_wg=sdRZK&pd_rd_i=B003ZHVDAG&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_m_rp_1_sc

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I joined my local Buy Nothing and relentlessly get rid of stuff--every week I go through the house looking for what is unused or could be better used by someone else.

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I live in <1000 sq ft with 2 kids and have scoured the internet for small space inspiration. The things that have worked for us include:

1. tall skinny ikea pax wardrobes. The tallest ones you can fit! We reach high shelves by stashing fold up step stools in the bedrooms, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Greenco-Super-Strong-Foldable-Adults/dp/B00O9A57L4?ref_=ast_sto_dp

2. a reasonably attractive fold flat ladder, which we hang from a hook in nook in our hallway and actually get compliments on the look: https://www.amazon.com/Hasegawa-Ladders-Lucano-Ladder-Orange/dp/B00GG65EYE?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

3. a storage platform in our bulkhead that rolls out for us to access (we have stairs in our unit going to the roof, but don't have access to the space beneath the stairs). Think something like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9148005497232564/ it holds all of our bulky things like suitcases, ski boots, etc.

4. vacuum sealed bags for out of season things, and for things like sleeping bags, extra bedding, etc that doesn't often get used.

5. drop down desks, expandable kitchen table that stores the expansion leaf when not in use

6. love these for shallow nooks: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/629729960375098443/ They hold a lot! We have 4 as bins for our gloves, hats, sunscreen, bugspray etc by our front door, and have a couple in the kids room and elsewhere.

7. above-door shelves as I think someone else mentioned. Like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/235031674281660866/

obviously purging constantly! As far as "stuff" goes, we fit nicely in our space. If we outgrow the space I assume it will be because all of the humans in the apartment are simply bigger. But for now, with a 5yo and a 3yo, it's working out better than expected!

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Anonymous wrote:I live in <1000 sq ft with 2 kids and have scoured the internet for small space inspiration. The things that have worked for us include:

1. tall skinny ikea pax wardrobes. The tallest ones you can fit! We reach high shelves by stashing fold up step stools in the bedrooms, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Greenco-Super-Strong-Foldable-Adults/dp/B00O9A57L4?ref_=ast_sto_dp

2. a reasonably attractive fold flat ladder, which we hang from a hook in nook in our hallway and actually get compliments on the look: https://www.amazon.com/Hasegawa-Ladders-Lucano-Ladder-Orange/dp/B00GG65EYE?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

3. a storage platform in our bulkhead that rolls out for us to access (we have stairs in our unit going to the roof, but don't have access to the space beneath the stairs). Think something like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9148005497232564/ it holds all of our bulky things like suitcases, ski boots, etc.

4. vacuum sealed bags for out of season things, and for things like sleeping bags, extra bedding, etc that doesn't often get used.

5. drop down desks, expandable kitchen table that stores the expansion leaf when not in use

6. love these for shallow nooks: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/trones-shoe-storage-cabinet-white-00397307/ They hold a lot! We have 4 as bins for our gloves, hats, sunscreen, bugspray etc by our front door, and have a couple in the kids room and elsewhere.

7. above-door shelves as I think someone else mentioned. Like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/235031674281660866/

obviously purging constantly! As far as "stuff" goes, we fit nicely in our space. If we outgrow the space I assume it will be because all of the humans in the apartment are simply bigger. But for now, with a 5yo and a 3yo, it's working out better than expected!

whoops, edited link to #6 above