Organisation ideas for a small home
Making the most of every corner of a small flat can help keep your home in order, giving you a more functional and practical home. Mercedes has some organisation and storage ideas to make life easier in your small flat. Get inspired and discover how to organise a small home with tips from this family.
1. Open your kitchen storage
You don't need to hide everything to organise your kitchen. Open storage can be both useful and decorative. For example, you can stack dishes and other cookware on a long shelf or in open boxes. This means you'll have everything you normally use when cooking close to hand.
2. Use your hallway's walls to create space
Don't allow your hallway to become wasted space. A full wall of TRONES shoe cabinets can add a lot of storage options to a narrow hallway to keep things in order. Our favourite shoe rack can do much more than just store shoes. Here are some more original ideas for using TRONES.
3. Fill those difficult corners
In a small home, every corners counts. Make the most of the small space under the stairs with storage solutions. Boxes and baskets can be used to organise stationery, while a low chest of drawers or a trunk is ideal for clearing items from the middle of a small space. You can also add a bench like the MACKAPÄR, which serves a joint function.
4. Customise your living room storage
You can make much better use of your living room shelf by adding boxes that can be removed. It combines open and closed storage solutions and includes diverse materials to create a unique and personal environment. Natural materials such as rattan, bamboo or cane can give a contemporary decorative touch, a trend in interior design that is going from strength to strength.
5. Organise your wardrobe with stackable boxes
Store clothes for other seasons in boxes and add labels to find out exactly what's in each one. Mercedes had a built-in wardrobe without doors in her bedroom. She added a few rails to hang clothes and arranged our stackable boxes with TJENA lids at the bottom of the wardrobe.
To hide the wardrobe, she added some curtains that you can customise and change according to whatever style you want to create in your bedroom each season. "I can give the room a new look just by changing the fabric," says Mercedes. .
6. An original children's room
Helping children find inspiration in their bedroom. Emilia, Mercedes' 6-year-old daughter, has shelves and boxes around her desk for all her craft materials and toys. By using boxes and baskets, everything has its place, and the small bedroom is much tidier and has more space for Emilia to play. What's more, Emilia is the one who decorates her bedroom walls with her own drawings.
"I've never lived in a large house, so I learnt to store things smartly. We fit everything we need into the space we have, just like my mother did", says Mercedes.
If you also live in a small home with few square metres and you have children, here are some tricks to organise toys when you have little space. And we can also show you the changes that Olga has made in her living room now that she's become a mum:
We are delighted to see our customers use our products creatively. Why not try being creative too? But do remember, any modifications or changes that you make to IKEA products prevent them from being resold or used for their original use, and so voiding IKEA product warranties and your right of return.
