Where do you keep the following?

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Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc

Non everyday shoes

Bike helmets

Suitcases/overnight bsgs

Out of season coats/jackets

These are currently my areas of doom and i need to reorganise my storage.

I was in the middle of posting a very similar thread yesterday but had to stop thinking about it because it gives me brain ache.

In our house, all of them apart from helmets get stuffed into the horrible old wardrobes in my bedroom. Not ideal, so watching with interest for ideas!

We have no spare duvets or pillows, airbeds and sleeping bags are in the loft.
Shoes are in the bedrooms.
My sons bike helmet is in his room un worn as he hates bikes .
Suitcases/bags in the loft.
Coats/jackets in the wardrobes.

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc -At the bottom of my wardrobe - not advised (they used to be in the airing cupboard, when I still had one)

Non everyday shoes - under stairs cupboard

Bike helmets -other under stairs cupboard, but they are sometimes hung up in the hall.

Suitcases/overnight bags- under my bed, but I'm thinking of moving them to the garage

Out of season coats/jackets - my wardrobe.

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc

All duvets/pillows are in cupboards at the top of our (fully-fitted) wardrobes. Sleepings bags - DC seem to have managed to lose all of them, so not a storage worry any more!

Non everyday shoes

All shoes in the bottom of my wardrobe, the less/rarely worn ones gradually get shoved to the back. Daily/frequently worn ones are stuffed under a small table in our spare room - which is where our wardrobes are; we haven't got round to getting wardrobes in our new bedroom - in our loft conversion - yet

DH keeps his shoes underneath the dressing table.

Bike helmets

The shed

Suitcases/overnight bsgs

Again, in one of the wardrobes

Out of season coats/jackets

We have a coat cupboard in the hall where all these are kept; DC tend to keep whatever they are currently wearing in their own rooms, either hanging on the back of their door or over the back of their chairs.

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc
Space bags for big things.

Non everyday shoes
This is our downfall!!!
My special shoes in the wardrobe, others just with everyday shoes.
eg ballet shoes stay in the right bag

Bike helmets
hanging over bike handlebars

Suitcases/overnight bsgs
under bed - doesn't everyone?!
or in loft

Out of season coats/jackets
space bags in loft

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc and out of season coats/jackets are in those vacuum bags inside suitcases/overnight bsgs in the loft.

Bike helmets hang on the handle bars of the offending bike.

Shoes/boots etc that are not in every day use and in shoe storage hangers in the wardrobes of the wearer.

Only have one spare single duvet amd pillow - under stairs.cupboard

All shoes.on bottom.shelf / base of wardrobe

No bikes = no helmets

Suitcases - understairs cupboard
Overnight bags - on top of wardrobes

Out of season coats - I live in the North East so all coats have the potential to be needed on any given.day of the year. We therefore have a thick coat, a thin coat/jacket and a waterproof each on a hook

I think my biggest headache is the non everyday shoes. There are lots and lots of them, all of which I desperately NEED. I've got shoe racks on the back of wardrobe doors, a big zippy shoe storage bag under the bed and still a mountain of them shoved in the bottom of a wardrobe

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc
In cupboard under eves in loft bedroom

Non everyday shoes
Under bed in original boxes (its one of those beds with a mattress that lifts up)

Bike helmets
Loft cupboard

Suitcases/overnight bsgs
Loft bathroom

Out of season coats/jackets
Loft Bedroom on a clothes rack

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc
In the loft

Non everyday shoes
In the appropriate wardrobe

Bike helmets
In the garage

Suitcases/overnight bags
Suitcases in the loft. Overnight bags under the spare bed

Out of season coats/jackets
In the wardrobe in the spare bedroom

• Spare duvets/pillows/airbed - big storage chest table thingy in the front room (where guests sleep)
• sleeping bags - under beds
• Non everyday shoes - under beds
• Bike helmet - DS' on top of his wardrobe (prob not good, out of easy reach)
• Suitcases/overnight bsgs - loft and under beds
• Out of season coats/jackets - wardrobes.

I have a huge loft but I forget things exist as soon as I put them in there, and it is such a faff to get anything out...

You have a loft bathroom ceegeebee?!

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc-duvets in hot press, airbed in attic

Non everyday shoes- all kids shoes in their baskets in the utilty roo, mine and dhs in the bottom of our wardrobes

Bike helmets-utlity room

Suitcases/overnight bsgs- attic

Out of season coats/jackets-wardrobes or attic

My attic is floored and has a ladder so easy to access, its great, I can dump loads of crap up there :)

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc -

^duvets & pillows are in vacuum bags in the airing cupboard.
Sleeping bags live in the top cupboard of a wardrobe in the DC's room6

Non everyday shoes

In wardrobes, and sports shoes, walking boots, wellies etc are in a big box by the back door

Bike helmets hang on bike handlebars

Suitcases/overnight bsgs in under-bed drawers or in the loft

Out of season coats/jackets in wardrobes

Cupboard in our bedroom, apart from DS bike helmet which is with the everyday shoe/bag collection in the hallway.

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc
In the small cupboard in our bedroom

Non everyday shoes
With the everyday shoes

Bike helmets
Dont have bikes, but when I do get one, probably with the coat

Suitcases/overnight bsgs
In the dining room still full with things from when we moved 5 months ago

Out of season coats/jackets
With the in season coats/jackets

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc

• I have a handy big cupboard next to my bedroom and these go in there

Non everyday shoes

• Both me and my DD have loads of shoes, they are in bedrooms on shoe holders, in shoe sections in wardrobes, and I have some rattan/woven little ottoman/storage box type things, they are are also in two of those, one in the living room and one in the dining room.

Bike helmets

• the only one we own is for some strange reason, on a bookshelf.

Suitcases/overnight bsgs

• on top of my wardrobe but i wish i had somewhere else to put them

Out of season coats/jackets

• in the same cupboard as the spare duvet/airbeds

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc

Airing cupboard on landing along with sheets, towels etc. I don't have masses though

Non everyday shoes

In my wardrobe. All of DS's live on a mat by the front door. He's only got 4 pairs though!

Bike helmets

DS's helmet lives with his bike in our lean-to (runs down the side of the house and is a v useful storage space!)

Suitcases/overnight bsgs

DS's is in his room, the rest are in the loft.

Out of season coats/jackets

Some in the lean-to but I've noticed that some were getting bleached by the sun so I've moved most of mine to exP's old wardrobe

So, my storage solutions are a) have a lean-to and b) get rid of 1 member of your household...they perhaps would not work for everyone!

Spare duvets/pillows/airbed/sleeping bags etc
Space Bags and then in wicker trunk at top of stairs

Non everyday shoes
In a 1920 steamer trunk at bottom of stairs

Bike helmets (well Motor bike in our house)
on shelf above coat hooks

Suitcases/overnight bags
Under spare bed

Out of season coats/jackets
space Bagged and in smaller wicker trunk at top of stairs, summer clothes get swapped into them in the winter.

Hmm I'm not so different then... Was hoping someone would list something that made me think 'oh of course!' but unfortunately it seems my storage places are fairly standard . A spare room and a car would help maybe but until then I'll just have to put up with stuffed full cupboards!

Spare pillows etc - one set in a big zip up bag next to sofa bed in DD's room. Rest in the only built in wardrobe in the house, in stair headroom in DS's room.
Non everyday shoes - smart/party/nice
Bid - under bed; sporty - in garage
Bike helmets - hooks in garage
No suitcases, only big holdalls - on top if wardrobe, in big cupboard in DS's room again.
Out if season coats - hooks in garage and big cupboard in DS's room.