Share your home storage hacks with IKEA - £300 IKEA voucher to be won

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Despite their size, children manage to take up more space in a home than many parents ever bargain for, making ample storage space an even more precious commodity than it was before children for many parents. With this in mind, IKEA would like to hear about the ways you make the most out of your storage spaces and how it’s made your life easier.

Here’s what IKEA has to say: “The house can often feel crowded after the festive period but a few small changes can make a big difference. Adding hooks and storage solutions at a lower height gives children the freedom to tidy things up by themselves. Remember children love spending time where you are so a small kitchen trolley can make a perfect mobile Art & Craft or play station that can be moved tidied away quickly.”

Maybe you have a creative way for storing lunchboxes or tips for fitting more into cupboards without them overflowing? Perhaps you swear by hangers on doors, boxes inside drawers or folding your clothes in a specific way? How have you used IKEA furniture or accessories to make the most of your space?

Whatever your home storage hacks, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 IKEA voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I use plastic boxes and shelving. We now have 6 large Billy bookcases. I recently bought the songesand bed with the drawers underneath and am really pleased with it. The drawers are huge and very sturdy with wood underneath to reinforce the base.

I'm planning on redoing the children's rooms next. DD has tons of stuff so will be getting a bed with storage underneath and a desk I've seen in IKEA with shelves above and underneath it. She has nice fabric boxes on her Billy bookcase for extra storage.

My son has less stuff but lots of clothes which because of his autism and dyspraxia he struggles to keep organised so I'm thinking of replacing his wardrobe with two chests of drawers.

I've also recently had a big clear out and used some nice cardboard record boxes to make a memory box and for storing photos.

Kallax and lots of them! And also some surreptitious recycling when the kids aren’t looking

Kallax units simply the best solution for clutter you don't want to bin

Large plastic stacker boxes in our awkward kitchen corner cupboard, for storing pan lids, silicone baking sheets, bullet blender and all its attachments, etc.

We used Pax and Platsa wardrobe carcasses and fittings and got a joiner to make doors and filler strips for the front. Voila, built in wardrobes for much much less. And flexible in future too.

We have no Kallax but we do have a row of large Hemnes bookshelves which have grown up books on the top shelves and kids books and toys on the lower shelves.

Variera boxes in the larder cupboard holding the veg, spices, everything really, it’s all neatly divided and easy to lift in and out. Also use them to help bring order to our deep freezer drawer.

Just off to check if Ikea have anything 70ish cm wide to fit in our alcove for shoe storage!

Over door coat hangers inside a large cupboard but suspended from a shelf slat above instead of over the door or fixed to a wall. Can store things above the coats on the shelf, slide the coat collection aside to get things from the back and still have space underneath the coats to put other things.

Kallax definitely. It is so handy to store all of those smaller toys and tuck it back in not worrying we will have lost something! We also use one is our LO wardrobe which provides handy draws

Ahh yes, when dd was younger, under bed drawers were great for quickly storing all those small items out of sight. Also saved on the job of having to vacuum under the bed :)

Narrow Pax in the bedroom with some shelves chopped off and adapted to make different sized spaces. A Hemnes shoe rack in the front entrance as it's so narrow that it's the only thing that doesn't get in the way. And Besta units to make shelves, plus a shoe rack and a seat with cushions between two lots of shelves, for putting on shoes. Drawer organisers. Several Billy bookcases with any baskets or boxes I could find that fit on them (not as big as Kallax so it's hard to get the right size!). I wanted to get a Brimnes cupboard that was only 22cm deep but it was discontinued the month before. Tiny flats need shallow furniture!

Ikea is my favourite shop, and I have Ikea products in every room.

I've used some 37cm deep Metod floor and wall cupboards up to the ceiling in the hall. The worktop was to artfully display decorative items but that hasn't quite happened. I've created a very shallow shelf at the top where I can use a cutlery drawer insert to put small bits and bobs and I slide this out like a drawer.

We moved our boiler from a cupboard in the kitchen into the utility room so I filled the empty cupboard with an 80cm and a 40cm Billy bookcase (the bigger one had to be built in situ). Now I have a fabulous larder.

Kitchen base units fit Kallax fabric boxes really well. My unit with the inaccessible back corner houses four kallax boxes that slide in and out allowing me to use all the space. It works really well with lighter things- baking tins in one, lunch boxes/plastic bottles in another etc.

I use the large 4x4 Kallax to store ALL the toys. Then the 1x4 Kallax on it’s side to make a play surface and I rotate the toys into use on here. Best thing is it all goes away at bedtime and makes the room look reasonable! (Bar the toy kitchen)

Lots of Kallax and also having little storages boxes in cupboards. That way everything has a home and it keeps everything nice and organised.

i used the curtain rails across my eves in the attic (from ikea) and hang all occasional clothes (fancy dress/ xmas)

little boxes inside of draws for organisation

ikea white bins in the cupboard as washing baskets

TRONES shoe storage in the kids room for their pyjamas and underwear so they can can easily get to it without reaching the drawers. Also means they can put their own laundry away as it's so accessible

I use the HEMNES shoe storage unit for document storage. It's a good size for files and papers, avd it's easy to flick through folders, like a shallow filing cabinet. This one is really useful, it's made use of a space that was too narrow for anything else, and keeps files out of sight.

KOMPLEMENT plastic box drawers are the perfect size to fit under beds. We can get 6 of them under a single. Great for storing bedding, out of season clothes, and toys in the ones at the front.

Our twins room is tiny but we need a sofa bed in there so we have a very small Ikea sofa bed, and in the alcove a Stuva bench which holds bedding for it, and makes a little reading corner for them.

Elsewhere we have Kallax all over the place. We have one in the dining room, the twins know which toys are in which box so they can dip in and out - one has a visual impairment and it helps him to know where to find what he wants.

So many brilliant ideas here!

The shoe storing hanging little cube thing I bought in ikea has transformed how I store my shoes in my wardrobe. It was bought many years ago for a few pounds and my wardrobe has looked so much tidier ever since!

My under stairs space was an utter mess. Lots of tools and household items...Could never find what I wanted. Bought a trofost unit that I painted and organised all the drawers. Now I know exactly where everything is and I love it so much!!!

Spice racks used in the kitchen to store multiple recipe books!

Spice racks used in the kids bedrooms for displaying kids picture books!
I REALLY like spice racks!

We are ten minutes from an IKEA so our house is about 80% after a refurb. A bookcase on top of a chest of drawers saves space in our room. Staggered kallax under the stairs, a 4x1 kallax as my bedside. 2 socktopus' (socktopi?) for underwear drying hooked on a curtain rail. And the small flat pack cardboard box with lid has been massively useful for filing and packing, and storing in the bottom of wardrobes.
A label slot for the fabric kallax boxes would be good

Also kallax mad here. We have also got all the stuva nursery furniture and find the deep drawers and storage chests great for our two kids under 3.

Another one with Kallax units everywhere- one for each of the kids for their clothes and we use it as a nappy changing station on top. Another big one for toy storage. Dh has just recycled a huge industrial fridge from a local cafe that were throwing it away and he's turning it into a work bench and storage for the shed!

Pax wardrobes are brilliant. My kids both have one, which we could design and fit out internally with the Pax accessories to suit the kind of storage each of them needed.

We have Kallax and Billy bookcases in every room. They're so versatile and can be customised to match all of my decor.