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Are your closets and garage overflowing with stuff? Are your kitchen cabinets stuffed to capacity? You don't need to spend a lot of money to find new storage space in your home. You just need these clutter-busting strategies from our organizational gurus to organize every room of your house.
The trouble with those shower caddies that hang from the showerhead pipe is that you have only one showerhead. To get more space for your bath potions, hang another caddy on a cabinet knob. With a No. 8-32 hanger screw, you can screw the knob into a stud. To fasten to drywall, use a screw-in drywall anchor along with the hanger screw.
Electrical junction boxes can hold a lot more than wiring. You can nail or screw them to just about anything anywhere. In the shop, they're great for those tools that can't hang on hooks—tape measures, markers, chisels, etc. Plastic boxes come in various sizes and shapes and cost 75¢ to $3 each.
An unfinished wall or ceiling isn't an eyesore; it's a storage opportunity. With 15 bucks' worth of shelf hardware and 1x4s, you can pack 8 ft. or more of storage into one wall stud cavity.
For about $2 per ft., you can turn ceiling joist space into storage space with wire shelving, though we discovered that this is a bad place to store basketballs.
Don't toss out those leftover scraps of electrical cable. They let you bundle up and neatly store all kinds of stuff. To hang up or carry your bundle, twist a loop in the cable.
Every kitchen needs a slot for flat cookware like cookie sheets and pizza pans. The simplest way to create these slots is to add extra shelves spaced a few inches apart. Since most cabinets have adjustable shelves, you just have to pick up a bag of shelf supports at a home center ($3) and cut new shelves from plywood or particleboard. Or make a vertical niche like the one shown here. Just add a plywood divider, drill holes for shelf supports and shorten the existing adjustable shelf.
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.
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January 09, 8:02 AM [GMT -5]
Tip #11: Get rid of some of the clutter!
October 27, 4:16 PM [GMT -5]
Lee9.... That is very good point and one that needs to be adressed. 1. You can add cabinet door locks that has a magnet you run over the face of the door to unlock it. The magnet can be stored high up so the child can't reach it. Also.. 2. Get some Mr. Yuck stickers and teach the child that when he/she sees anything with these stickers on it, leave it alone and tell Mommy or Daddy. Anything with these stickers on it will hurt them, and make them sick. There is no such thing as inconvenience when it comes to child safety.
September 26, 6:34 PM [GMT -5]
I got nervous twitches as I looked at the poisons and cleaning products stored under the sink in the efficient storage bins. They are waiting for children to inspect them.
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