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10 tips on how to maximize space in your home

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If you often feel that much of your home’s potential is neglected, you better take action. You can maximize your home according to your needs and imagination, so there are plenty of possibilities. Here are 10 tips to maximize the space in your home.

1. Keep the floor clean! Using the existing floor space is essential if you want to have more space in your home. Bigger the floor space = bigger the entire room feels.

2. Define the center of each room. Keep the open space in the middle of the room whole and build the rest of the interior around it. Central focal points seem to “radiate” spaciousness. Moreover, you can move freely in it.

3. Attic space is practical. So why don’t you use it? You can store a great deal of your things there.

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4. Get rid of unnecessary stuff. Old items that you no longer use should be out – you can’t afford to keep things that only collect dust. Donate them, bargain-sale them or give them away.

5. Connect your living spaces. Merge rooms and you’ll be surprised by the result – for example try to make the living room, kitchen and eating space open to each other. It will allow every room to “borrow” space from the other and look larger.

6. “Multi” is the right way to go. Multifunctional and multipurpose furniture saves a lot of  space, the extending tables and sofas are the perfect example. You can also consider using a chest as a coffee table, buy a bed with drawers, and all kinds of folding furniture you can easily stow away.

7. Put more stuff on the walls. Shelves, hidden cupboards, cabinets and other appropriate furniture will allow your room to shine with neatness.

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8. Make the most of the storage space. It means that you can add extra shelves and smart closet systems that put to a useful purpose the empty space pockets that often appear in wardrobes and cabinets.

9. Don’t forget about the bathroom. It’s also a part of the home, isn’t it? Shelves, various stands and compact fittings and fixtures can make the bathroom more functional and appealing.

10. Take advantage of unusable areas through built-ins. Use all nooks and niches for storing purposes and save space normally occupied by furniture.

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  1. Karl Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Hi Your proposal No 3 – is dangerous and perilous. These trusses are not designed to store so much load. Your idea is the best way to find the ceiling on the floor – and what happens in this case with children, Grandma’s, cats, dogs. You must delete this and you must give a warning to your readers to do not this.

    Karl

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    March 18th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

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  3. Gergana Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Hi Karl, thanks for the comment. I don’t think idea #3 is dangerous, at least for houses in good condition. A large number of the attics are suitable for living, so I guess the beams are calculated to bear great loadings. If the house is constructed properly and if the materials are processed well I think it will be safe enough to put some boxes with old clothes, linen and books. We did not say “carry up your entire house on the attic”, we just gave an idea for some extra storage space.

    Best regards

  4. Karl Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    @Gergana
    Some years ago I was CEO of an Truss Company. So I have a little bit knowledge of these things. There are a lot of kinds of attics, and indeed there are some designed for living in the roof. The attics in your picture not. Remember, that the attics must be very cheep, so the engineers are calculating with the minimum of load and with the minimum of security. Usually the bottom chord is only calculated for one man in the middle. You see the small nailplate in the truss on your picture? You must not calculate, you can feel, that this small plate is too small for this load. And books are very heavy. Ask an engineer!

    ..sorry – I am living in Germany and my english is always under construction.

  5. Gergana Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Well that’s just not right. What if you have to go and do some repair work on the roof? I don’t know what security coefficients the engineers in your company worked with, but if the truss is not capable to bear an extra 20kg for example, I think it’s good for nothing. Moreover, as far as I know wood houses are calculated with security coefficient 3-5 (which is more than enough). Well I guess that depends on the company and the engineers. Maybe you are right and we have to put a note “not suitable for wood houses with weak trusses”.

  6. Petar Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    @Karl
    Dear Karl,
    The sugetion given by the author is only an idea of what can be done. It will not work for everyone of corse. The tips are here to help anybody realize that free space can be found everywhere. Those are not final poka-yoke solutions for everybody. If someone cannot understand that and is being hurt by doing it wrong, probably he deserved it. Please excuse me for my english.
    Regards,
    Petar

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