Creative Ways To Make The Most of Your Small Spaces

Trying to make the most out of the interior of your home can save you both space and money. Luckily, with a little creativity, your small space issues can become a problem of the past. Most homes experience clutter when it comes to organizing each room’s layout and their necessary tools, appliances, and decor.

A pull-out dining table actually exists — and to think all these years we’ve been letting our dining tables rule over our dining areas. To say the least, it’s a superb idea for a small space, making room for our workout sessions or whatever else.

Imagine this room without the mirrors. It would look considerably smaller. Mirrors have a way of playing tricks on the eyes of the beholder, and this is a good thing for a decorator because it produces a lot to work with.

A window seat may sound like something from the past, but window seats are practical and pretty. Use a thick, comfy cushion, so you can snuggle up there with a good book on a spring day or with a soft throw and the dog on a cool fall evening.

You see it on movies and television but not too often in real life, and there is not much of a good reason why. It’s a good idea, really — under the floor storage. It doesn’t just save space. It takes up no space.

These super-handy hanging fridge drawers make lots of extra space in a crowded, small refrigerator. A single person has only a little of this and a little of that, and it’s hard to keep it all organized in your fridge, so you can find it when you need it.

If you are living in a small space, you must make room wherever you can. This coffee table is a great creative solution for how you can do that. You can use this coffee table to store your remote controls, coasters…whatever you find yourself in need of most often while you are vegging on the couch.

To survive in a small space, every empty space must be utilized. That is why these cupboards under the staircase are such a great idea. Some spaces are small cubbyholes, but most of them are tall and deep drawers that can store tons of stuff.

Some apartments, it seems, are just not laid out well, but this one is compartmentalized so that it works for looks and utility. There is a shelf for everything you could possibly think of.

It only makes sense that a small space works better with small furniture, but what type of small furniture works best? For one, go with glass top tables. Because they are clear, they make the room appear larger than normal tables.

Isn’t this little nook just amazing? The possibilities are endless in this tiny room. You can read comfortably with pillows and a blanket, all the while utilizing the shelf for an essential oil diffuser. You can nap and set an alarm.

Elevating your bed works in more ways than just one. First, of course, you lift it higher off of the ground. This obviously makes for more storage underneath, but what type of storage?

When you have more than one child in a bedroom, it’s especially important to make the room fun. With this triple trundle bed and a little imagination, you can take your kids’ room to the next level.

A space that is most often totally wasted is the space over your doors. Sure there’s not a lot of stuff that will fit in a space so short, but after a little thought, you can get creative. For example, use it to store some books that you don’t need to access very often.

Wow, what fun! It’s a world of play that just rolls under the bed at bedtime. This is such a phenomenal idea for kids. With three drawers, you can play at least three different ways, but with open play, the worlds go far beyond that.

Hardly anyone has enough space in their kitchen unless they just don’t eat there. A common issue is that the kitchen table sometimes can be a catch-all. One way to avoid this is with a Murphy-style kitchen table. Just fold it out when you need to use it, and tuck it away when you don’t.

What a wonderful idea! Whoever thought of this was a genius. Keeping your pots and pans in your cabinets not only takes up tons of space but also tends to scratch your pots and pans. Plus, it is a chore to take them all out and unstack them just to get the one you need.

Shelves are useful as they are. They give us a place to store stuff that would otherwise be in a box somewhere or in a drawer. So, when you talk about doubling the use you get out of them, that is really something. Here is how you do that — by using the underside of a shelf, as well.

When there are two of you, and often when there is only one, in a small space, it’s hard to find enough closet space. This under-the-stairs closet is a wonderful remedy.

This homemade-looking headboard is beautiful and triple-purposed. First, it’s a nice headboard, a piece of furniture for the head of your bed. Second, there’s a shelf across the top for your glasses or whatever you may want to put on it.

There is absolutely no room, nor adequate light for putting on makeup in a small bathroom. Design yourself a small vanity similar to this one to solve such an issue.

Your washer and dryer set can be an eyesore. Even if it is new, it just isn’t the kind of thing that makes a fashion statement, plus, in a small space, it’s going to take up a lot of room.

Bedtime and kids don’t always go together so well, but it is truly easier if your children have a place to sleep where they feel at ease and happy. Give your kids bunk beds like these.

This is a really great set-up for a child. On one single wall, there are places for their clothes, their shoes and accessories, their toys, and their bed.

Here, we have a really eye-catching project. It’s a drop-ceiling that doubles as a lovely, lighted bookcase. The top is left open, so you can use it to show off your plants or your favorite pottery.

An idea that first started in tiny homes, stuffing stairs with all manner of things is a wonderful way to save space. As you see here, every step can conceal a drawer. You can store blankets, linens, towels, shoes, sweaters, jeans, books, and more. The possibilities are almost endless.

This bedside organizer can change your bedtime life. Always losing your phone, remote, or glasses? You will always know where they are with this bedside organizer.

Using a bench instead of chairs on the rear side of your dining room table, not only makes a fashion statement of the best kind but also makes room for more people to sit for a meal on that side of the table. Plus, with a thick, cozy cushion, everyone will be vying for a seat on the bench.

Another great idea for making the most of your small space is to measure the width, height, and depth of your “cubbyhole” shelves and shop for baskets that will fit well inside. This idea means using these baskets like drawers.

Bunk beds are great and all, but they normally aren’t at all about privacy. These bunk beds put an end to all of that. These bunk beds open to opposite sides with a wall on the other side, giving the person complete privacy.

Our cleaning utensils get stuffed into a closet, and we are so happy that we can close the door because ironically the cleaning closet is always a mess. However, by just doing something as simple as handing a peg rail on the back of the door to the closet, you can clean up a lot of that clutter.

While probably not a great place to hide your valuables, this would be an awesome place for storage of all kinds of things from pillows, blankets, and linens to coats, sweaters, and other winter clothes in the summertime.

The corners of a room can make the space look drab and flat, but something as simple as a few floating corner shelves can make all the difference. Here, two shelves are used to get knick-knacks out of boxes. One shelf is used to show off an old clock-radio, and one is used to sport a healthy plant.

Don’t laugh. It may be more helpful than you realize. Roll carts are great for the service and storage of bars in a small space, but that’s not all. Have to do your makeup routine in the main bathroom but don’t have room there to keep all your personal items? Put it all on a rolling cart, and take it to the bathroom with you.

Any single adult needs three things in his bedroom. He, or she needs, at a bare minimum, a bed, a closet, and a desk, and here, you have it all on one wall. It’s tight, too. You can almost reach down to get your clothes from your bed.

Many people just don’t think of a window sill as anything else but that — a window sill. However, a window sill can have personality. It is a great place for a vase or statue. Best of all, though, window sills are great places for plants.

This Murphy-style bed would save you a lot of space. You could forego the guest room by putting one in your office for when company comes. Not only does a bed fold out, but when the bed is folded away, a table comes into play. Talk about utility!

You can do a lot to a room with paint. You can color it, use contrasting colors to highlight parts of it or items in it, or like in this room, you can use what are usually dark colors to make things disappear.

Your glasses, phone, remotes, wallet, books, headphones — whatever things you may need, are at your fingertips with just a quick slide. Then, just as quickly, hide them away with a smooth glide.

There is probably already a towel rack in your bathroom that either displays a set of decorative towels matching your shower curtain or holds the towel you used the last time you took a shower. The third option is there may be a pair of jeans and a t-shirt on the towel rack and five damp towels on the floor.

Some of us like our objects and plenty of them, and others are minimalists. No matter which one you are, if you live in a small space, you simply don’t have the luxury of being able to opt for a desk surrounded by objects.