What
is the one thing in your home that even if it appears that you have enough of
it, it never really is enough? Give up? STORAGE! I thought that the reason that
my old house was so cluttered was because we didn’t have enough space for
everything. Now we have more than enough space, but still not really any
storage solutions. Because of this, I have been scouring the interwebs for
ideas on how to combat the war against lacking storage.
Surprisingly,
there are tons of ideas and DIY sites and tutorials and videos and so much
more. The catch is: it all costs money! Some costs more than others, but it all
costs money. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a lot of money. So I am
rather limited on how opulent, how accessorized, and how high of quality I can go
with it.
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| Above the door shelf idea, taken from MarthaStewart.com. |
The first project that really
caught my eye was this idea for a shelf above the door that I have seen in
different books, but it was usually accompanied by shelves on either side of
it. In this picture taken from MarthaStewart.com, the shelf is by itself above
the door, and because it is organized and clean looking, it looks like it was
supposed to be there; not like someone ran out of room and decided to put a
shelf above a door... The fact that the accessories and containers are all in neutral, complimentary colors helps the eye travel over the display in its entirety, and
take in the whole display without focusing on one specific thing. If you were
to put different colors together in such a small space it would create a
cluttered and jarring effect and visually it would take up more space than it
really does. After a while it will become a nuisance and you would probably
either stop using it, or even take it down.
