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Squeezing the Most Storage Out of Your Cabinets

Are you looking to pick up the clutter around your home? Most homeowners often complain about a lack of ample storage to accommodate all their items while maintaining the aesthetics of a room. What they don’t realize is that there’s much more storage than meets the eye.

Storage space often comes at a premium! If adding more cabinets is not an option, it’s essential to make the best of the existing space. It’s possible to improve the home organization and increase storage space by tinkering with the custom cabinets. How so? Here are simple adjustments to improve your storage space drastically.

Useful Cabinet Organization Ideas

Edgewood Cabinetry cabinetsModify Double Door Cabinets: Most double door cabinets have a divider (center stile) between the doors. The stile takes up valuable storage space that could otherwise make the cabinet more spacious and accessible. Possible ideas to get rid of the divider include detaching it vertically and fixing it one of the doors (i.e., creating a dummy stile that opens with the door) or installing new double doors that meet.

Organize and Manage Wires: Having wires and cable lying around haphazardly is a painful eyesore – not to mention the risk of tripping accidents and health issues due to dust bunnies! When it comes to wire management, the trick lies in creativity. Think out-of-the-box to find a solution that works best for your space. For items that are rarely unplugged, such as desktops, consider threading the cables along the underside of a wooden surface. Outlets for highly portable devices such as mobile phones should be easily accessible – inside a drawer, on the sidewall, or a countertop.

Sometimes the Places You’d Never Think of are The Best

Cabinet Space Above the Refrigerator: Most pre-made overhead cabinets above the fridge are either too small or too deep for easy access. This odd size and location lead to a waste of valuable storage space. Consider removing the small unusable cabinet and installing new cabinetry that encases the refrigerator. It is more aesthetically, desirable, and easy to reach. Another great idea is to use vertical dividers for the storage of kitchen appliances such as plates or trays

Keep Your Garbage Can Out of Sight: Garbage cans are a necessity in any kitchen – but that does not mean they’re allowed to make the kitchen messy. Stash unsightly trash cans in a ‘makeshift trash drawer’ under your 36-inch countertop drawer.

For ways on how to make the most of your space with custom designed custom cabinets, contact Edgewood Cabinetry.  Call 919-339-7300 for planning your custom cupboards.

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Solution to Small Spaces

The Perfect Solution To Small Spaces

Trying to find the perfect solution to small spaces isn’t always easy. After all, you have awkward sizes to work with and always more stuff than seems to fit.

Custom designed storage solutions help you create the perfect option every time. From designing for extra shelving in mind above your kitchen cabinets to accessories to divide a large drawer, small spaces don’t have to suffer from no storage.

Often times, pre-fabricated solutions just don’t work. They’re too bulky and end up giving you less room than before. Before you give up, try a few of these options to make your small space larger.

Turn Seating Into Storage

One of the more popular solutions for small spaces is to turn your seating into storage. Many ottomans double as extra storage, but did you know you can also design chairs, benches and tables with storage space? For instance, a bar chair in your kitchen might sit tall enough to have a few small shelves below the seat. A bench with comfy cushions works as a sofa and storage solution.

For a few ideas for your own design, Better Homes & Gardens lists 14 creative ways to turn your furniture into storage.

Floating Cabinets/Shelves

You don’t always have space for cabinets that sit on your floor, but what about that open area above your sofa or behind the toilet? A floating cabinet can fit in almost any space as long as you have a little room on your wall. Consider a series of smaller cabinets or blocks for storing books, toiletries, games or anything else you want.

Of course, floating shelves also help to maximize space in small areas. The great thing about cabinets and blocks is they also double as shelving.

Custom Sizing

Want traditional cabinets and bookshelves? No problem. Custom sizing is the best solution for small spaces. For instance, if you have a tiny kitchen, use thinner cabinets and maximize your space with accessories. Need inspiration? See our post 8 Tricks For Doubling The Space In Your Cabinets to see how organizers, baskets and other solutions make even small cabinets seem large.

