To ask for your amazing box room solutions?

[Islands81]

Poor dd2 drew the short straw and has the tiniest box room in the world. We’ve been here 5 years and I’m currently in the process of binning/donating pretty much all the stuff she had that she never plays with (12 bin bags and counting!).

She refuses to sleep in her high up bed anymore because she once saw a spider (she’s being assessed for ASD and gets a bed in her bonnet about stuff) , so at her request I’ve now bought her a day bed, which has drawers and a pull out trundle underneath. So the big bed is going which is going to create a storage nightmare.

She still has a fuck ton of stuff she claims she can’t part with which is in my room at the moment. Toys, organised into big storage boxes, books, games, the biggest hamster cage in the world, sparkly bags and all that shit. Currently her clothes are not in her room and I can’t see that changing. Where the feck am I going to put all this stuff?

I’ve included a pic so you can see my problem. Please don’t judge the mess (it’s a work in progress!) or the hideous pink walls (she chose them a few years ago and they’re going).

Please share any box room storage miracles that you have!

A thin billy bookcase might fit at the end of the bed that can be used for storage and books.

She does love it! Not finished yet but it’s so nice for her to have a room she can hang out in for the first time in her life.

I can’t fit a normal billy bookcase in that gap as it’s about 3cm too narrow, but I’m thinking I might get this and put it against the back wall in the right hand corner. Going to get the cabinets and shelves up and see what I think then.
www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/bookcases/gnedby-shelving-unit-white-art-40277143/

Thank you for the thread, Islands. I really need to do this with DD's room too...

We got a narrower bookcase from Argos similar to this one

www.argos.co.uk/product/6092122

Didn’t mean narrower meant only 20 cm deep!

Ooh that’s interesting @murinae, that probably would fit in the gap. Would be easier than putting shelves up. I was going to put the wall cupboard up that end but that could go to the left of the window instead.

Update - am getting there! Bought the shelves from Argos that @murinae suggested and they fit perfectly :)

Got the wall cabinet up and the little bedside table which also fits perfectly.

Got some over door hooks for dressing gown etc, and have started putting the book racks up. Got three more but the paint is still drying.

Miss Bitey (the hamster) is in situ. Built the kallax then realised that it was going to be too deep to fit in that gap and be able to pull the boxes out, so I’ve sold that and bought some wall mounted shelves which are coming tomorrow.

My youngest has a really tiny room, to the extent that it needs a 2ft6 bed. A normal single is 3ft wide. The difference those 6 inches makes is tremendous. We managed to find a mid sleeper on line that is 2ft 6. Underneath are two chest of drawers.
However the radiator got in the way and there are two windows as it's a tiny corner room. We had to chop a leg off the bed and make a bracket to ensure we could get the bed to fit.
His desk is actually a laptop table from Ikea and we have hacked some Ikea bookcases to make them fit. The problem with small spaces is that standard furniture will not fit or if it does fit, it dominates.

OP your DD must love her new room. You have turned very small cluttered room into a fantastic bright and airy space which actually appears bigger then before with 'just' a bed in it.

Looks amazing! Thanks for the update.

Looks fab!

Thank you, I think it’s actually the nicest room in the house now! Dd1 (14) came in earlier, looked around and said ‘I’m jealous’, although I’m not allowed to tell dd2 that. She loves hanging out in there. Couldn’t have done it without the help on here though, thank you so much for the suggestions everyone.

See now you have to decorate the rest of the house to match DD2 bedroom .

I know 😭. Watch out for my next thread: help me sort out my shitty little bathroom.

Ah, what a great result!

I’m still looking for a bed for my son’s room. I want it to go underneath the window; the wall is 195cm wise.

People seem to rate the IKEA Minnen bed? I like the extendability (and the price!) but aren’t you restricted by the extendable mattress?

The way I see it, I could fit the bed along the wall no problem, since the bed goes from 135cm to 206cm, but the Innerlig extendable mattress can be 130, 165 or 200cm, so we’d be stuck with a bed that can’t extend in that space beyond 165cm?

Unless there are other extendable mattresses of different sizes, I can’t figure out how people are getting the Minnen to work.

Can anyone help my poor confused brain?

I love this thread so much. It has everything I like, Ikea and completely anal organisational skillzzz! 😍

@haworthia yes you can only use the minnen at those lengths as the holes to fix it in place are in certain places. Would have been good to have been a bit longer, but the shelves I’ve put at the end fit perfectly, and the bed will be fine at that length for dd for years and years yet.

And @elspeth, having Aspergers comes in handy sometimes!

Thanks @Islands81

He’s not four yet, so tbh a bed at 165cm will do him for a while too! I’m just in two minds whether to opt for that and fill the remaining 30cm with something (which shelves do you have?) or just get a larger bed.

Lots of fantastic ideas here. I've been looking at getting a new bed for DS now he's almost 4, in the hope he'll actually sleep in it!

I was looking at a loft bed but a lot of people were saying it's a pain to change bed linen and we have very low ceilings. I hadn't considered putting a bed across the room and at 2.26m we definitely have space.

I love the bean bag idea and will pinch that for DDs room. I may have missed it, but where were they from?

I got a couple from eBay, about £7 delivered.

@Haworthia I got the shelves from Argos as they were only 20cm deep and would fit perfectly, there’s a link posted to them a little way upthread. The billy ones from ikea would have been too deep to fit.