Live in a tiny pad like me?

Hello fellow space savers,

And I don’t mean “space saver” in a Whovian saving the world sense… I mean literally saving as much space as you can by adorning your home, flat, apartment or shoebox with the cleverest little things you can find. Well Alas, need you look no more for fab tips on utilising space? NO! Here I stand, well sit, before you promising to scour the internet and magazines to find brilliant ways to turn your teeny tiny peeky pokey little one bedroom apartment into a lovely home for you, the most important person in your life.

So far I have found three major tips, these are:

Mirrors

This mirror is beautiful and is available from www.mirror-shop.co.uk

As suggested by Messynessychic.com, they explain that mirrors are a great way to introduce more light into a room, which seems obvious once you think about it. By placing a mirror on a wall opposite it will essentially double the amount of natural light in the room. I have seen this work in a shared house I used to live in that had a long, narrow and dark hallway, but if you left the shower room door open, the mirror on the opposite wall illuminated the hallway and making it feel much less like a creepy allyway, with weird people and much more like the hallway to my room but the weird people were still there…basically it gave that space a nice glow.

So in my new place, a basement flat with a large bay window which is the ONLY window apart from the back and front door, I think I will be trying the mirrors on the opposite wall idea as I know that it could get rather gloomy in that little place especially as winter draws in.

Clever Storage

Clever storage seems like a rather abstract concept, and not clever as in can sovle problems of the algebraic variety but can solve problems as being more than one thing, for example a bed and a storage place for shoes clothes ect, removing the need for a set of drawers, you get me? Other really clever storage ideas I have seen are:

1)      Removing the need for a standalone full length mirror by having one on or in your wardrobe, which many now come with, also keeping a “jewellery dress” is a fab idea as this eliminates the need to have a surface to place your beautiful jewellery box in plain sight of a window, like my place as everywhere in the main room can be seen from the one window… and it’s a big ass window too. You can find your own jewellery dress on eBay! 

And it will stop the tangled necklaces!

2)      Vacuum pack your clothes and linen. Even though these products are usually hanging around with the granny slippers and apple corers on JML, they actually are amazing and will keep your fabric items free from mould, which is a biggie in many of the places I've lived.

Vacuum bags available on eBay

3)      Under bed storage really is the way to go when there is space available under the bed, it’s not a space that you would usually occupy with anything other than junk and mouldy plates anyway, so why not pop over to eBay and check out under bed storage boxes?

Vertical space

Make sure you utilise space vertically too! Big bare walls are no use to a student needing a place to store and stack books. Shelves, shelves and more shelves! Book cases too if, like me, you’re not allowed put up shelves… and book cases are brilliant because where there are book cases there are books!

 

Use your vertical space guys! its there just waiting to be used!

Ofcourse these are just the tip of the iceberg that is small space living and as I put these ideas to the test so I will write about them and what I like and dislike about their practicality and place in my home.

Take care kittens!

Claire xx