Sometimes having a small home can be great and exactly what you need. However, when is a small space too small for what you need? Extra furniture, new family members, and any tenants who are renting rooms can all be taking up more and more space, limiting the useable living areas in your home. Here are a few tips that can help you create more space if your living quarters have started becoming a little cramped.
Do a Major Cleanout
You can go through your entire home and clear out the things that are taking up space that you don’t need. There may be items that you no longer use or want and have forgotten about, and throwing away these possessions, selling them, or giving them to charity can help create more room in your home. Certain items that you wish to keep but don’t need in your home for immediate use can be put into an off-site storage unit.
Add More Shelving
Shelves can be added to different parts of your home to hold many of the items that might be taking up space in rooms and hallways. You can install new shelves on the upper and lower levels of any bare wall. Shelves can even be placed on the insides of the pantry, closet, and bedroom doors. Even floating shelves, which are tied to a string and suspended from the ceiling, can help you save space in your home.
Expand Your House
If you have the money and enough space on your property, you can have new additions built onto your home to make it larger and roomier. Top and ground floor additions along with granny flats are some of the home extensions to think about when deciding on this plan of action. These additions may be necessary if your home is beyond its capacity because of new children or people who’ve moved into your house.
Pack Unused Clothes and Linens in Luggage
If you don’t plan to use any linens or out-of-season clothes for a while, you can pack them in luggage to save closet space. Rolling linens and clothes instead of folding them can allow you to fit more items into luggage pieces. You can also place linens and clothes into vacuum storage bags before placing them into luggage pieces to save even more room.
You don’t have to continue to live in a house that doesn’t give you the space that you need to move freely and feel comfortable. With these space-saving tips, you can reclaim much of your home. The only question now is whether you plan to do it through a small, immediate fix like a little spring cleaning or a big, permanent fix like expanding your house.
