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February 03, 2005
Up, Up, and Away.
I promised a reader I'd share more kitchen storage ideas for tiny places, and I aim to please.
Our closets are teeny and overpacked. One houses a huge water heater, a boiler apparatus, and a vacuum. Another houses a lot of shoes, sweaters, and luggage, and the third? It holds an ironing board, three guitar cases and all our coats, even though it's not even deep enough for the entire width of a hanger. Who builds a closet that shallow?
So we look for alternatives. There are the usual places, mostly under furniture.
But I am a woman who needs a lot more than under-bed-boxes. My boyfriend has an old computer he won't throw away. There's a carrying case for my sewing machine. We kept the heinous medicine cabinet that came with the place (we plan to rehang it upon leaving, taking our nice new one with us). I have a big bag of potting soil. He has a huge home brewing kit. I've got more than eight gallons of paint to hide. We have all of this crap, crap we sorta need, crap we definitely don't want to look at on a regular basis.
Any guide to living in a small space will tell you the following: Look up. Think vertically.
Ladies, gentlemen, I now present my garage:
If you have a large space between the tops of your kitchen cabinets and your ceiling (and many of us do), you can stash tons and tons of stuff up there. It's easy to rig a screen or curtain to hide it all, as I have above. Fabric, string, cup hooks. It's not my best work, but it's totally functional. It holds everything that won't fit elsewhere, and it's not out in the open.
You could make it more permanent if you like, with shelves and real doors with hinges, or a screen that slides on a track, but hey, I'm a renter on a budget. Cup hooks and string it is!
Posted by Lara at February 3, 2005 06:11 AM
Comments
The year I lived in what was essentially a large closet in Virginia, I came up with a similar solution for hanging clothes in lieu of a closet. There was a window on one side of the room which had a curtain, so on the opposite cinder-brick wall I hung a matching curtain. I then tacked up some large nails and hung my one suit and dress shirts behind the curtain.
Classy.
Posted by: Mikebot at February 7, 2005 06:27 PM
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