24th March 2010
The amount you have to spend on space saving furniture is bound to affect your final decision on what to buy but, regardless of how much of a budget you have to play with, there are other decisions that need to be made: firstly, do you want to buy those t...
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23rd March 2010
As a person living in a small home myself, I can appreciate the problems of knowing where to put what. I think the worst scenario is when you are downsizing for whatever reason and have to decide what stays and what has to go. I think, in these circumstan...
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23rd March 2010
Small bedrooms often pose a problem. After all, we all need to have somewhere to sleep and somewhere to store clothes and, in the case of a child, somewhere to play. The most obvious space saving tip would really to install bunk beds - but then the wise p...
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23rd March 2010
If you are living in a small home, one of the things you need to consider very carefully is where you can economize on space. One of the things that tends to come up time after time is the amount of space a traditional staircase takes - and the amount of ...
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23rd March 2010
I am one of those cooks who uses a lot of herbs and spices on a regular basis when cooking. One of the things I get really fed up about when I am cooking is trying to find the ingredients I need. The trouble with having a small kitchen is that there is no...
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23rd March 2010
Unless you are able to afford to live in a large home with adequate storage, the rest of us spend an inordinate amount of time searching for the perfect space saving solutions. Too many of us resort to living amongst clutter because we are surrounding by ...
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23rd March 2010
Microwaves have come a long way since those very early models that hit the domestic market in the mid-70s following their development by Amana in 1967. You certainly wouldn't have wanted the very first microwave models in your home - there was certainly n...
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23rd March 2010
Obviously, if you have a good sized kitchen with plenty of cupboard space then you are one of the lucky ones. Many of us, however, live in tiny properties with kitchens that really are too small to work comfortably in and which feature far too few storage...
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23rd March 2010
When you are planning your kids' rooms you will probably have to take into account space - or lack of it! Few of us have rooms that extend the width or depth of the house and, for those who do, I am sure you will come up with decorating problems, albeit d...
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23rd March 2010
Clutter is a pretty sure-fire way of the limited space of your already diminutive home appearing to be smaller than ever so, what better way could there be of instantly making your minuscule home look bigger than to gather together some space saving ideas...
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23rd March 2010
Naturally, the first and foremost thing you are going to have in mind when shopping for space saving high chairs is your baby's safety. Babies and young children are notorious wrigglers so, obviously, the last thing you want is for your baby to fall out o...
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23rd March 2010
If you are going to install a heater, you obviously need to obtain the best one for the job. Generally, a heater's effectiveness tends to be reduced in an open plan home or where a room is open with access to a stairway. Other reasons for a heater not wor...
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23rd March 2010
Few of us have sufficient space for all our storage needs and storing clothes is no exception. Most people tend to use hangers for skirts and trousers and other hangers for shirts, getting by cramming them into crowded closets from which they emerge wrink...
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23rd March 2010
Even if you don't want to spend a lot of money on furniture, there are inordinate space saving furniture ideas that needn't cost you a fortune and which work very well in homes where space is in short supply. Companies such as Cost Plus World Market or th...
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23rd March 2010
How functional is your bathroom? Obviously, if your bathroom is particularly small you may not have a choice in making any alterations, but bathroom furniture aside, is there anything you can do to make your bathroom work better for you? Assuming you are ...
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