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If modern life is defined by anything, it’s stuff. We all have a lot of it, and we will acquire more of it. The moment you move into your first grown-up apartment, you start to experience firsthand how stuff just creeps into your living space, eating up your shelves and your drawers and eventually spilling out into unseemly piles on the floor, or migrating to expensive and inconvenient storage units.
And the way things are going economically right now, buying or renting a larger house is probably not in the cards for most of us, which means you’re going to have to get clever in terms of finding ways to store all that stuff. If you have some extra floor space, there are plenty of furniture pieces you can buy, from freestanding cabinets to ottomans that double as storage cubes. but what if you’ve already used every possible inch of your tiny home and it still doesn’t feel like enough?
The good news is that no matter how small your space is, there are almost certainly ways to magically create storage space out of thin air. Here are some of the easiest and smartest ways to cram more stuff into your space.
