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Storage furniture is essential if you want to avoid too much clutter. Dedicated storage furniture, including chests of drawers, bookshelves and TV units, comes in a wide choice of sizes and styles. And if you want to make the most of your space, multi-functional storage furniture is stylish and dual purpose.
All too often, storage furniture is an afterthought, which is a shame, as it’s the perfect opportunity to combine style with functionality. Well thought out storage will make a room feel less cluttered, more spacious and – because everything has its place and you can find things with ease – can actually be life enhancing. Look out for cleverly designed furniture that looks fabulous and will work hard for you. When you find it, it will serve you well for years to come.
Remember, the function of storage furniture is to give you more space, not less. The trick here is to think about the difference between short-term and long-term storage. Anything that you use rarely (a few times a year rather than a few times a week) should ideally be stored somewhere out of sight, such as in your loft or garage.
If you reduce what you store in your most-used rooms, your whole home will feel lighter, brighter and more spacious – and tidying will be easier too!
These storage units, traditionally for cutlery and crockery, are stylish, practical and versatile. No longer associated with just one room, a sideboard can sit beautifully in a hallway, serve as a TV stand in the living room and, of course, store glasses and tableware in the dining room.
TOP TIP: For smaller rooms, choose a shallow sideboard, or replace it with a compact console table.
Most of us already have bookshelves in our homes. These days, they’re not just for books but can be used as multipurpose storage units where you can display decorative objects, photographs, and even media equipment.
TOP TIP: Tall, narrow shelves are ideal for awkward spaces, alcoves, or between other pieces of furniture.
Used for displaying everything from ornaments and books to glasses and vases, the display cabinet is the perfect item of storage furniture for tableware in the kitchen or dining room and for anything you want in the living room. Choose between modern and traditional designs and wood and metal or ultra-modern high gloss cabinets. Some include integral lighting, to show off your precious mementoes.
TV and media stands are no longer simply functional living room storage units to house your TV, but are well-considered pieces of storage furniture in their own right. Modern TV stands are available in a variety of finishes, some with drawers, and some shaped to fit awkward corners. Many are perfect for all types of media storage too.
The ultimate in dedicated home storage. Choose a traditional design for a characterful look, or maximise your bedroom storage potential with semi-fitted wardrobes cleverly designed so there’s a place for everything.
TOP TIP: In a smaller bedroom choose a slider wardrobe or a wardrobe with bi-fold doors to save on floor space.
It’s all about saving space these days, and if you’re in to ‘vertical folding’ your clothes, a chest of drawers is a must-have. Most new chests of drawers now have smooth opening, soft-closing drawers. And they’re not just for the bedroom, they can be useful in the study for paperwork, or in the hall for storing hats, gloves and whatever else you might need when you leave the house.
If you need more than a table by your bedside, bedside cabinets with drawers or cupboards (or both) are a must and are ideal for storing everything close at hand. If you like the coordinated look, find a range of bedroom furniture you like and match your bedside tables, chest of drawers and even bed frame.
For space saving storage in the bedroom a storage bed is a must, whether a divan bed with drawers or an ottoman bed where the mattress lifts with ease to reveal plenty of hidden bedroom storage.
A place to sit, an impromptu coffee table or simply an ottoman footstool with storage for magazines, remote controls or whatever you want. No wonder everybody loves the ultimately versatile storage footstools.
They sit at the heart of the living room, so why not put them to use to store things you’d like to have close at hand. Coffee tables with shelves, coffee tables with drawers and chest coffee tables with storage all make sure you can put your hand on that magazine, remote control or puzzle book with ease.
Last but not least, storage sofas are increasingly popular in this space-conscious age. Why not make the most of your chaise sofa or corner sofa’s roomy chaise end and use its hidden storage to keep throws, family games and general living room clutter out of sight?
You can find storage furniture in a wide choice of styles to suit your decor. Here are 5 popular styles of storage furniture.
Traditional storage furniture is wooden, hardwearing and beautiful to look at. The beauty of wood is that every piece is different, with its own particular colour and individual wood grain – traditional oak bookshelves or an oak chest of drawers are timeless choices, many with lovely detailed touches such as carving, panelling, ornate handles or overhanging tops.
