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20 Home Office Organizing Tricks. Organized Home Office. The Tiny Life , Archive » Organizing small spaces: 10 tips to make the most out of your space. 1. Use vertical space After talking with lots of Tiny House folks, I have seen this as a trend: maximize the vertical. Everything above 8 feet is all dead air if you don’t use it, so capitalize on that. You could have a small chest that takes up 2 square feet of floor space. If it is 4 feet tall, you will have around 8 cubic feet of storage. 2. When working with a small space I know that everything needs a place. 3. There are those items which are by their nature, multi functional. 4. Built-ins are nice, but built-ins with a purpose are even better. 5. As if being greener isn’t motivation enough, going digital, as I call it, means that you are able to reduce the tangible items you need. 6.

At this point I am preaching to the choir but, the question is not how to organize all your stuff, but on how to reduce the stuff to organize. 7. One principle that I like to pull from the Zen/Fung Shui school of thought is this. 9. 10. Decorating and Organizing Tiny Houses and Small Spaces | Angela Allen's Wicked Blog. I’ve moved into a larger space now, but I’m still enamored with small spaces, and will be moving into a tiny house when I return to the farm. So, I’m still watching and collecting the coolest ways to make the most of small spaces for storage and a clutter free existence.

Here are a few of the ideas I’ve collected from the web, from friends and family and from my own experience: First, eliminate anything that’s not essential (clutter-bust your life). Store well-labeled boxes in the attic or the eaves with seasonal decorations and out-of-season clothes. Store extra quilts and blankets and linens between the box springs and mattress of your bed (but not down comforters — it will crush the feathers and ruin them). Boost the height of your bed (even using cinder blocks if you are on a budget) to enable under-bed storage in copy paper boxes. Contact local printers for copy paper boxes and envelope boxes. Buy a label maker.

Don’t buy an ottoman that doesn’t also have covered storage inside. Lovely Undergrad: Organize Your Scarves! It's that time of year again, ladies! Tomorrow is the first day of October and if you haven't already been donning your colorful scarves to campus, now's the time to start. I'm a self-proclaimed scarf hoarder. My collection has been steadily growing for a few years and I have a scarf to go with almost any outfit. However, when fall rolls around it's difficult to keep all my scarves in one place, neatly and wrinkle-free.

So I decided to go hunting for some scarf storage options and this is what I found: Chances are slim that you have a random card catalog waiting to be used for some creative purpose. (I sure wish I had one!) I'm in love with this idea of draping scarves on the rungs of an old ladder. ...Or paint it for a fun pop of color! Feeling handy? If you'd rather buy something pre-made for your scarves. Use command adhesive hooks (or splurge on some pretty hooks from your local hobby or hardware store) for an easy way to hang scarves on your wall. Low on money and time?