I am SUCH a sucker for storage

[shonaspurtle]

So, we went to IKEA today and bought a Trofast unit for ds's toys.

So I've put it together, all toys are tidied away and it looks way better than the previous big plastic box in the corner, but...

It just hasn't changed my life in the way I Believed it would. I really am such a sucker for storage solutions. I think that everything would be perfect and my flat would be twice the size if I could just find the perfect set of shelves.

Does anyone share my delusion?

Ok. Just me then.

No, not just you! I am yet to find 'the perfect storage' for my DS's room. It's never quite right. I have been through:

• stackable plastic crates

-stackable seagrass/wicker baskets

• a version of the Trofast system, but from another shop (still in use, and by far the best, but still not quite organised and tidy enough for me )

I'm now getting a carpenter friend to build some 'special' shelves and a cupboard in DS's room and I just know I will be disappointed when it doesn't instantly change my life .

I used to have a thing about underbed storage, too, but have exorcised that particular demon. Oh, and am obsessed with finding The Perfect Hallway Storage (for shoes, tennis rackets, that sort of thing)...

Oooooh, bespoke storage

i don't like trofast. there. i said it.

I foolishly thought that after years of temporary hanging rails and shelves in the bedroom that the floor to ceiling, whole wall of built in wardrobes and cupboards would change my life....alas, it hasn't.

I'm already planning what I can get DP to build next

Blasphemer

Gah. Not holding out much hope. We had a 'bespoke' wardrobe 'system' built in our bedroom in our old house at great expense. I bloody hated it within weeks. Too much shelf space hidden behind fuck-off great doors - not a good thing. I ended up with 8 shelf-fulls of scrunched up, unsorted clothes hidden behind some shiny designer sliding doors. Our bedrooms looked like a gay Danish designer lived there....until you opened the wardrobe. Then it looked like we had been burgled.

The buckets aren't pretty, I will grant you. And not quite as capacious as I'd hoped.

Because we don't actually need new storage, we need A New House.

MrsMattie -ours hasn't yet got the doors on so we have the "just burgled" look

I am mad woman for storage but I have got it right.

Secret is not to have too much crap in first place.Thus I have myriad 'storage solutions' all of which are empty.

lol at the burgled look.
so do we, shona. i just don't want to leave the west end. but i fear we must...

I love shelves!

Shelves get dusty thoguh which pains me.

I love storage, but nothing ever ever works.....
I was hoping the built in wardrobes i yearn for in my bedroom might transform my life when i eventually get them, but obviously not

I agree moondog.

the storage solution has to be tardis like, look good, not cost too much and not need dusting!