How to Reclaim Space in Your Home

Looking to increase the usable space in your home? In this blog, we’ll explore how you can reclaim space through decluttering, storage organisation and more.

Let’s get right to it!

Introduce New Built-in Storage

First and foremost, you should consider having built-in storage added to your home. This can act as a great way to free up other spaces in your home that are currently clogged with clutter and stored items.

Of course, what type of built-in storage might work for your home will depend on what storage approach is suitable for the items you want to store away. Other factors to consider are where built-in storage can be feasibly added (which may in turn limit what types of built-in storage are viable options) and your budget.

Here are some notable built-in storage ideas to consider:

Under bed storage
Storage built-in under the stairs
New wardrobe storage
Fresh cupboards for your kitchen
New bedroom cupboards

In general, a professional should add built-in storage to a property. Some options may be suited for a DIY approach like introducing cupboards to your kitchen. However, only proceed if you can verify it’s safe to do so DIY and be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully including any safety steps.

Other Forms of Decluttering

Along with considering having new built-in storage added to your home, you should look into other decluttering solutions.

For one, you may want to store items away in your loft space if there is enough room and it is safe to do so. Beyond that, when decluttering, it’s worth considering whether there are any items you’d like to give to throw out or give to charity.

To declutter, it’s a good idea to have a plan and break down the process into manageable tasks. On the one hand, you’ll want to consider whether you can perform this work in one day or if it might be best to spread it over two days (e.g. a Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend or two different days from separate weekends).

Along with that, you’ll want to use binliners to store items and very carefully label them (ideally, using different colour binliners can help make the labelling even clearer). Then, of course, treble check before disposing of a binliner if one is meant for the rubbish.

You may want to have decluttering binliners for the following reasons:

To store some binliners in your loft or elsewhere
For items you wish to donate to charity
If you want to throw out some other items whether to recycle or/and otherwise

Move Fixtures and Fittings Around

Another way to reclaim space in your home is to move fixtures and fittings around. To do so, you’ll want to consider how to best achieve this so that when fixtures/fittings are changed about or some even removed entirely, the new arrangement will be aesthetically pleasing as well as practical.

This approach can save you money as an alternative to having more storage added and save you time by potentially reducing the need to declutter. That said, the latter may still be needed to a similar degree to achieve the results you’re looking for.

Additional Storage Options

Along with the built-in storage ideas discussed earlier, you’ll also want to keep in mind some other methods of providing added storage in your home to reclaim usable space!