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Making the Most of Storage
Whether you want to build a shelf or revise the entire layout of a room, Making the Most of Storage provides practical and ingenious ideas to help solve the problem of managing clutter.
Storage needs vary widely from household to household. The first chapter helps each reader determine individual storage requirements, the space available in the home, and style preferences.
Chapter 2 presents three different systems - free-standing, built-in, and modular - including many variations, from modern built-in units to antique furniture. The chapter also explores the storage potential of things such as blanket boxes, cutlery trays, and baskets, and suggests exciting ideas for customizing shelves, drawers, and cupboards.
The book then examines ways to maximize storage space room-by-room, from kitchens and living rooms to bedrooms and bathrooms. It also offers interesting ideas for children's rooms, attics, cellars, and workspaces. Each chapter includes advice on transforming existing architectural features such as alcoves, and shows how walls, shelves, racks, and hooks can all be adapted into valuable display areas for treasured possessions.
With over 90 color illustrations, Making the Most of Storage is a source of inspiration for storage and display, and a sensible guide to organized living.
Storage needs vary widely from household to household. The first chapter helps each reader determine individual storage requirements, the space available in the home, and style preferences.
Chapter 2 presents three different systems - free-standing, built-in, and modular - including many variations, from modern built-in units to antique furniture. The chapter also explores the storage potential of things such as blanket boxes, cutlery trays, and baskets, and suggests exciting ideas for customizing shelves, drawers, and cupboards.
The book then examines ways to maximize storage space room-by-room, from kitchens and living rooms to bedrooms and bathrooms. It also offers interesting ideas for children's rooms, attics, cellars, and workspaces. Each chapter includes advice on transforming existing architectural features such as alcoves, and shows how walls, shelves, racks, and hooks can all be adapted into valuable display areas for treasured possessions.
With over 90 color illustrations, Making the Most of Storage is a source of inspiration for storage and display, and a sensible guide to organized living.
- GenresNonfiction
80 pages, Hardcover
First published February 15, 1996
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August 31, 2020
Great ideas for ways to cram even more stuff into every room in your house.
Marie Kondō would flip her lid!
Marie Kondō would flip her lid!
May 5, 2011
Making the Most of Storage is full of practical, if commonsense advice. Unlike many organizing books, the writing here is natural and flows well. That means the advice is easier to follow. The other great offering of this book is that it takes into consideration that not all people who want to organize their homes have unlimited budgets for remodels and built-ins. Robertson is clear on the reality sorely missing from many decorating and organizing manuals: that the needs in our homes change as children age and adults move into different stages. Rather than locking function or design into a room, Robertson advises how to get the most function from a room and then repurpose storage systems as the needs of the family change. Her title is absolutely apt and this organizing book is great for lay-people exploring all of their design and organizing options.
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