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Just how much can you fit: storage ideas for small spaces

Side-by-side PAX wardrobes with grey-beige REINSVOLL doors. One wardrobe is open, revealing neatly organized clothes inside.

Organized storage, handy for display or stowing away

The most important part of a well-organized home is having a place for everything. Whether you show it or hide it, the key is that you can always find it.

936 sheets of music

“Important papers.” Somewhere in almost every home is a pile of documents just yearning to be organized. The good news is that a smaller drawer unit like HELMER can be a real help. Each drawer has a slot for a label, so you can put things in their place and find what you are looking for in seconds, while castors mean you can wheel it wherever you please.

A black HELMER drawer unit on castors stands at an angle next to a sofa. Two lit brass lamps are on a shelf behind the sofa.

7 mouthpieces, 4 harmonicas, 18 singles and 12 sets of strings

When creating a home for your collections, you can really make storage work for you. The KLÄMMEMACKA desk organizer goes beyond its usual job description in this home, storing smaller music-related items. With different compartments of varied sizes, it’s a musical toolbox ready to jump into action when a string snaps.

A natural-plywood KLÄMMEMACKA desk organizer stands on a rug with its sections parted, revealing musical accessories inside.

15 journals (plus thousands of memories)

What happens to the things that you know you'll need one day, but not on the regular? Rather than pushing them to the back of a cupboard, you could consider a KUGGIS storage box or two. They’re lidded, which not only protects your possessions from dust, dirt and damage, but also makes them stackable. The KUGGIS series come in an assortment of sizes and colors to suit both your home and whatever it is you're storing.

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Two turquoise KUGGIS storage boxes holding notebooks and paper stand stacked on a rug beneath a BILLY glass-door bookcase.
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14 winter tops or 6 chunky jumpers

Rolling is the new folding. Not only does it optimize the space you have available, but it keeps wrinkles and creases down to a minimum. It’s a great trick when you’re travelling and works just as well when packing away seasonal clothing or bedding in a SKUBB storage case. Store yours under the bed or in your wardrobe and pull out just as easily the next time you need it.

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On a textile surface stands a dark-grey SKUBB storage case filled with neatly organized, rolled-up garments.
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23 nail polishes

What color will it be today? The multi-level SAXBORGA storage box has been designed to hold virtually all the small things you use often, like nail-care products, make-up, jewelry or contact lenses. Not only can it be picked up and moved around the house, but it also comes with its own cork-mounted mirror for anytime-anywhere lipstick checks.

A bathroom windowsill with a SAXBORGA storage box with mirror, filled with and surrounded by make-up accessories.

A home for all your things

Pack all your bits and bobs away in any one (or three!) of a wide assortment of storage boxes and baskets. Big or small, round or rectangular: if you’ve got something to store, there's a just-right spot for it.