Use Vertical Spaces

How often do you just look at the horizontal spacing for maximizing your space? While typically you store things horizontally on shelves or in cabinets, think about all the vertical spacing you’re missing out on. For instance, the kitchen featured in this post’s image doesn’t have to stop with just cabinets.

Frequently used pots could hang on the side of the upper cabinets. Floating shelves on the sides of the cabinets near the window work great for herbs or collectibles. Even the brick wall could be used for hanging a mop and broom.

Think vertically and you’ll be amazed at how much more space you have. For instance, if you want a bookcase, consider having shelves that don’t sit flush with the door. Leave a few inches of space and you could add file organizers to the inside of the doors for storing important documents, comic books, remotes or anything else you want.

Remove Doors

Doors aren’t usually a bad thing, but when it comes to small spaces, they can get in the way quickly. Maybe you’d love to have a custom-designed bench with drawers in built-in. However, the door leading to the next room makes it impossible for you to have a bench as long as you need. Take down the door and replace it with a decorative curtain. As long as you still have room to walk, it’s the perfect solution to small spaces.

Separate Rooms With Shelving

For small spaces that blend several rooms into one, consider dividing your rooms with storage. Floor to ceiling shelving helps you not only add space, but separate your rooms. They work as walls and can be relatively thin or wide enough to hold anything you need. For a more decorative option, staggered shelving gives you a variety of different size shelves and it looks great too.

Ready to design your own space-saving solutions? Contact us today to find out how we can help turn your small spaces into larger ones.

Image: Tomwsulcer / Wikimedia Commons

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Designing a Craft Room: Using Cabinetry and Storage Devices to Make Supplies Easily Accessible

Have you thought about designing a craft room in your home this fall as a place to do some of your sideline artistic projects? Many of us have a dream of creating a room where we can go off and be by ourselves to be creative. Why not make it a reality while brainstorming for ideas on how to make it organized?

When designing a craft room, having everything organized to suit your own work style requires you working closely with the designer and builder. We can do that for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry LLC where specialized projects are our specialty. With our ability to create superior cabinetry and shelf space, we can help you design your craft room so everything is within easy reach.

Designing Your Work Table

What surface you use to do most of your creative work should be your first focus. While it can be a regular desk, we can design something that integrates storage and cabinet space so you can have easy accessibility to supplies. We know that when we work on our creative cabinetry projects, we don’t want to have to walk clear across the room to find a tool or other item. When you’re engrossed in a creative project, you should have all the tools you need within easy reach.

Utilizing special cabinetry or shelving at the front of your desk, you can reach for creative materials without even having to leave your chair. This can include enclosed storage drawers within your work table so you don’t have to have all your supplies sitting out in the open.

Nearby Shelving for Storage or Hanging Supplies

A craft room should have other storage units around the room so you can find other supplies you may need later. These can be open display shelves to grab items in a hurry. It can also mean shelves that let you hang things like ribbon spools or perhaps rolls of paper. Having convenient places to hang supplies for easy accessibility will help you stay focused on your project without getting distracted hunting down for something you misplaced.

Stylized Storage Devices

We can customize any type of cabinetry or shelving you have in mind. You might have to get creative in order to store certain items so they aren’t scattered around your work table. We can create ample space for you to place storage boxes full of art supplies. Or, we can build customized storage devices that help you store small items that might easily get lost without full organization.

Even wall niches can come in handy to place certain items. These can also be a place to display some of your creative works of art for visitors to see later.

Our design will help you get so organized that you won’t have to worry about being embarrassed bringing people in. While many people might expect a craft room to look messy with supplies everywhere, they’ll be surprised when they see how organized you are with attractive cabinetry and shelving besides.

Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can start working with you this fall on designing a craft room you’ve always dreamed of having. It’s time to do something good for yourself and create a room that helps you focus on creative time to escape the mad world outside your doors and walls.

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