A place for everything and
everything has a place
There is no doubt, our lives
are increasingly more stressful.
We pack in so much into our
working week, and then like to
play hard at weekends to make
the most of the short reprieve
before returning to work.
Throw in a wedding into the mix and
it’s a whole different level of stress!
However, once you’re back from the
honeymoon, and the adrenaline from the
most important event of your lives has
dissipated, it’s time to get your house
back in order, back to normality and put
away all those wedding gifts.
Being organised is key to making
everything work seamlessly. Our homes
as well as our work spaces need to be
clear and uncluttered, so our minds can
focus on what is needed.
One of the biggest expenses in our
lifetime, aside from weddings, is our
home. Putting aside the mortgage and
general everyday bills, the home is where
we spend most of our wages.
There has been much coverage in the
press over the past few years on the
costs of moving house. “Improve – don’t
move” has been many people’s motto
and rather than incurring all the moving
costs such as removal company and
stamp duty, spending time on upgrading
your current home and making
92
improvements is seen as more beneficial
and will increase the value of your home
when you do eventually decide to move.
Many homeowners, with growing
families, will bemoan the lack of space
as the home fills with more ‘things’.
Many people work from home nowadays
and this will also take up space with
office furniture and shelving for office
equipment and paperwork.
Starting off with the bedroom, hinge
wardrobes inevitably take up more room
than a sliding door option. Add to this
mirrored sliding doors and this creates
the feeling of more space in what could
be a fairly small area. If the insides of
the wardrobes have all the necessary
storage solutions, again, the space can
be optimised to put away as much of
your ‘stuff’ as possible. Nobody wants
to go to bed after a hard day at work in
a room full of clutter. Tidy room tidy mind!
Offices are taking over areas of our
homes, as many of us spend more
time trying to achieve a good work /
life balance. With children at home, this
can inevitably create added stress with
important paperwork and expensive
office equipment at the peril of small
people! Being able to hide this away
and create clean, tidy working space
that is hidden from others is the perfect
solution to helping you with that work /
life balance.
Being able to shut away our daily
cluttered life at a moment’s notice is
possible if organised in the correct
manner. How many times has an
unexpected guest turned up when
the house is a tip? Being able to hide
everything away quickly is ideal and
helps to take the stress out of theses
occasions.
Over the years the home storage
solutions market has created some
innovative and frankly fantastic solutions
to help us all in our homes. Whether
you’re wanting to tidy up your current
home and have a place for everything, or
if you’re looking to sell your house, one
of the biggest pitfalls for potential buyers
is lack of storage space, particularly for
families. Investing a little bit of time and
money in creating storage space in those
tricky spaces can make the difference
between a sale or not.
Below are some examples of areas where
a little bit of storage solutions can help:
• Bespoke drawers under your staircase
to make use of that sometimes
cluttered and ‘lost’ space are a fantastic
way to store shoes, coats, bags etc.
• Large sliding doors throughout the
length of a hallway can hide all the
cleaning equipment, scooters and kids’
school paraphernalia.
• A section of a room dedicated to office
space, hidden behind a seamless
sliding door.
• Spare pull down bed, hidden behind a
wardrobe sliding door. This can create a
spare bedroom instantly.
B
y Greg Bradley
Gapsol utions.co.uk