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Storage may be practical, but that does not mean it can’t be beautiful and even luxurious too. Think marble topped sideboards, mirrored chests of drawers, semi-fitted slider wardrobes with fabulously glossy finishes and stunning contemporary bedside cabinets with sleek wood veneers.
In that wonderful combination of metal and wood, industrial storage furniture is both useful and incredibly stylish – the perfect choice for the modern home. Choose a cool coffee table with storage or funky industrial style shelving in the living room, a wood and metal sideboard for the dining room or industrial bedside cabinets for the bedroom.
Dutch furniture company Habufa make exciting contemporary industrial style storage furniture with very little waste.
Storage furniture with that mid-century modern look is very in vogue, especially statement sideboards with tapered legs and inset handles. Mid-century furniture suits Scandi and Nordic and almost every contemporary style of décor. You can find bedside cabinets, chests of drawers, display cabinets and coffee tables with storage all in the ever popular mid-century style.
The Originals range of British furniture makers Ercol typifies the mid-century modern style, and their contemporary storage furniture continues the elegant, functional tradition.
With their rustic good looks, modern country style storage furniture combines classic elements with a fresh, contemporary feel.
Furnitureland has a large choice of affordable storage furniture that’s as useful as it is stylish.
As with all furniture, make sure you measure the space available and then all three dimensions of the storage furniture. If you have a smaller room, look for shallower sideboards and bookshelves, and multifunctional furniture with storage such as ottoman footstools and coffee tables with storage.
In smaller rooms, to maximise storage, choose storage furniture that’s tall and narrow that fits into alcoves or tight corners. In larger rooms, you can afford the luxury of lower and wider storage furniture.
When you are measuring your storage furniture, also take into account drawers and doors being open, and make sure that there is still enough available space. In a bedroom, you don’t want wardrobe doors to hit the edge of a bed, for example. Equally, you want to be able to open drawers fully without space being too tight.
Don’t overcrowd a room with overly large storage furniture. There are plenty of compact options that will give you storage but not take up too much space.
Read the latest storage furniture trends and design tips on The Home of Inspiration, our very own online design hub.
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Q: I have no room in my living room for storage furniture, where can I hide the clutter?
A: This is where multifunctional furniture comes into its own. A corner sofa can suit smaller rooms as it uses every inch of space, no empty corners – and some of these have hidden storage in the chaise end. You could also buy an ottoman footstool that could serve as extra seating, storage and even a coffee table when needed (using a tray of course). Equally, if you can squeeze one in, consider a trunk coffee table or a coffee table with drawers – a great place to hide all those bits and pieces.
Q: What’s best, storage furniture or fitted storage?
A: Both are good, it depends on what makes most sense for your home. There’s a lot to be said for built-in furniture, but the advantage of storage furniture is that it can move home with you, or can be moved to another room if you decide to change things around (children grow up and families often change the uses of rooms over time). The advantage of semi-fitted wardrobes is that they have the appearance and space-saving properties of fitted wardrobes, but can be sold, or taken with you if you move.
Q: My spare room is filled with mismatched storage furniture, and now it just feels like a dumping ground. How can I clear space to make it into a proper spare room and den without losing storage?
A: There are a couple of options. The first is to be honest with yourself about what you are storing and perhaps throw some stuff out, or store it in a loft or garage instead. Then keep what’s left in your favourite pieces of the storage furniture but with more floor space around it. The second option is to start again with your storage and store everything in coordinated bedroom furniture such as semi-fitted wardrobes or tall chests of drawers. You could invest in a spare bed that has ottoman or drawer storage to make the very most of your space.
Q: My other half is very messy and their side of the bedroom is a nightmare, what storage could help?
A: Make sure your partner has a good, large bedside cabinet with drawers for smaller clutter, and perhaps bookshelves near their side of the bed for bedtime reading, magazines or whatever they keep lying around. If they are still leaving things lying around one solution could be an ottoman chest at the foot of the bed. Just chuck their stuff in to it, and hopefully they’ll know where to look when they’ve lost something again!
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