How do you save storage in a small bedroom?

Got a small bedroom? We hear you. When your bed takes up most of the floor, eking out storage space is a never-ending task.

Unfortunately, we can’t beat physics like Dr. Who’s Tardis (it’s bigger on the inside), so we need to use a little creativity to save storage. Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to make your small bedroom work for you.

This article will help you save storage in your small bedroom with several practical tips you can try out immediately.

Let’s jump in!

Get an ottoman bed

First thing’s first, let’s talk about your bed, or rather, the space it takes up. 

Standard bed frames take up too much space in small bedrooms with protruding legs and frames. Ottoman beds are a far better choice because the base is as broad and as long as the mattress, saving precious inches.

However, the biggest reason to get an ottoman bed is it has a lift-up base, so the whole area underneath the mattress is storage space.

Depending on which configuration suits you best, you can get ottomans that lift from the foot of the bed or the side. The base lifts on hydraulic struts, so raising it is easy, and it’ll stay put while you tinker around in there.

With new furniture, build up!

A common problem in small bedrooms is too deep and too wide furniture. With bedside tables, dressing tables, and chests of drawers, it is more efficient to go for taller, slimmer furniture to free up floor space.

The great thing about taller furniture is that you can add a drawer or two, so what you lose in width and depth, you gain with vertical space.

 Move stuff to the walls 

Shelves and wall baskets are your best friends to save storage space. You can move all sorts to them, including shoes, ornaments, and books.

Most people have shelves in their bedroom, but they miss a trick by not tiering the shelves to use space efficiently. Tiered shelves add vertical and horizontal storage, giving you a place to put things out of the way.

A hanging shoe organiser is perfect for shoes and other bits and bats. These have pockets for stuff, and you can hang them on the wall or behind your door. For jewellery, get a wall-mounted jewellery organiser.

Get ruthless with clutter

We all accumulate clutter, but some of us struggle to get rid of it more than others. The solution? Review your bedroom items every month and get ruthless.

The most common clutter items are toiletries and make-up, which accumulate via gifts and spontaneous supermarket buys. Things you don’t use can be discarded or given away to people who will use them.

Shoes you no longer wear, books you no longer read, and ornaments gathering dust can be sold on auction marketplaces and apps, or you can give them away. You can recycle items with no value or put them somewhere else.

Make clever use of seating 

If you need a seat in your bedroom, buffets with in-built storage and storage benches are great ways to increase storage space.

If you want to increase usable floor space, get a beanbag. Beanbags are super comfortable, and you can easily squish them out of sight.

Make clever use of odd boxes

You can use odd boxes to store hats and gloves, coursework/homework, video games, toys, and other random stuff.

The key to making odd boxes work in small bedrooms is to give them a permanent home that does not eat into floor space.

For example, you could put them on top of your wardrobe, inside your wardrobe, inside your ottoman bed, or underneath your bed. There’s a box in every conceivable size. We like Useful storage boxes because they seem to last forever.