Help me design my storage cupboard (with diagrams please!)

[thenewaveragebear1983]

I have a storage room being created as part of a garage conversion. Floor space will be 280 cm by 100cm, and it’s 250 cm high. I need to be able to actually get in there so I think storage along the back wall is the way to go.

I’m currently working on kallax units, a shoe rack from Amazon, and a couple of wider shelves and a coat rail along the 1m wall above the shoe shelves.

any better suggestions? What have I not realised I need? I don’t need to store hoover/ironing board in here. Go wild!

nb. Diagram is not to scale 😆

What kinds of things will you be storing in there? And how often will you want to access those items?

I think that would change what I'd suggest, significantly.

It will be our only ‘garage’ type storage so tools, tool box, paint and decorating stuff, I’d like to offload a bit of kitchen stuff into there….
plus football boots and other shoes/boots/wellies, maybe coats, maybe cleaning stuff.

Go as tall as you can. Things that you might use once a year can go to the top

I would do the whole thing in IKEA Ivar with deep shelves. That gives much more flexibility than Kallax and you can have everything in the same shelf system

Measure any large items to what shelf dimensions you need. What sort of tools for example... a lawnmower will need more space than a screwdriver!

Have anything the kids need low down.

It won’t be any shed things like lawnmowers or garden stuff as we have a shed.

I’ve not used IKEA ivar shelving before, I will look at the dimensions, thanks for the suggestion

I would use wall mounted racking with flexible shelves - Kallax is very restricting as everything you store needs to be square and it just isn’t in reality - I have a similar cupboard and use high up shelves for realy useful boxes with Clíp lids for things like Christmas decoration, clothes for the kids to grow into, camping stuff, picnic boxes, then heavier things on lower shelves: seasonal kitchen items, tool kit, drill, etc…

I also have a section for the things you need to grab easily - batteries, light bulbs, super glue etc - all in clear boxes with labels.

We had Kallax before, and even basic things didn’t fit - the big Le Creuset pan, the Christmas tree stand, our tool boxes is rectangular so stuck out of the kallax…

if you wanted, you could have the kallax which is two boxes high longways on the floor underneath the other shelving.

or could you get a shoe rack which is on the floor across the width of the shelving , underneath your first shelf? (We have wine racks underneath ours)

Yes I have seen a good shoe storage on Amazon that would fit, and have a clothes rail at 90 degrees against the short wall above it, so I can hang long and short coats. I think we will do some kallax. We have a loft for Christmas decs and kids clothes etc anyway. I have kitchen surplus which is currently in kallax boxes in the utility anyway, that will get me some space. And then I think some more flexible shelving for the longer/less boxy stuff.