If you live in an apartment or a small home, then you know that literally every inch matters when it comes to setting up your home and making it a liveable space. Before you know it, you can clutter your entire living space in such a way that it makes it severely uncomfortable to be inside of. However, there are plenty of solutions for how to deal with a small living space, and there are cool ways that you can take advantage of each room in your home to get the most out of the space. Here are some clever space hacks that save room in your home…

 

Think vertically

First of all, if you really want to get serious about changing space, then you need to change the mindset of how you are looking at each room. Instead of looking at the floor and thinking of space in a room that way, look at the walls and notice how high up they go. Lots of modern apartments have very tall rooms, even if the horizontal space isn’t much to write home about. Consider how much more space you can have if you build upwards. For example, putting a loft into a tall room practically gives you another room to work with.

 

Put shelves on the wall

As we said above, look to the walls. If you find your kitchen lacking the appropriate amount of cupboard space to hold all of your food, spices, and kitchen hardware, then you can make up for that space by installing shelves onto the wall to add usable space. On top of giving you more room to work with, it is also a lot more freeing to cook and clean in a kitchen that has everything you need in very visible places that are easy to get to.

 

Make your furniture multipurpose

Your furniture is probably one of the biggest aspects of your home that is taking up space. Between tables and couches, furniture can fill a room up faster than anything else, and also demands that you organize everything else around how big that furniture is. For this reason, it is super useful to get furniture that can be multipurpose. For example, it is getting more and more popular to get kitchen tables that fold up onto the wall, since that enables you have a more open space when you don’t need the table, and adds a wall decoration that you didn’t have before.

 

Make the most of your garage for storage

For homeowners, having a garage can be a lifesaver, when it comes to saving space. Aside from having to put your car inside of it, a garage can practically function as a store unit. Sure, you still want to make sure that you have enough room to use it as a workshop when you need it, but there are tons of ways that you can get the most out of the space in your garage, since you don’t need it to be as functional as often, or quite as open as a general living space. Even if you only have a single car garage, there are tons of ways to use the space in your garage to maximize storage, if you keep it neat and organized.

Make your closet more useful

People tend to severely utilize their closets, because they think of them as an incredibly small space. However, if you think of your closet as another room and consider how to make it more functional, then you might find that there are incredible space saving benefits to using a closet more wisely.

 

Don’t rule out a storage unit

If need be, don’t rule out getting a storage unit to help you keep some of your important belongings that you don’t necessarily need to put up in your home during that time. For example, it takes up a lot of room to put a bike and a pair of skis in your home, but you can keep your skis and other winter accessories in a storage unit during summer, and then trade them out with summer items when it gets colder. This can be a smart idea, since the cost of getting a larger apartment is much higher than the cost of getting space in a storage unit.

 

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