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10 Steps to Making Storage Boxes Work For You
Simple ways to ensure your storage boxes fit perfectly into your home and keep it wonderfully free of clutter
Storage boxes are the perfect portable place to keep clutter, but we often find ourselves collecting containers only to leave them unused and empty. Finding the right storage boxes requires some forward thinking, so follow these tips to ensure you plan ahead and make full use of these handy containers.
Corral your clutter
Keep the space under your bed neat and tidy with boxes that slide out for easy access. Boxes with lids are a good choice to prevent dust build-up. However, if speedy tidying is the priority, then open boxes will help keep things together.
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Keep the space under your bed neat and tidy with boxes that slide out for easy access. Boxes with lids are a good choice to prevent dust build-up. However, if speedy tidying is the priority, then open boxes will help keep things together.
Check out these brilliant bedroom storage solutions
Revel in consistency
By creating a cohesive look for your storage, you’ll help your brain to quickly process the contents of a cupboard or shelf without becoming overwhelmed. Be creative and choose a colour or pattern you love. This will boost positive feelings and encourage you to maintain your newly organised system.
By creating a cohesive look for your storage, you’ll help your brain to quickly process the contents of a cupboard or shelf without becoming overwhelmed. Be creative and choose a colour or pattern you love. This will boost positive feelings and encourage you to maintain your newly organised system.
Collect outdoor oddments
Boxes are for containing stuff, keeping like with like, and ensuring items are safe, dry and dust-free. So they’re an obvious solution for outdoor storage. A box or storage bench is a great way to have some easy-access space for outdoor items and can double up as additional seating. Make it more comfy and pretty with a rug and some cushions when the weather allows.
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Boxes are for containing stuff, keeping like with like, and ensuring items are safe, dry and dust-free. So they’re an obvious solution for outdoor storage. A box or storage bench is a great way to have some easy-access space for outdoor items and can double up as additional seating. Make it more comfy and pretty with a rug and some cushions when the weather allows.
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Aim high
For those difficult-to-reach spaces at the top of wardrobes or the back of cupboards, boxes are brilliant. It’s much easier to move a whole box and retrieve the one item you require than scrabble around for bits and pieces.
Using containers in this way greatly increases the amount of accessible storage you have. Just make sure the box isn’t too heavy – you don’t want to drop it!
For those difficult-to-reach spaces at the top of wardrobes or the back of cupboards, boxes are brilliant. It’s much easier to move a whole box and retrieve the one item you require than scrabble around for bits and pieces.
Using containers in this way greatly increases the amount of accessible storage you have. Just make sure the box isn’t too heavy – you don’t want to drop it!
Box up the boxes
A few strategically placed boxes can help round up all sorts of things that typically end up scattered. In the kitchen, for example, a crate of spice jars can be lifted out so you can see all your flavours at a glance. Similarly, odd utensils that only get used from time to time can be kept together, as well as food container lids that so often fall down the back of a drawer.
A few strategically placed boxes can help round up all sorts of things that typically end up scattered. In the kitchen, for example, a crate of spice jars can be lifted out so you can see all your flavours at a glance. Similarly, odd utensils that only get used from time to time can be kept together, as well as food container lids that so often fall down the back of a drawer.
Treasure teeny things in tiny boxes
Boxes are a perfect solution for your craft room. Clear boxes will help you keep yarns and threads visible, but safe from moths and dust. Colourful, decorated boxes can add a creative atmosphere to the room.
You could also dedicate a box or two to any ongoing projects to keep all the elements together, but dust-free and safe.
Boxes are a perfect solution for your craft room. Clear boxes will help you keep yarns and threads visible, but safe from moths and dust. Colourful, decorated boxes can add a creative atmosphere to the room.
You could also dedicate a box or two to any ongoing projects to keep all the elements together, but dust-free and safe.
Divide and conquer
When it comes to toys, suitable and accessible storage is key. In this child’s bedroom, boxes of different sizes are kept at a low level for ease of use.
Try to think laterally when shopping for suitable storage. Here, there are several different styles of boxes, but they work together because they fit in the space. Remember, you might find the perfect toy storage in the kitchen section of your homewares store.
When it comes to toys, suitable and accessible storage is key. In this child’s bedroom, boxes of different sizes are kept at a low level for ease of use.
Try to think laterally when shopping for suitable storage. Here, there are several different styles of boxes, but they work together because they fit in the space. Remember, you might find the perfect toy storage in the kitchen section of your homewares store.
Hang it out
Hanging boxes are such a creative storage solution. They’re a little bit like a shelf, but so much more flexible.
In this tight space, boxes hung from the dado rail provide storage for those little things you need in a cloakroom. The containers don’t clutter the floor, making it much easier to clean.
Hanging boxes are such a creative storage solution. They’re a little bit like a shelf, but so much more flexible.
In this tight space, boxes hung from the dado rail provide storage for those little things you need in a cloakroom. The containers don’t clutter the floor, making it much easier to clean.
Keep things clean
Bathrooms and kitchens get dirty quickly, so help speed your cleaning along by popping toiletries and frequently used items in plastic boxes. You can quickly lift the box up to wipe underneath and, from time to time, you can clean the inside of the box, too.
Containers made from natural materials do look great, but think carefully about what you store in them and how much moisture and dust they’ll collect. The wipe-clean, wicker-look basket on the top shelf here is ideal, while the natural ones on the lower shelves are perfect for towels.
What do you think of these ideas? How do you organise your storage boxes? Share your ideas and photos in the Comments below.
Bathrooms and kitchens get dirty quickly, so help speed your cleaning along by popping toiletries and frequently used items in plastic boxes. You can quickly lift the box up to wipe underneath and, from time to time, you can clean the inside of the box, too.
Containers made from natural materials do look great, but think carefully about what you store in them and how much moisture and dust they’ll collect. The wipe-clean, wicker-look basket on the top shelf here is ideal, while the natural ones on the lower shelves are perfect for towels.
What do you think of these ideas? How do you organise your storage boxes? Share your ideas and photos in the Comments below.
Calculate the space you have before you go shopping so you can purchase boxes to fit neatly. The box files here slot perfectly into the space provided. Think, too, about where you want to store each item. For example, it’s a good idea to keep frequently used things close to where they’re needed.
If you can’t find a storage box to fit a particular space, try making your own by decorating cereal or shoe boxes.